“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena…” - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910

The last four years of supply chain challenges have taken a toll. People are exhausted, stressed, and scarred. Unlike many areas of life that have gone back to ‘normal,’ supply chains continue to be batted about by geopolitical strife, the economy, and literal attacks.

The result of all that pressure? A generation of brilliant supply chain professionals ready for anything the future might throw at them, says David Moran, a 25-year supply chain executive with experience working for companies like Procter and Gamble, Diageo, and Kentucky Fried Chicken.

In this week’s Art of Supply, Kelly Barner welcomes David to share his perspective on the unique opportunity to have survived supply chain work since 2020:

• The operational differences between supply chain teams that were empowered to set their own priorities and teams that were handed their priorities by the business
• The power and value of the ‘scars’ earned by supply chain teams over the last few years (and how they should treat them)
• Why instinctively being able to decide what is important and what is not will be the greatest skill these professionals carry with them into the future

Links:

• David Moran on LinkedIn
• Kelly Barner on LinkedIn
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