Plan to serve cup cakes at your software wedding

How Your IKEA Furniture Gets Across The Ocean — And Across The State — To Your Living Room

50+ Tips and Tools for Handling Your Shipping

Shipping may seem boring, or not that big of a deal to you; but the truth is, the majority of your business depends on logistics.

Who’s going to fulfill your orders? What types of people are packaging your products? Are you…

Postcards From a Supply Chain #9: Links in a Network

I don’t know if anyone has worked on this yet but I took the spreadsheet that Kirk Pettinga produced and came up with a very rough map. It took about 2–3 hours just to get the data to this point. More work still needs to be done to the data. This map shows the movements of all of the ships whose names start with the letter D on June 28, 2014. I was…

A Look into Amazon’s Project Dragonboat

Amazon, the world’s biggest retailer and manager of a formidable supply chain, has been in…

Bureaucracy and its implications on international trade

It is known to all of us that bureaucracy it…

Postcards From a Supply Chain #4: Shore Leave

This is the fourth in a series of postcards from Dan Williams’ journey along an…

The Perils of Putting off Post-Purchase ImProvements