Blogs
ReGlobalization Demands Digital Supply Chain Networks
Agility and Optionality Are Must-Haves for Competitive Advantage In today's fast-changing world, success requires visibility, agility and supply chain resilience. That’s why leading companies are turning to digital supply chain networks. Because for decades, supply...
Brain Drain – The Iceberg to Your Titanic
Employee Exodus Creates Talent Gap That Leaves Organizations Vulnerable After the iceberg hit, the Titanic went fast. Brain drain will sink your enterprise just as effectively – although organizational death might take a bit longer. Organizations have dealt with...
RFID Inventory Management Systems Are Your Foundation
Even the Best AI/Tech Can't Save Supply Chains from Bad Data Since the dawn of computing, programmers have realized that bad data yields poor results. This garbage in, garbage out applies to your global supply chains. Which is why RFID inventory management systems...
Liberate Your Boards with Organizational Development
Reinventing the Organization Transforms Oversight to Insight Organizational development is the key to helping companies reinvent the organization for the AI era. Because while artificial intelligence and digital tools reshape decision-making and work, success depends...
U.S. Infrastructure and the Future of Supply Chains
Underneath Trucks and Trains Lies What Moves Everything When most people think about supply chain, they think of trucks, ships, trains, planes, even automobiles for eCommerce. But infrastructure is the backbone of any supply chain – indeed, any economy. After all,...
Move Freight with Confidence in an Uncertain World
ReGlobalization Requires the Right Partners for Freight Forwarding and Transportation Services If your organization cannot move freight efficiently, reliably and affordably, you lose. For executive teams, that makes selecting the right freight forwarding and...
Thriving Amid Uncertainty
VUCA Was Just the Beginning In a 2019 YouTube video, I predicted 2020 would set record levels of VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity. Got that one right! (No, I didn't predict the pandemic. I just saw how the rate and pace of disruption seemed to...
The Tompkins Ventures ReGlobalization Process
Our Xshoring Methodology Helps You Rethink Global Operations Amidst Tariffs and Uncertainty Uncertainty is inevitable in today’s global environment. But failing to plan for uncertainty is a plan to fail. That's why Tompkins Ventures has developed a structured...
Innovation in Manufacturing Beats the Mirage of Cheap Labor
Strong leadership Can Point Toward the Future, Not the Past What can innovation in manufacturing get you? How about greater productivity, shorter supply chains and less worry about labor costs? That was my takeaway from a recent speech Vice President J.D. Vance made...
How Managed Transportation Can Save Your Logistics Bacon
A Rate Compression Study Can Help You Make Your 2025 Numbers Businesses have just closed out the first quarter of 2025. And every logistics and supply chain VP I know is asking: How do we make our numbers this year? The answer: Managed transportation services, not...
ReGlobalization Requires Dynamic Supply Chains
Executive Teams Need the Right Tool for High-Level Strategic Analysis I’ve been explaining why ReGlobalization requires dynamic supply chain optionality for a while. But how do executive teams achieve such supply chain agility? Well, your first requirement is a tool...
Privatize the Post Office, or Just Use Supply Chain Design?
Sigh. Nothing Has Changed Since My 1969 White House Internship In what seems like déjà vu all over again, here we are arguing over privatizing the post office. Well, whatever the U.S. Postal Service winds up being, sound supply chain design principles should rule...