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Art of Supply — 227 episodes

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All Forecasts Are Wrong W/ Michael Murray

2

182,000 Pounds of Nectarines Too Valuable to Sell

3

The Ships Are Lying About Where They Are

4

Stablecoins Have Their Moment in the Real Economy W/ Tanner Taddeo

5

3 Questions We Can't Answer About Amazon LTL

6

The Supply Planning Paradox: Why Bigger Budgets Don't Buy Better Outcomes

7

Too big to merge? Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern Try Again

8

FedEx Freight's Independence Day

9

Red Lobster's Comeback Gamble

10

Why is nobody talking about China's new supply chain regulations?

11

Consumption Challenges at Boston Beer Company

12

Social Value as Strategy in Public Sector Procurement W/ Guy Battle

13

Pricing the Last Mile: Amazon, USPS, and the Fight for Profitability

14

UPS Picks Profitability Over Volume, and The Teamsters Push Back

15

Everyone Has a Role in Growing the Value Chain W/ Andrew Quincey

16

From Ports to Geopolitics: Protecting U.S. Cargo Worldwide with Chairman Laura DiBella

17

Building Ethical Leaders in Freight: Inside TIA's Freight Leadership Lab

18

Foreign-trade Zones Explained & Applied

19

Brewing Uncertainty: The Coffee Supply Chain Shock

20

The Panama Canal Power Struggle

21

How iRobot's Supply Chain Became Its Last Resort

22

National Security Starts in the Supply Chain

23

How a $3M Company Destroyed $17B in Freight Market Value

24

Sanctioned at Sea: Addressing the Shadow Fleet

25

Freight Capacity v. Paperwork & Politics

26

One Railroad to Rule Them All? Inside the Union Pacific–Norfolk Southern Merger

27

Cautious Optimism in the Suez Canal

28

Tracking the Logistics of a $400K Lobster Heist

29

Enlightenment Thinking in an Age of Disruption

30

Incoming! 10 Supply Chain Predictions for 2026

31

Reshoring Success at GE Appliances Shaded by Tariff Fraud Allegations

32

UPS Gambles on Gig Workers

33

Rubber Stamped CDL Regulations

34

OceanGate and the Limits of Supply Base Innovation

35

Asset Optimization Isn't a Destination – It's a Discipline

36

Inside the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics: Harnessing Creative Destruction

37

Intermodal by Design: How Coordination Drives Efficiency W/ Anne Reinke

38

The Soybean Economy: What's at Stake in the U.S.–China Trade Talks

39

Kodiak's Road to IPO: AI, Defense Contracts, and the Future of Autonomous Trucking

40

Reimagining Reshoring With the Help of 3D Printing

41

Truck Drivers, Trade Deals, and Denials: Sorting Fact from Fiction in Nebraska

42

Target Steps Back from 'Stores as Hubs' Digital Fulfillment

43

Honk If You're Qualified: Understanding CDL Safety

44

Can Apple Reshore the iPhone?

45

Shipments Under Siege: The Growing Problem of Cargo Theft

46

Lost at Sea: Can the U.S. regain maritime dominance?

47

From Billable Hours to Measurable Impact: The GSA's Push for Outcome-Based Contracts

48

Coming Unchained to Embrace Global Supply Networks W/ Tim Richardson

49

What Restaurants Can Teach Us About Procurement & Supply Chain

50

Making the Pivot to AI-enabled Global Sourcing W/ Anthony Sardain

51

Remembering Fred Smith: FedEx Founder & Supply Chain Visionary

52

How Transportation & Logistics Companies Are Tackling Network Security W/ Ken Rutsky

53

Down but Not Out: California's Fight to Regulate Emissions

54

A Procurement Crime at Intel: Loopholes and Lessons Learned

55

Prioritizing Dispute Prevention Over Problem Solving

56

High Velocity Lessons on Lobbying and Trade W/ Samir Kapadia

57

Tariffs as a Girder for Domestic Fabricated Steel W/ Stephen Capone and Hollie Noveletsky

58

Semiconductor CHIPS, Checks, and Challenges

59

How U.S. Tariffs Are Reshaping Global Freight W/ Judah Levine

60

Supply Chains & Second Chances: Human Trafficking Aftercare

61

Building a U.S. Solar Supply Chain

62

Manufacturing Labor Market Insights in an Uncertain World

63

Beef with the Big 4: McDonald's vs. the Meat Monopoly

64

In Defense of Lean Thinking W/ Thomas Goldsby

65

Scope 3 Showdown: Green Century v. Ford

66

LTL Shakeup: Will Amazon join the fray?

67

Who owns the Panama Canal?

68

Decoding the DOGE Savings Calculator

69

Investing in People-powered Safety in Food Manufacturing W/ Nathan Walts

70

East and Gulf Coast Port Strike – Part 2

71

A Narrow Path Towards Noninflationary Tariffs

72

Lessons in Listening from Joe Rogan and Charlamagne tha God

73

Who will decide the future of EV trucking?

74

Dylan v. Goliath: The Freight Essentials RICO Case

75

Misfortune on 34th Street: Accounting Issues at Macy's

76

Nebraska v. California: The EV Trucking Transition

77

The Dawn of a New Era in U.S. Trade Policy

78

Reenvisioning Robotics for Warehouse Optimization

79

Re-reading Good to Great at the Start of a New Year

80

Supply Chain Stories to Watch at the Start of 2025

81

Solving Supply Chain Puzzles: Insights from a Year of Interviews

82

Supply Chain Forecast: Volatile with Tim Richardson

83

In Defense of Outliers

84

Walking a Mile in Another Supply Chain's Shoes W/ Alex Jennings

85

BONUS: Indictment in the 2022 Tractor Trailer Human Smuggling Case

86

Liverwurst, Listeria, and Liability: Food Safety at Boar's Head

87

The Power of Visualization in Freight Optimization and Resilience with Ruud van Dijk

88

Consolidating the USPS Final Mile

89

Creating a B2C to B to C Improvement Cycle at Walmart Business w/ Ashley Hubka

90

Part 4: Head-to-Head Comparison of Candidate Policies

91

Part 3: Republican Candidate Former President Donald J. Trump

92

Part 2: Democratic Candidate Vice President Kamala Harris

93

Part 1: Playing Politics with Supply Chains

94

Tips for Surviving in a Brave New World

95

East and Gulf Coast Port Strike - Part 1

96

Supply Chains as Business in Action w/ Thomas Goldsby

97

Developing and Deploying Digital Empathy

98

Evaluating India as a Viable Alternative to China w/ Samir Kapadia

99

Advancements & Adjustments in the GE Appliances Supply Chain

100

Proposed Patent Rule Changes and their Impact on Innovation w/ Wen Xie

101

The (Lost) Art of Accepting Criticism

102

Freight Electrification as a Service w/ Ian Rust

103

Fishing for Truth in the Seafood Supply Chain

104

Orchestrating the Chaos of Retail Fulfillment w/ Mike Robinson

105

Will FedEx Freight hit the open road?

106

The Great Supply Train Robbery

107

De Minimis: Supply Chain Trifles the Law Should be Concerned With

108

Chasing a Common Supply Chain Objective: Saving Lives w/ Adrian Ristow and David Canarutto

109

Project Last Mile: A Story Worth Retelling

110

Ultimate Endless Real Estate Costs at Red Lobster

111

Former Pioneer Oil CEO Scott Sheffield - Colluder or Scapegoat?

112

Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act: Progress or Setback?

113

Sending a Powerful Message About America's Pharmaceutical Independence

114

Symptoms of Disruption in the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

115

Searching for the Limits of Employee Activism at Google

116

The Surging Problem of AI Energy Consumption

117

Replacing Good Intentions with Good Outcomes at Whistl

118

Examining the Practicality of the EV Truck Mandate

119

Playing the "China Card" in U.S. Ports

120

Net Zero in New York? JBS Accused of Greenwashing

121

Even with +1, China is still #1

122

What You Don't Know Can Hertz You

123

Treasure Hunting with TJX

124

Three Strikes for the New Baseball Uniform

125

Surviving the Supply Chain Arena

126

Time to Return to Just-in-Time?

127

Case Dismissed: Byron Allen v. McDonald's

128

Killer App: The UK Post Office Scandal

129

Savings v. Safety in Aircraft Manufacturing

130

The Drone Final Mile Becomes Reality

131

Weight and Value x Distance: Studying Global Supply Chain Use and Cost

132

High Stakes in the Red Sea

133

Introducing Art of Supply

134

2023 Dial P for Procurement Year in Review

135

Troubling Times for Electric Trucking

136

Reading FedEx Ground the RICO Act

137

Will the world fiddle while Bangladesh burns?

138

The White House Council on Supply Chain Resilience

139

Where are they now?

140

Supply Chain Post Mortem: Convoy

141

Is it the most wonderful time of the supply chain year?

142

Coca-Cola's Project Last Mile

143

The LEGO Sustainability Saga

144

Negotiating Lessons from Hollywood Labor

145

Smucker's + Hostess = Supply Chain Synergy

146

Books As a Proxy for Free Thought

147

The Competitive Expectations Behind the Google Antitrust Trial

148

Getting a Kiss From a World Class Supply Chain

149

The Cold, Hard Facts About Cold Chain Logistics

150

Nerves of U.S. Steel

151

Dodging the Urban Doom Loop

152

Who is to blame for Yellow's demise?

153

Restoring Business Imagination Through Nature

154

The Problem with Performative ESG

155

Tesla Takes the Socialist Pledge

156

Public Education as Corporate Social Responsibility

157

Tracking Procurement from Industry 1.0 - 5.0

158

Russia's Wagner Group as Rogue Supplier

159

R.I.P. Great Resignation (2020-2023)

160

Meet Digit - The Future of Warehouse Automation

161

Are contracts obscuring U.S. child labor in your supply chain?

162

Dove's Real Beauty Campaign: Evolution of a Social Message

163

Artistic Revolutions: Comparing the Impact of Photography and Generative AI

164

The Laws of Supply and Demand Meat at Tyson Foods

165

A GAAP in Judgement at Kraft Heinz

166

JPMorgan Chase Stops the Financial Contagion

167

Supply Chain Cyber Attack: Expeditors and iRobot

168

Bed Bath & Beyond's Decline from from Superstore to No-more

169

Negotiating The Big One: UPS and the Teamsters Labor Union

170

The Power and Danger of Asking Good Questions

171

Loss Aversion Theory and the Collapse of SVB

172

Case Dismissed: Spencer Patton Prevails Over FedEx

173

Data and Derailment in East Palestine, OH

174

The Next Phase of Dial P for Procurement Begins

175

Real World Advice from a Life Well-Lived

176

2022 Procurement & Supply Chain News in Review

177

Speculating About the Future of Taiwan

178

Winter is Coming: Trouble in the Energy Supply Chain

179

Tracking Recent Layoffs: It's Getting Bad Out There

180

NATO Discovers a Classic Strategic Sourcing Dilemma

181

The Downside of Supplier Diversity at McDonald's

182

Can the EU Function as a Single Market in an Emergency?

183

The Rise and Fall of Apple Procurement VP Tony Blevins

184

Tentatively Making the Trains Run on Time

185

FedEx Ground's Contractor Woes

186

Banned Books Week 2022: Fighting for Intellectual Freedom

187

Taking a Thoughtful Approach to Relentless Improvement Featuring Tom Burke with ButcherBox

188

Intent v. Effect of Uyghur Forced Labor Regulation

189

Looking at ESG Investing with a Critical Eye

190

Can These Supply Relationships be Saved? Featuring Philip Ideson

191

Sustained Empathetic Leadership in Turbulent Times

192

Does the CHIPS Act provide the Helpful Incentives the U.S. needs?

193

Why is Fuel So Expensive?

194

Guarding Private Incentive to Innovate featuring Patent Attorney Wen Xie

195

Refillable v. Recyclable: The EPA Takes on Domestic Production

196

Heavy Traffic and Human Trafficking at the U.S. Border

197

American Supply Chain Revolution

198

Leverage on 18 Wheels: The South Korean Driver Strike

199

The Resurgence and Economic Impact of Supplier Diversity Programs in America Featuring Ken Yearwood with McKinsey

200

Race Against the Clock: Getting the Grain Out of Ukraine

201

Is the WTO Jeopardizing Innovation by Failing to Protect IP?

202

Losing the Plot: Social Mission v. Business Fundamentals

203

Does it Matter if We Go Into a Recession?

204

Hunting for the True Source of the Baby Formula Shortage

205

Preparing for the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act and Regulations Featuring Constantine Limberakis with riskmethods

206

Elon Musk Bought Twitter. What Happens Next?

207

Hey CEOs – Love the One You're With

208

Don't say Digital: A Hitchhiker's Guide to the New Economy

209

Boots on the Ground in Shanghai, China feat. Jeffrey Goldstein, President of ONWARD Global

210

Are Inflation Expectations a Self-Fulfilling Prophesy?

211

Escaping the Clutches of the Old Economy by Building Supply Ecosystems with Koray Kose and Rik Vera

212

Building Out Business Diversity Programs with Constance Jones from NMSDC

213

Does the Development of Expertise Naturally Lead Us to Fail?

214

Corporate Involvement in Ukraine in the Era of ESG

215

The Prepared will Prevail: Investing in Collaborative Supply Chain Resilience

216

Supplier Diversity Comes to the Forefront: The 2021 State of Supplier Diversity Report w Neeraj Shah

217

P is Also for Payments and (Credit Card) Processing with Jim Luff and Kris Lance

218

Delivering an Experience that Builds Strong Relationships

219

Move Faster, Save More, and Look Better Doing It! With Anthony Clervi and Kris Lance from Una

220

Collaborating with Suppliers Through Challenging Times

221

The Intersection of International Culture and Talent in Procurement, Guest Jacinta Taliauli

222

Telling a Human Story About Digital Procurement Transformation

223

Approaching Procurement with a Growth Mindset

224

Positioning for Success at the Intersection of Transformation, Risk, & Technology with Koray Kose & Philip Ideson

225

Driving Innovation Through the Supplier Experience with Quentin Roach and Costas Xyloyiannis

226

Rethinking Supplier (Information) Management with Jeffrey Ostrander and Ragnar Lorentzen

227

Dial P for Procurement- Featuring Supply Chain Humanitarians Anna McGovern & Kathy Fulton