Article; Supply Chain Sublime https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/in-need-of-repair/articles/supply-chain-sublime
While visiting Walmart’s corporate headquarters, Friedman also saw a modern supply-chain depot in action. Perched high up in a million-square-foot distribution center, he witnessed merchandise from thousands of suppliers flowing from the backs of trailers into a vast network of conveyor belts. “As the Wal-Mart [sic] river flows along,” he writes, “an electric eye reads the bar codes on each box on its way to the other side of the building. There, the river parts again into a hundred streams. Electric arms from each stream reach out and guide the boxes—ordered by particular Wal-Mart stores—off the main river and down its stream, where another conveyor belt sweeps them into a waiting Wal-Mart truck.” Notably absent from this account, of course, are humans.
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Trace & Traceability is a personal website for note taking and research. My job is in IT development for an aquaculture certification scheme, and in this position I am daily reminded of the complexities of international governance over supply chains. As the face of globalism, the study of supply chains is the study of modern life, so it fascinates me beyond work. Traceability as an aspect of supply chain management is a special interest to me because of its reliance on IT infrastructure and database technology.
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