AOP PodcastAOS Podcast 2024 U.S. Presidential Election Special Series There are two weeks to go until the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election. Interest, speculation, and tension have been building all…Kelly BarnerOctober 20, 2024
AOP PodcastAOS Podcast 2024 U.S. Presidential Election Special Series There are two weeks to go until the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election. Interest, speculation, and tension have been building all…Kelly BarnerOctober 20, 2024
AOS PodcastDigitizationSupply ChainTrends Tips for Surviving in a Brave New World In 1932, Aldous Huxley published the book Brave New World. At the time, the actual world was perched between World…Kelly BarnerOctober 17, 2024
AOS PodcastDigitizationRisk ManagementSupply Chain East and Gulf Coast Port Strike – Part 1 “Let me be clear: we don’t want any form of semi-automation or full automation. We want our jobs—the jobs we…Kelly BarnerOctober 10, 2024
AOS PodcastSourcing & ContractingSupply ChainTrends Supply Chains as Business in Action We know supply chains are complex, but to truly understand how complex they are, and how they reached this point,…Kelly BarnerOctober 3, 2024
AOS PodcastData & AnalyticsProcurement Transformation Developing and Deploying Digital Empathy I pre-interview about a dozen people each month for all of the podcasts produced by Art of Procurement. One thing…Kelly BarnerSeptember 26, 2024
AOS PodcastRisk ManagementSourcing & ContractingSupply Chain Evaluating India as a Viable Alternative to China “Folks from Dell to HP to Nike to Hasbro to Sony to Apple to Google to Goldman, they're all looking…Kelly BarnerSeptember 19, 2024
AOS PodcastBusiness AlignmentData & AnalyticsSupply Chain Advancements & Adjustments in the GE Appliances Supply Chain GE Appliances is a subsidiary of Haier Smart Home, a Shanghai-based company that purchased them from GE in 2016. Until…Kelly BarnerSeptember 12, 2024
AOS PodcastRisk ManagementSupply ChainTrends Proposed Patent Rule Changes and their Impact on Innovation w/ Wen Xie As someone who has never specialized in a patent-intensive space, I would have thought that patents were just about a…Kelly BarnerSeptember 5, 2024
AOS PodcastSupply Chain The (Lost) Art of Accepting Criticism I’ve had a number of conversations recently about my content, not the content itself, but the process I go through…Kelly BarnerAugust 29, 2024
AOS PodcastCSRTrends Freight Electrification as a Service The need for freight, and its impact on humanity, can be traced back as far as the Silk Road across…Kelly BarnerAugust 22, 2024
AOS PodcastRisk ManagementSupplier Management Fishing for Truth in the Seafood Supply Chain Oceana is a marine conservation nonprofit that has focused on seafood mislabeling for years, or “fish fraud” as it is…Kelly BarnerAugust 15, 2024
AOS PodcastCSRData & Analytics Orchestrating the Chaos of Retail Fulfillment “Every time I don't have a delivery truck stop in front of your house, 800 grams of CO2 is never…Kelly BarnerAugust 8, 2024
AOS PodcastBusiness AlignmentSourcing & Contracting Will FedEx Freight hit the open road? When you read news that a company is thinking about spinning off a division, it is usually because that division…Kelly BarnerAugust 1, 2024
AOS PodcastRisk ManagementTrends The Great Supply Train Robbery According to the New York Times, about 20 million containers move through the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach…Kelly BarnerJuly 25, 2024
AOS PodcastRisk ManagementTrends De Minimis: Supply Chain Trifles the Law Should be Concerned With Section 321 of the U.S. Tariff Act of 1930 contains a small provision known as ‘de minimis,’ a Latin phrase…Kelly BarnerJuly 18, 2024
AOS PodcastCSRLeadership Chasing a Common Supply Chain Objective: Saving Lives For over a decade, one public-private partnership has worked to make lifesaving medicines available in the most remote parts of…Kelly BarnerJuly 11, 2024
AOS PodcastCSRLeadership Coca-Cola’s Project Last Mile “Coke is everywhere. In fact, when I travel to the developing world, Coke feels ubiquitous. If we can understand what…Kelly BarnerJuly 4, 2024
AOS PodcastExpense ManagementSupplier Management Ultimate Endless Real Estate Costs at Red Lobster Red Lobster is the largest seafood chain in the United States. It buys 20 percent of North American lobster tails…Kelly BarnerJune 27, 2024
AOS PodcastTrends Former Pioneer Oil CEO Scott Sheffield – Colluder or Scapegoat? In 2019, Pioneer Natural Resources, an independent shale oil producer in West Texas, was worth $24 Billion. Their CEO, Scott…Kelly BarnerJune 20, 2024
AOS PodcastCSRSourcing & Contracting Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act: Progress or Setback? The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, or UFLPA, was passed to protect an ethnically Turkish, predominantly Muslim minority living in…Kelly BarnerJune 13, 2024
AOS PodcastData & AnalyticsRisk Management Sending a Powerful Message About America’s Pharmaceutical Independence Victor Suarez is a retired Colonel from the United States Army. He worked for the U.S. Department of Health and…Kelly BarnerJune 6, 2024