Art of Supply

By Kelly Barner, Art of Procurement

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Art of Supply, hosted by Kelly Barner, draws inspiration from news headlines and expert interviews to bring you insightful coverage of today's complex supply chains.

Episode Date
When Agents Make Bad Supply Chain Decisions at Machine Speed W/ Russell Halper
Oct 08, 2026
Who Moved My Beer? Inside the Pabst Blue Ribbon Cargo Theft
Oct 01, 2026
Sledgehammers, Crowbars, and the Future of U.S. Trade Policy W/ Jeff Rittener
Sep 24, 2026
Inside the Rise of Cargo Theft W/ Keith Lewis
Sep 17, 2026
Detroit can build it, but can Detroit source it?
Sep 10, 2026
Foreign-Trade Zones in a 20 Percent Tariff Environment
Sep 03, 2026
The $604 Million Freight Broker Liability Verdict
Aug 27, 2026
What "Dignity of Work" Means for Supply Chain Operations W/ Robert Martichenko
Aug 20, 2026
The $285,000 Electric Truck Nobody Can Find
Aug 13, 2026
CMA CGM and FedEx Supply Chain: The Deal Behind the Deal
Aug 06, 2026
Checkbox Supply Chain Compliance Just Got a Lot More Expensive
Jul 30, 2026
All Forecasts Are Wrong W/ Michael Murray
Jul 23, 2026
182,000 Pounds of Nectarines Too Valuable to Sell
Jul 16, 2026
The Ships Are Lying About Where They Are
Jul 09, 2026
Stablecoins Have Their Moment in the Real Economy W/ Tanner Taddeo
Jul 02, 2026
3 Questions We Can't Answer About Amazon LTL
Jun 25, 2026
The Supply Planning Paradox: Why Bigger Budgets Don't Buy Better Outcomes
Jun 18, 2026
Too big to merge? Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern Try Again
Jun 11, 2026
FedEx Freight's Independence Day
Jun 04, 2026
Red Lobster's Comeback Gamble
May 28, 2026
Why is nobody talking about China's new supply chain regulations?
May 21, 2026
Consumption Challenges at Boston Beer Company
May 14, 2026
Social Value as Strategy in Public Sector Procurement W/ Guy Battle
May 07, 2026
Pricing the Last Mile: Amazon, USPS, and the Fight for Profitability
Apr 30, 2026
UPS Picks Profitability Over Volume, and The Teamsters Push Back
Apr 23, 2026
Everyone Has a Role in Growing the Value Chain W/ Andrew Quincey
Apr 16, 2026
From Ports to Geopolitics: Protecting U.S. Cargo Worldwide with Chairman Laura DiBella
Apr 09, 2026
Building Ethical Leaders in Freight: Inside TIA's Freight Leadership Lab
Apr 02, 2026
Foreign-trade Zones Explained & Applied
Mar 26, 2026
Brewing Uncertainty: The Coffee Supply Chain Shock
Mar 19, 2026
The Panama Canal Power Struggle
Mar 12, 2026
How iRobot's Supply Chain Became Its Last Resort
Mar 05, 2026
National Security Starts in the Supply Chain
Feb 26, 2026
How a $3M Company Destroyed $17B in Freight Market Value
Feb 19, 2026
Sanctioned at Sea: Addressing the Shadow Fleet
Feb 12, 2026
Freight Capacity v. Paperwork & Politics
Feb 05, 2026
One Railroad to Rule Them All? Inside the Union Pacific–Norfolk Southern Merger
Jan 29, 2026
Cautious Optimism in the Suez Canal
Jan 22, 2026
Tracking the Logistics of a $400K Lobster Heist
Jan 15, 2026
Enlightenment Thinking in an Age of Disruption
Jan 08, 2026
Incoming! 10 Supply Chain Predictions for 2026
Dec 18, 2025
Reshoring Success at GE Appliances Shaded by Tariff Fraud Allegations
Dec 11, 2025
UPS Gambles on Gig Workers
Dec 04, 2025
Rubber Stamped CDL Regulations
Nov 20, 2025
OceanGate and the Limits of Supply Base Innovation
Nov 13, 2025
Asset Optimization Isn't a Destination – It's a Discipline
Nov 06, 2025
Inside the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics: Harnessing Creative Destruction
Oct 30, 2025
Intermodal by Design: How Coordination Drives Efficiency W/ Anne Reinke
Oct 23, 2025
The Soybean Economy: What's at Stake in the U.S.–China Trade Talks
Oct 16, 2025
Kodiak's Road to IPO: AI, Defense Contracts, and the Future of Autonomous Trucking
Oct 09, 2025
Reimagining Reshoring With the Help of 3D Printing
Oct 02, 2025
Truck Drivers, Trade Deals, and Denials: Sorting Fact from Fiction in Nebraska
Sep 25, 2025
Target Steps Back from 'Stores as Hubs' Digital Fulfillment
Sep 18, 2025
Honk If You're Qualified: Understanding CDL Safety
Sep 11, 2025
Can Apple Reshore the iPhone?
Sep 04, 2025
Shipments Under Siege: The Growing Problem of Cargo Theft
Aug 28, 2025
Lost at Sea: Can the U.S. regain maritime dominance?
Aug 21, 2025
From Billable Hours to Measurable Impact: The GSA's Push for Outcome-Based Contracts
Aug 14, 2025
Coming Unchained to Embrace Global Supply Networks W/ Tim Richardson
Aug 07, 2025
What Restaurants Can Teach Us About Procurement & Supply Chain
Jul 31, 2025
Making the Pivot to AI-enabled Global Sourcing W/ Anthony Sardain
Jul 24, 2025
Remembering Fred Smith: FedEx Founder & Supply Chain Visionary
Jul 17, 2025
How Transportation & Logistics Companies Are Tackling Network Security W/ Ken Rutsky
Jul 10, 2025
Down but Not Out: California's Fight to Regulate Emissions
Jul 03, 2025
A Procurement Crime at Intel: Loopholes and Lessons Learned
Jun 26, 2025
Prioritizing Dispute Prevention Over Problem Solving
Jun 19, 2025
High Velocity Lessons on Lobbying and Trade W/ Samir Kapadia
Jun 12, 2025
Tariffs as a Girder for Domestic Fabricated Steel W/ Stephen Capone and Hollie Noveletsky
Jun 05, 2025
Semiconductor CHIPS, Checks, and Challenges
May 29, 2025
How U.S. Tariffs Are Reshaping Global Freight W/ Judah Levine
May 22, 2025
Supply Chains & Second Chances: Human Trafficking Aftercare
May 15, 2025
Building a U.S. Solar Supply Chain
May 08, 2025
Manufacturing Labor Market Insights in an Uncertain World
May 01, 2025
Beef with the Big 4: McDonald's vs. the Meat Monopoly
Apr 24, 2025
In Defense of Lean Thinking W/ Thomas Goldsby
Apr 17, 2025
Scope 3 Showdown: Green Century v. Ford
Apr 10, 2025
LTL Shakeup: Will Amazon join the fray?
Apr 03, 2025
Who owns the Panama Canal?
Mar 27, 2025
Decoding the DOGE Savings Calculator
Mar 20, 2025
Investing in People-powered Safety in Food Manufacturing W/ Nathan Walts
Mar 13, 2025
East and Gulf Coast Port Strike – Part 2
Mar 06, 2025
A Narrow Path Towards Noninflationary Tariffs
Feb 27, 2025
Lessons in Listening from Joe Rogan and Charlamagne tha God
Feb 20, 2025
Who will decide the future of EV trucking?
Feb 13, 2025
Dylan v. Goliath: The Freight Essentials RICO Case
Feb 06, 2025
Misfortune on 34th Street: Accounting Issues at Macy's
Jan 30, 2025
Nebraska v. California: The EV Trucking Transition
Jan 23, 2025
The Dawn of a New Era in U.S. Trade Policy
Jan 16, 2025
Reenvisioning Robotics for Warehouse Optimization
Jan 09, 2025
Re-reading Good to Great at the Start of a New Year
Jan 02, 2025
Supply Chain Stories to Watch at the Start of 2025
Dec 26, 2024
Solving Supply Chain Puzzles: Insights from a Year of Interviews
Dec 19, 2024
Supply Chain Forecast: Volatile with Tim Richardson
Dec 12, 2024
In Defense of Outliers
Dec 05, 2024
Walking a Mile in Another Supply Chain's Shoes W/ Alex Jennings
Nov 28, 2024
BONUS: Indictment in the 2022 Tractor Trailer Human Smuggling Case
Nov 23, 2024
Liverwurst, Listeria, and Liability: Food Safety at Boar's Head
Nov 21, 2024
The Power of Visualization in Freight Optimization and Resilience with Ruud van Dijk
Nov 14, 2024
Consolidating the USPS Final Mile
Nov 07, 2024
Creating a B2C to B to C Improvement Cycle at Walmart Business w/ Ashley Hubka
Oct 31, 2024
Part 4: Head-to-Head Comparison of Candidate Policies
Oct 24, 2024
Part 3: Republican Candidate Former President Donald J. Trump
Oct 23, 2024
Part 2: Democratic Candidate Vice President Kamala Harris
Oct 22, 2024
Part 1: Playing Politics with Supply Chains
Oct 21, 2024
Tips for Surviving in a Brave New World
Oct 17, 2024
East and Gulf Coast Port Strike - Part 1
Oct 10, 2024
Supply Chains as Business in Action w/ Thomas Goldsby
Oct 03, 2024
Developing and Deploying Digital Empathy
Sep 26, 2024
Evaluating India as a Viable Alternative to China w/ Samir Kapadia
Sep 19, 2024
Advancements & Adjustments in the GE Appliances Supply Chain
Sep 12, 2024
Proposed Patent Rule Changes and their Impact on Innovation w/ Wen Xie
Sep 05, 2024
The (Lost) Art of Accepting Criticism
Aug 29, 2024
Freight Electrification as a Service w/ Ian Rust
Aug 22, 2024
Fishing for Truth in the Seafood Supply Chain
Aug 15, 2024
Orchestrating the Chaos of Retail Fulfillment w/ Mike Robinson
Aug 08, 2024
Will FedEx Freight hit the open road?
Aug 01, 2024
The Great Supply Train Robbery
Jul 25, 2024
De Minimis: Supply Chain Trifles the Law Should be Concerned With
Jul 18, 2024
Chasing a Common Supply Chain Objective: Saving Lives w/ Adrian Ristow and David Canarutto
Jul 11, 2024
Project Last Mile: A Story Worth Retelling
Jul 04, 2024
Ultimate Endless Real Estate Costs at Red Lobster
Jun 27, 2024
Former Pioneer Oil CEO Scott Sheffield - Colluder or Scapegoat?
Jun 20, 2024
Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act: Progress or Setback?
Jun 13, 2024
Sending a Powerful Message About America's Pharmaceutical Independence
Jun 06, 2024
Symptoms of Disruption in the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain
May 30, 2024
Searching for the Limits of Employee Activism at Google
May 23, 2024
The Surging Problem of AI Energy Consumption
May 09, 2024
Replacing Good Intentions with Good Outcomes at Whistl
May 02, 2024
Examining the Practicality of the EV Truck Mandate
Apr 25, 2024
Playing the "China Card" in U.S. Ports
Apr 18, 2024
Net Zero in New York? JBS Accused of Greenwashing
Apr 11, 2024
Even with +1, China is still #1
Apr 04, 2024
What You Don't Know Can Hertz You
Mar 28, 2024
Treasure Hunting with TJX
Mar 21, 2024
Three Strikes for the New Baseball Uniform
Mar 14, 2024
Surviving the Supply Chain Arena
Mar 07, 2024
Time to Return to Just-in-Time?
Feb 29, 2024
Case Dismissed: Byron Allen v. McDonald's
Feb 22, 2024
Killer App: The UK Post Office Scandal
Feb 15, 2024
Savings v. Safety in Aircraft Manufacturing
Feb 08, 2024
The Drone Final Mile Becomes Reality
Feb 01, 2024
Weight and Value x Distance: Studying Global Supply Chain Use and Cost
Jan 25, 2024
High Stakes in the Red Sea
Jan 18, 2024
Introducing Art of Supply
Jan 11, 2024
2023 Dial P for Procurement Year in Review
Dec 28, 2023
Troubling Times for Electric Trucking
Dec 21, 2023
Reading FedEx Ground the RICO Act
Dec 14, 2023
Will the world fiddle while Bangladesh burns?
Dec 07, 2023
The White House Council on Supply Chain Resilience
Nov 30, 2023
Where are they now?
Nov 23, 2023
Supply Chain Post Mortem: Convoy
Nov 16, 2023
Is it the most wonderful time of the supply chain year?
Nov 09, 2023
Coca-Cola's Project Last Mile
Nov 02, 2023
The LEGO Sustainability Saga
Oct 26, 2023
Negotiating Lessons from Hollywood Labor
Oct 19, 2023
Smucker's + Hostess = Supply Chain Synergy
Oct 12, 2023
Books As a Proxy for Free Thought
Oct 05, 2023
The Competitive Expectations Behind the Google Antitrust Trial
Sep 28, 2023
Getting a Kiss From a World Class Supply Chain
Sep 21, 2023
The Cold, Hard Facts About Cold Chain Logistics
Sep 14, 2023
Nerves of U.S. Steel
Sep 07, 2023
Dodging the Urban Doom Loop
Aug 31, 2023
Who is to blame for Yellow's demise?
Aug 24, 2023
Restoring Business Imagination Through Nature
Aug 17, 2023
The Problem with Performative ESG
Aug 10, 2023
Tesla Takes the Socialist Pledge
Aug 03, 2023
Public Education as Corporate Social Responsibility
Jul 27, 2023
Tracking Procurement from Industry 1.0 - 5.0
Jul 20, 2023
Russia's Wagner Group as Rogue Supplier
Jul 13, 2023
R.I.P. Great Resignation (2020-2023)
Jul 06, 2023
Meet Digit - The Future of Warehouse Automation
Jun 29, 2023
Are contracts obscuring U.S. child labor in your supply chain?
Jun 22, 2023
Dove's Real Beauty Campaign: Evolution of a Social Message
Jun 15, 2023
Artistic Revolutions: Comparing the Impact of Photography and Generative AI
Jun 08, 2023
The Laws of Supply and Demand Meat at Tyson Foods
Jun 01, 2023
A GAAP in Judgement at Kraft Heinz
May 25, 2023
JPMorgan Chase Stops the Financial Contagion
May 18, 2023
Supply Chain Cyber Attack: Expeditors and iRobot
May 11, 2023
Bed Bath & Beyond's Decline from from Superstore to No-more
May 04, 2023
Negotiating The Big One: UPS and the Teamsters Labor Union
Apr 27, 2023
The Power and Danger of Asking Good Questions
Apr 20, 2023
Loss Aversion Theory and the Collapse of SVB
Apr 13, 2023
Case Dismissed: Spencer Patton Prevails Over FedEx
Apr 06, 2023
Data and Derailment in East Palestine, OH
Mar 30, 2023
The Next Phase of Dial P for Procurement Begins
Mar 23, 2023
Real World Advice from a Life Well-Lived
Dec 29, 2022
2022 Procurement & Supply Chain News in Review
Dec 15, 2022
Speculating About the Future of Taiwan
Dec 08, 2022
Winter is Coming: Trouble in the Energy Supply Chain
Nov 17, 2022
Tracking Recent Layoffs: It's Getting Bad Out There
Nov 10, 2022
NATO Discovers a Classic Strategic Sourcing Dilemma
Nov 03, 2022
The Downside of Supplier Diversity at McDonald's
Oct 28, 2022
Can the EU Function as a Single Market in an Emergency?
Oct 20, 2022
The Rise and Fall of Apple Procurement VP Tony Blevins
Oct 13, 2022
Tentatively Making the Trains Run on Time
Oct 06, 2022
FedEx Ground's Contractor Woes
Sep 29, 2022
Banned Books Week 2022: Fighting for Intellectual Freedom
Sep 22, 2022
Taking a Thoughtful Approach to Relentless Improvement Featuring Tom Burke with ButcherBox
Sep 15, 2022
Intent v. Effect of Uyghur Forced Labor Regulation
Sep 08, 2022
Looking at ESG Investing with a Critical Eye
Sep 01, 2022
Can These Supply Relationships be Saved? Featuring Philip Ideson
Aug 25, 2022
Sustained Empathetic Leadership in Turbulent Times
Aug 18, 2022
Does the CHIPS Act provide the Helpful Incentives the U.S. needs?
Aug 11, 2022
Why is Fuel So Expensive?
Aug 04, 2022
Guarding Private Incentive to Innovate featuring Patent Attorney Wen Xie
Jul 28, 2022
Refillable v. Recyclable: The EPA Takes on Domestic Production
Jul 21, 2022
Heavy Traffic and Human Trafficking at the U.S. Border
Jul 14, 2022
American Supply Chain Revolution
Jul 07, 2022
Leverage on 18 Wheels: The South Korean Driver Strike
Jun 30, 2022
The Resurgence and Economic Impact of Supplier Diversity Programs in America Featuring Ken Yearwood with McKinsey
Jun 23, 2022
Race Against the Clock: Getting the Grain Out of Ukraine
Jun 16, 2022
Is the WTO Jeopardizing Innovation by Failing to Protect IP?
Jun 09, 2022
Losing the Plot: Social Mission v. Business Fundamentals
Jun 02, 2022
Does it Matter if We Go Into a Recession?
May 26, 2022
Hunting for the True Source of the Baby Formula Shortage
May 19, 2022
Preparing for the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act and Regulations Featuring Constantine Limberakis with riskmethods
May 12, 2022
Elon Musk Bought Twitter. What Happens Next?
May 05, 2022
Hey CEOs – Love the One You're With
Apr 28, 2022
Don't say Digital: A Hitchhiker's Guide to the New Economy
Apr 21, 2022
Boots on the Ground in Shanghai, China feat. Jeffrey Goldstein, President of ONWARD Global
Apr 14, 2022
Are Inflation Expectations a Self-Fulfilling Prophesy?
Apr 07, 2022
Escaping the Clutches of the Old Economy by Building Supply Ecosystems with Koray Kose and Rik Vera
Mar 31, 2022
Building Out Business Diversity Programs with Constance Jones from NMSDC
Mar 24, 2022
Does the Development of Expertise Naturally Lead Us to Fail?
Mar 17, 2022
Corporate Involvement in Ukraine in the Era of ESG
Mar 10, 2022
The Prepared will Prevail: Investing in Collaborative Supply Chain Resilience
Feb 16, 2022
Supplier Diversity Comes to the Forefront: The 2021 State of Supplier Diversity Report w Neeraj Shah
Feb 15, 2022
P is Also for Payments and (Credit Card) Processing with Jim Luff and Kris Lance
Feb 14, 2022
Delivering an Experience that Builds Strong Relationships
Feb 13, 2022
Move Faster, Save More, and Look Better Doing It! With Anthony Clervi and Kris Lance from Una
Feb 12, 2022
Collaborating with Suppliers Through Challenging Times
Feb 11, 2022
The Intersection of International Culture and Talent in Procurement, Guest Jacinta Taliauli
Feb 10, 2022
Telling a Human Story About Digital Procurement Transformation
Feb 09, 2022
Approaching Procurement with a Growth Mindset
Feb 08, 2022
Positioning for Success at the Intersection of Transformation, Risk, & Technology with Koray Kose & Philip Ideson
Feb 07, 2022
Driving Innovation Through the Supplier Experience with Quentin Roach and Costas Xyloyiannis
Feb 06, 2022
Rethinking Supplier (Information) Management with Jeffrey Ostrander and Ragnar Lorentzen
Feb 05, 2022
Dial P for Procurement- Featuring Supply Chain Humanitarians Anna McGovern & Kathy Fulton
Feb 04, 2022