Post by Daniel Stanton, DBA

The latest edition of Supply Chained is now available. Yesterday, I attended the release of CSCMP's Annual State of Logistics Report®, produced by Kearney and sponsored by Penske Logistics. The report's theme, Forged in Disruption, captures a reality that supply chain leaders are facing every day: volatility is no longer an exception. It has become the operating environment. In this edition, I share my key takeaways from the report and the panel discussion, including: ▶ Why resilience is becoming a baseline capability rather than a contingency plan ▶ The surprising statistic that U.S. trade policy changed, on average, every 1.5 weeks during the reporting period ▶ How AI is moving from experimentation to execution ▶ Why human capability remains central despite advances in automation ▶ The growing connection between sustainability and resilience ▶ The difference between resilience and the emerging concept of antifragility ▶ A thought-provoking discussion about what "China+1" really means, and why American and Chinese executives often interpret it very differently A special thank you to Mark Baxa, Rob Haddock, Douglas Cantriel, Andres Mendoza Pena, Paul Bingham, Stacy Schlachter, Beth Rooney, and Korhan Acar for sharing your insights and helping bring the report's findings to life. What was your biggest takeaway from this year's State of Logistics Report? ~Mr. Supply Chain® #SupplyChain #CSCMP #AlwaysBeLearning #SupplyChained