Posted on 10/05/2023 8:33:19 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Supply chains are not something most of us think about on a day-to-day basis. Or they weren't, until the last few years, when we've been exposed, at least on the right, to the fragility and susceptibility of said supply chains. This author works in the shipping industry and has a few thoughts.
First and foremost, one needs a rudimentary understanding of how the supply chain actually works, so here is a summation. Let's call it Supply Chain 101:
1. A producer creates goods.
2. Goods need to get to market, which is handled by shippers.
3. Markets may be local, global, or anything in between, so the producer must tailor its shipping needs for supply chain movement accordingly.
4. A carrier (any company that moves goods) is selected and contracted to move the goods.
5. The goods are moved.
6. The recipient, also known as the consignee, receives the goods.
7. The consignee then either sells or redistributes the goods in accordance with the downstream contracts of the consignee.
8. When the goods need to travel farther along the supply chain, the consignee then becomes the shipper.
9. This is repeated as needed.
10. Eventually, the goods are available to the consumer.
That's the very simple explanation, and it took ten steps to get there. Planes, trains, trucks, ships, and even cars are all involved in the vital transport of goods. Trucks, more than any other mode of transport, are the most involved. Whether your shipment is a small parcel that fits in a 6"x8" padded envelope and goes between adjacent ZIP codes in a small box truck or an FTL (full truck load) that requires a 40' container that will travel by truck, train, and ship, in that order, then travel again by rail to truck...
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Do you think Biden’s Secretart of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg (diversity hire because he is a homosexual), understands any of the threats to the supply chain? Do you think he even worries about it?
Oh some of us understand supply chains quite well. I have for years told my wife kids, 3 days to complete panic. That is all it takes.
They started believing me over the last 2 years. Unfortunately most still have not learned the lessons of the plandemic.
Supply chain components are the quickest route to that.
The Technology Trap is about to shut tight.
Only when the new buttplug he ordered doesn't arrive on time. Otherwise, he couldn't be bothered.
Estes is one of our regular carriers, as well. Fortunately, there are enough independent companies that it would be hard to cripple the country through a cyber attack. But if three or four of the largest ones, including UPS or FedEx went down, even for a few days, there would be big trouble.
You forgot the front end….parts need to be transferred to the manufacturer
“Everyone else...”? Thinkin’ a lot of folks understand.
But a comprehensive hack impacting the overall logistics software service provider could cripple all of the carriers depending on that software service.
Truckers for Trump can shut down most major cities in the US if they so desire.
It’s the Dem’s Achilles Heel.
What shipping companies will the FBI target next? Or will it be a coordinated attack on all of them?
That’s why Trudeau responded the way he did against the truckers.
Problem was, Canadian truckers were not strategic.
That's where this system was birthed.
And our Transportation Secretary's chances of understanding all of this? ZERO...
I can guarantee you that it is much more complex today. I can also guarantee you there’s about zero people in government, beside a few in the military, that has the least bit of comprehension what goes into a supply chain and how all manufacturing activities are affected by supply chains. How can I say this? There isn’t a damn lazy ass government employee that ever built anything in their life.
When I got out of college in 1982, I managed a small circus board manufacturing company. We made boards for Telex, and Badger Meter, and Oil Dynamics.
There was a large company calledTime Mark In Tulsa at that time also producing boards. All gone in a few years.
Maybe that makes me something of a Luddite, idk.
Mysterious fires at food processing plants now cyber attacks on the shipping system that moves food… maybe I need more tinfoil in my hat
As Thomas Sowell astutely pointed out years ago, there isn't a single person alive who even knows how to manufacture a simple yellow pencil.
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