Are We Building Flatter Supply Chains?

I asked that question to Chad Smith and Carol Ptak in a past podcast and you might be surprised by the answer. Carol Ptak: It’s not really a flatter supply chain, because when I think of a flatter supply chain, I think about what’s happened in the Lean community, where they believe that the way Read More …

How Supply Chains Live in a Pull World

“The fact that in manufacturing and across the supply chain that the world around us has fundamentally changed.” – Carol Ptak Related Podcast and Transcription: Supply Chain Thinking: Think Where An excerpt from the podcast that I had with Carol: Joe:  Is there a relationship between ASR and TOC? Is the constraint the same, the Read More …