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 PodcastCSRRisk ManagementSupplier Management Killer App: The UK Post Office Scandal In today’s digital age, jokes are often made at technology’s expense. I have multiple calls each week where someone apologizes…Kelly BarnerFebruary 15, 2024
AOS PodcastRisk ManagementSourcing & ContractingSupplier Management Savings v. Safety in Aircraft Manufacturing On January 5th, Alaska Airlines flight 1282 left Portland, Oregon en route to Ontario, California. Just minutes into the flight,…Kelly BarnerFebruary 8, 2024
AOS PodcastTrends The Drone Final Mile Becomes Reality In 2005, Amazon revolutionized eCommerce delivery expectations with their 2-day Prime delivery service. All of a sudden, every other retailer…Kelly BarnerFebruary 1, 2024
AOS PodcastRisk ManagementTrends Weight and Value x Distance: Studying Global Supply Chain Use and Cost In June 2023, the Journal of Economic Perspectives published a paper titled "How Far Goods Travel: Global Transport and Supply…Kelly BarnerJanuary 25, 2024
AOS PodcastRisk ManagementTrends High Stakes in the Red Sea On New Year’s Eve, weeks of escalating tensions in the Red Sea finally boiled over. One day after hitting the…Kelly BarnerJanuary 18, 2024
AOS PodcastRisk ManagementTrends Introducing Art of Supply Effective today, Dial P for Procurement is the Art of Supply podcast. Building on the strength of the category-leading Art…Kelly BarnerJanuary 11, 2024
AOS PodcastCSRRisk ManagementSourcing & Contracting Troubling Times for Electric Trucking With all the recent buzz about electric vehicles (EVs), not to mention the push towards sustainability and emissions reduction, it…Kelly BarnerDecember 21, 2023
AOS PodcastCSRRisk ManagementSourcing & Contracting Reading FedEx Ground the RICO Act The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, better known as RICO, is usually associated with organized crime. In 1992, it…Kelly BarnerDecember 14, 2023
AOS PodcastData & AnalyticsRisk ManagementTrends Will the world fiddle while Bangladesh burns? On November 7th, a minimum wage increase was announced for ready-made garment factory workers in Bangladesh. The increase took workers…Kelly BarnerDecember 7, 2023
AOS PodcastData & AnalyticsRisk ManagementTrends The White House Council on Supply Chain Resilience “Did you ever think we'd be talking this much about supply chains?” - President Biden On Monday, November 27, 2023,…Kelly BarnerNovember 30, 2023
AOS PodcastCSRRisk ManagementTrends Where are they now? News stories come and go but some have more ‘legs’ than others. While wars and politics and the economy can…Kelly BarnerNovember 23, 2023
AOS PodcastData & AnalyticsDigitizationTrends Supply Chain Post Mortem: Convoy Convoy (2015 - 2023) was a freight brokerage that aimed to disrupt a high-volume, low-margin space by applying advanced automation…Kelly BarnerNovember 16, 2023
AOS PodcastCSRSupplier ManagementTrends Is it the most wonderful time of the supply chain year? According to the National Retail Federation, 43 percent of people started doing their holiday shopping in October, leading the NRF…Kelly BarnerNovember 9, 2023
AOS PodcastCSRRisk Management The LEGO Sustainability Saga “We can’t say we inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow if we’re ruining the planet.” - Tim Guy Brooks, Head…Kelly BarnerOctober 26, 2023
AOS PodcastLeadershipRisk ManagementTrends Negotiating Lessons from Hollywood Labor Why did the Hollywood writers’ strike take so long to resolve and why is the screen actors’ guild still on…Kelly BarnerOctober 19, 2023
AOS PodcastData & AnalyticsDigitization Smucker’s + Hostess = Supply Chain Synergy In mergers and acquisitions, synergies are the benefits of combining two organizations that go beyond their new larger size. For…Kelly BarnerOctober 12, 2023
AOS PodcastData & AnalyticsTrends Books As a Proxy for Free Thought “If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be…Kelly BarnerOctober 5, 2023
AOS PodcastData & AnalyticsTrends The Competitive Expectations Behind the Google Antitrust Trial Google is currently defending themselves in court because the U.S. Department of Justice claims they have violated the Sherman Antitrust…Kelly BarnerSeptember 28, 2023
AOS PodcastData & AnalyticsSourcing & Contracting Getting a Kiss From a World Class Supply Chain Founded in 1894 by Milton Hershey, The Hershey Company has seen their share of ups and downs. Not only have…Kelly BarnerSeptember 21, 2023
AOS PodcastExpense ManagementRisk ManagementSupplier ManagementTrends The Cold, Hard Facts About Cold Chain Logistics The term “cold chain” was first used in 1908 to describe meat industry storage and transportation in and out of…Kelly BarnerSeptember 14, 2023
AOS PodcastExpense ManagementRisk ManagementSupplier ManagementTrends Nerves of U.S. Steel “You can’t unscramble eggs.” – J.P. Morgan U.S. Steel was formed in 1901 when J.P. Morgan financed the merger of…Kelly BarnerSeptember 7, 2023