by David Bovet | Mar 25, 2020 | Briefs, Operations, Supply Chain Management
Dramatic images on TV and our own personal experience at the grocery raise the very real question: Will food, other consumer goods and medical necessities be available when and where we need them? The coronavirus has put a stark spotlight on the nation’s producers and...
by Dave Frentzel | Feb 25, 2020 | Briefs, Due Diligence, Investor Advisory, Operations, Supply Chain Management
In our August 2019 Supply Chain Contingency Planning Brief, the timely “call to action” was the US-China trade war. Today COVID-19 is the greater concern to our supply chains and more tragically to human health. These might be considered black swan events; thus,...
by Dave Frentzel | Aug 3, 2019 | Briefs, Due Diligence, Investor Advisory, Operations, Supply Chain Management, Value Creation
Midwestern soybean farmers and Silicon Valley hi-tech companies are miles apart, yet both currently face a common supply chain crisis with limited options: their high dependency on China. Could better contingency planning have helped both weather this storm? Several...
by Dave Frentzel | Feb 2, 2019 | Briefs, Due Diligence, Supply Chain Management, Transportation & Logistics
Shippers have many options when choosing a third-party logistics (3PL) provider. Even with industry consolidations, there are thousands of companies that offer logistics services – brokers, freight forwarders, contract logistics companies, tech-based startups, and so...
by Dave Frentzel | Sep 17, 2018 | Briefs, Strategy, Supply Chain Management, Transportation & Logistics
Third-party logistics (3PL) providers and their customers have yet another huge wave of industry innovation and growth to ride. The first wave in the modern era of 3PLs in the US began in the 1980s with trucking deregulation, business process outsourcing, and the...
by Dave Frentzel | Feb 16, 2018 | Briefs, Supply Chain Management, Transportation & Logistics
The most well-known and spectacular (or some might say highly speculative) instance of a blockchain distributed ledger technology (DLT) is bitcoin, the cryptocurrency platform. Yet when one takes a broader view of this emerging technology, supply chain applications...
