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Rock on!

Supply Chain Insights

They deliver pantry supplies to our small office in Baltimore <without charging us shipping> a couple of times a week. They are redefining retail and opening up an opportunity for consumer products companies to ship directly to their consumers and disintermediate. We love Amazon. Launching a start-up is not easy.

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When The Wheels Fall Off

Supply Chain Shaman

For the prior ten years, as a city dweller in Philadelphia and Baltimore, I walked everywhere. If I do an excellent job at safety stock management, my company will have the right levels of inventory. Today, there are forty-five large ships off of the port of Long Beach. In 2017, when I moved, I bought an old car.