JT's SCM Tweets

Denver logistics, circa 1990?

@cprwarner 25 years of practice and billions of dollars invested, and TSA is just yelling at people all day. It’s embarrassing.

Going through TSA is being spoken to like a kindergartner again. “Belts oooooff. Shoes in the biiiiiin. Not yeeeeet. OK, gooooo!”

A good looking working port is the best welcome mat a city can offer to first time visitors.

Just boarded my United 737 in SFO and they are playing Kenny Loggin’s Danger Zone.

Highwaymen is a beautiful film: cars, costumes, scenery, acting.

If 70% of your returns are not defective are you sure you have the best possible definition of defective?

Has ⁦@UPLIFTDesk⁩ shared this nugget with their product team?

@austinjcooper Safety stock to cover variation in your ERP system. I like it!

@SCM_tweets Safety stock

Amazon's key innovation was selling what they have on hand.

Trying to register a couple of companies today. It's as Soviet as I expected. The US government cannot make websites.

It's run by the same department that monitors $10,000 transactions. Remember when 10 grand was a conspiratorial amount of money? Like what would someone do with that amount of cash, buy four new cars?

Trying to figure out beneficial owner reporting for my side hustles. Affects me because it applies to LLCs with < 20 employees. Obtuse website even by US government bureaucrats' standards.

@robliss Fair point!

I remember watching Jiro Dream’s of Sushi with my buddy who worked at a sushi joint at the time… my takeaway — the greatest sushi restaurant in the world is an old dude putting raw fish on top of rice in a Tokyo subway station If you’re procuring quality fish at scale, selling sushi becomes a distribution problem with some minor investment (guy making rolls im house). Counterpoint: Kroger’s specialization isn’t in sushi, it’s in procurement and distribution

Was just reading about the importance of specialization, and then I recalled the largest sushi seller in America is Kroger.

Don't need stochastic AI models to do simple math.

Other retailers are still catching up. Inventory position has always been hard, and it's harder still for omnichannel co's, but it puts "AI enabled supply chain" in perspective when many big brands don't know what's on their shelf.

You've got to make your own path.

@BenTschirgi This is a good one.

Dwight would have been one hell of a freight broker. #f3memes

@AntarYaami Superior to an M3? Wow. BEVs have completely turned my idea of what performance car means upside down. 🙃

@SCM_tweets Not sure if you're looking for a sedan but a BMW i4 is right up there. ~$650 in lease for a superior spec to M3. No L4 autonomous driving tho

I've never leased a car, but from what I've just seen online I can lease a Ford Mach E for $1,200/month or a Tesla Model Y for $430 a month. Comparable specs, range, etc. This is not good for Ford.

@Logisticsexpert Great question, but I didn’t see that on Tesla or Ford website. I also don’t know if Ford is passing thru the $7,500 Fed rebate. I think to get a real Mustang price I’d have to visit a dealer.

Elon is a horse's ass, but I could probably swallow that opinion for $800/month. It's not like I've ever met Farley or any of the Ford clan.

Maybe I'm doing this wrong, but 3X price seems like a big gap to close.