Dial P for Procurement Podcast
1) Reshoring Success at GE Appliances Shaded by Tariff Fraud Allegations
GE Appliances has been making news for years for the success of their reshoring program. It is a great story: a well-known consumer brand that is bringing production home, both to their own benefit an...Show More
2) UPS Gambles on Gig Workers
UPS is currently stuck between dropping parcel rates, rising union leverage, and stiff competition from their peers. Unlike their peers, UPS is unionized (part of the Teamsters), adding additional com...Show More
3) Rubber Stamped CDL Regulations
Commercial Driver's Licenses have been in the news a lot lately, and not for good reasons. A number of fatal accidents have been caused by questionably licensed drivers. These high profile incidents h...Show More
4) OceanGate and the Limits of Supply Base Innovation
On June 18, 2023, the OceanGate TITAN, a submersible on its way to the Titanic wreck site, imploded, killing all five passengers, including OceanGate CEO, Stockton Rush. There were a number of factor...Show More
5) Asset Optimization Isn't a Destination – It's a Discipline
"No trucking company in the history of trucking companies has ever made money if their wheels aren't moving basically all the time." - Sean Devine, Founder and CEO, XBE When costs are high and competi...Show More
6) Inside the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics: Harnessing Creative Destruction
"Capitalism, then, is by nature a form or method of economic change and not only never is but never can be stationary." - Austrian Economist Joseph Schumpeter (1950) The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics ...Show More
7) Intermodal by Design: How Coordination Drives Efficiency W/ Anne Reinke
When it comes to moving freight long distances, you can go from ship to drayage to rail to over-the-road trucking… or you can go intermodal. Intermodal freight transportation combines the advantages o...Show More
8) The Soybean Economy: What’s at Stake in the U.S.–China Trade Talks
Global trading of steel, lumber, and rare earth minerals makes our companies and industries and economies work. And yet, right up there with those examples is an agricultural commodity many people don...Show More
9) Kodiak’s Road to IPO: AI, Defense Contracts, and the Future of Autonomous Trucking
On September 25, 2025, Kodiak, an autonomous truck software company founded in 2018, went public with a $2.5 Billion valuation. Unlike other companies that make the whole truck autonomous, Kodiak retr...Show More
10) Reimagining Reshoring With the Help of 3D Printing
In conversations about reshoring, people usually assume that it means building or retrofitting facilities for U.S. manufacturing, bringing in equipment, and hiring people to operate it. But what if t...Show More