The SupplyChainBrain Podcast

For all the attention that we pay to the movement of goods from origin to destination, do we ever give thought to the communities that lie in their path?

Meet a woman of color who has broken down barriers in the railroad industry — among many other accomplishments.

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, along with supporting distribution facilities and infrastructure in the area, are suffering from severe congestion. What’s the cause — and the solution?

With the pandemic still raging and the U.S. domestic economy slumping, how will President Biden address critical issues of international trade?

When it comes to pursuing supply-chain sustainability and social responsibility, has the pandemic caused companies to take their eye off the ball?

For e-tailers selling their wares on Amazon.com, a lot of obstacles stand in the way of success — sometimes even Amazon itself.

Healthcare is facing a potential cybersecurity crisis.

When it comes to efficient distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine and other drugs, the pharmaceutical supply chain is falling short.

Blame the glitches in rolling out COVID-19 vaccines on any number of factors, but is there a quick solution to the obstacles encountered on the distribution end?

It takes more than the issuance of sincere P.R. statements to ensure real diversity in the business world today.

Retailers selling over the internet can’t hope to compete without a reliable and effective direct-to-consumer (DTC) model for fulfillment. But setting one up is anything but easy. 

If you’re a business that’s outsourcing services, don’t think for one moment that you’re shedding responsibility for the health and safety of a vendor’s staff when they show up on your premises.

The failure of consumers to recycle their personal devices could lead to shortages of the precious metals needed to build new products.

Many of the supply-chain shortages caused by the coronavirus pandemic have one thing in common: a lack of plastic and cardboard containers to put them in.

If U.S. manufacturing is to compete with cheap overseas production, it needs to attract a younger workforce with technology chops.

The humble conveyor is no longer the symbol of warehouse automation. The robots are here. We’ve seen countless iterations of technology for automating warehouses and factories over the decades, but somehow the conveyor remained the essence of that evolution. Until now. Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) are increasingly supplanting conveyors in the warehouse. They’re far more flexible and varied in t...

The 17 “rare earth” minerals that are essential to so many high-tech products today, from electric cars to magnets and military systems, aren’t literally rare, but their mining and production is.

Easier said than done: that pretty well describes the task of shifting manufacturing out of China and back to the United States.

Easier said than done: that pretty well describes the task of shifting manufacturing out of China and back to the United States.

Artificial intelligence is everywhere in global business today, especially in the supply chain. But what exactly is this thing called “AI”?