Thomas Friedman Quotes

With a global society hungry for luxury, distribution and supply chains are now as important for executives as a hands-on feel for products.

Strapped by tight credit and plummeting sales, businesses have overhauled the way they manage supply chains, inventory, production practices and staffing.

If the power goes out, business stops... whether you sell roses or you're a big manufacturer.

A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.

By using big data, it will also be possible to predict adverse weather conditions, rerouting ships to avoid delays, and monitor fuel data, thereby allowing companies to optimize their supply chains and the way they drive their business.

Rethinking product supply chains offers another opportunity for traditional enterprises to introduce a host of positive outcomes.

Amateurs do tactics, experts do logistics, as we learn in the military.

Supermarket companies are big logistics companies, and one of the ways we've increased profitability in the past is by re-evaluating how they do logistics.

Logistics is the ball and chain of armored warfare.

When we first invested in Colombia, we were buying a lot of coal from Colombia. We were dealing with them daily. I knew their guys at the port, I knew their guys at the mine, I had a feel of the country.

How do you actually green the supply chain is a challenge. The easier part is to do what we do; the difficult part is to get all your clients to long process will take time.

We're talking to every third-party supplier every day of the week, and our traders are talking to them and buying products from them. When we're doing that, we see opportunities which no one else sees.

In a company, you buy thousands of things. Every item you buy has its own footprint.

Terrorists can utilize any vulnerability in the system and that would include outbound shipments.

No company should depend on one person no matter how that person is smart or genius, whether it's Apple or News Corp, or Citibank or any other company in the world.

Last year, customs officials screened only five percent of the 11 million cargo containers entering the United States. That rate is both unacceptable and dangerous to our national and economic interests.

There are still a lot of cases in the world where you order something and then you see 'Delivery will be in 8-12 weeks.' This is because of the faxes and forms that still exist.

If was, increased by a lack of railways in Russia - for bringing up supplies to our advancing troops.

You can find Chobani in every major supermarket, in club stores, convenience stores and airports. But we're not everywhere yet. We have been struggling with keeping up with demand.

With Illum, we're able to start to customize that supply chain in a very deep way... to rethink the entire imaging pipeline.

GM is a highly collaborative organization; we rely on a whole tier of suppliers for everything that we do.

UPS stands as an example of a company that's already doing great things.

The object of protection is that of diminishing the distance and the waste between the producer and the consumer

In many critical things, such as the very high purity of the aluminium we need in aerospace, we only have one producer. That's not a good formula.

We are constantly auditing our supply chain. Making sure that safety standards are - are, you know, are the highest. We're making sure that working conditions are the highest.