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 PodcastData & AnalyticsRisk ManagementSupplier Management Supply Chain Cyber Attack: Expeditors and iRobot Cyber attacks have been on the rise since 2020, occurring with increasing frequency and having a more detrimental impact to…Kelly BarnerMay 11, 2023
AOS PodcastLeadershipRisk ManagementSupplier Management Bed Bath & Beyond’s Decline from Superstore to No-more Bed Bath & Beyond was founded in New Jersey in 1971. Popular for its effective use of the ‘superstore’ concept,…Kelly BarnerMay 4, 2023
AOS PodcastRisk ManagementSourcing & ContractingTalent Management Negotiating The Big One: UPS and the Teamsters Labor Union The labor contract between UPS and the Teamsters union is the largest private collective bargaining agreement in North America -…Kelly BarnerApril 27, 2023
AOS PodcastRisk ManagementSourcing & ContractingSupplier Management Case Dismissed: Spencer Patton Prevails Over FedEx In August of 2022, the relationship between FedEx Ground and their network of delivery contractors looked like it was about…Kelly BarnerApril 6, 2023
AOS Podcast Dial P Updated Classic: Tentatively Making the Trains Run on Time In 2022, we saw more than our fair share of high profile strikes. There were the Canadian truckers and the…Kelly BarnerJanuary 5, 2023
AOS Podcast Real World Advice from a Life Well-Lived We all have advice from a trusted source that we carry with us everywhere and always. For Dial P host…Kelly BarnerDecember 29, 2022
AOS Podcast Dial P Updated Classic: Social Mission v. Business Fundamentals On June 2nd, Dial P released an episode explaining how Unilever CEO Alan Jope may have been 'losing the plot'…Kelly BarnerDecember 22, 2022
AOS Podcast 2022 Procurement & Supply Chain News in Review 2022 was a wild year… The speed and complexity of the world seem to keep increasing. The news stories that…Kelly BarnerDecember 15, 2022
AOS Podcast Speculating About the Future of Taiwan The world is so complicated today… we could play the ‘what if’ game all day long. What if the railroad…Kelly BarnerDecember 8, 2022
AOS Podcast Dial P Updated Classic: The Baby Formula Crisis Some of the stories Dial P covers during the year are so big, impactful, and educational, that they warrant revisiting…Kelly BarnerNovember 24, 2022
AOS Podcast Winter is Coming: Trouble in the Energy Supply Chain Energy costs are surging, partially because of a lack of supply and partially about the constraints placed on the movement…Kelly BarnerNovember 17, 2022
AOS Podcast Tracking Recent Layoffs: It’s Getting Bad Out There Last week’s business news was all Twitter all the time. With Elon Musk as the new owner of the company,…Kelly BarnerNovember 10, 2022
AOS Podcast NATO Discovers a Classic Strategic Sourcing Dilemma NATO was formed in 1949, in the aftermath of World War II, to ensure peace in Europe. Under article 5…Kelly BarnerNovember 3, 2022
AOS Podcast The Downside of Supplier Diversity at McDonald’s There’s a reason that the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and there are many examples of this…Kelly BarnerOctober 27, 2022
AOS Podcast Can the EU Function as a Single Market in an Emergency? On September 19th, 2022, the European Commission released a proposal for a new Single Market Emergency Instrument. The instrument, which…Kelly BarnerOctober 20, 2022
AOS Podcast The Rise and Fall of Apple Procurement VP Tony Blevins Procurement never makes the news, but when we do, we don’t hold anything back. Case in point: a viral video…Kelly BarnerOctober 13, 2022
AOS Podcast Tentatively Making the Trains Run on Time Global supply chains are decidedly intermodal, and rail plays a much larger role than many people may realize. The potential…Kelly BarnerOctober 6, 2022
AOS Podcast FedEx Ground’s Contractor Woes FedEx has been in the news a lot lately, and for all the wrong reasons. They are facing a challenge…Kelly BarnerSeptember 29, 2022
AOS Podcast Banned Books Week 2022: Fighting for Intellectual Freedom “Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.” ― Isaac Asimov, Science Fiction Writer Banned Books Week is an…Kelly BarnerSeptember 23, 2022
AOS Podcast Taking a Thoughtful Approach to Relentless Improvement Featuring Tom Burke with ButcherBox Although the most memorable shortage of 2020 was toilet paper, there was a span of time in the spring and…Kelly BarnerSeptember 15, 2022
AOS Podcast Intent v. Effect of Uyghur Forced Labor Regulation The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which took effect on June 21, 2022, is aimed at stopping human rights abuses…Kelly BarnerSeptember 8, 2022