The Supply Chain Xchange

Across manufacturing, logistics, and consumer goods, companies have spent the last several years investing heavily in dashboards, business intelligence (BI) tools, and executive scorecards to improve supply chain decision-making. While adoption of these tools has grown steadily, decision quality has not always kept pace.

Most news coverage treats the current wave of tariffs like a single event that businesses need to get through. Adjust pricing, absorb some cost, wait for the next announcement, and move on. But this framing undersells what’s actually happening.

Governments are using tariffs as a negotiating tactic, not a fixed policy. That means rates can rise, drop, or get ...

For most of my career I oversaw multiple distribution centers at once, and even though I had every report and trend line you could ask for, I made a point to walk through every one of them on a monthly or quarterly rhythm. Those walk-throughs were never random. Each one had an agenda, and each one started with a follow-up list from the visit before—the open items,...