Procurement, operations & the systems behind better work.

Now

What I'm working on and reading

Working on

  • Ameioud. Developing this site as a record of my work in procurement, operations, and automation.
  • The Logistics Automator. Improving carrier selection and exception handling inside the Operations Hub.
  • Better project documentation. Writing case studies that explain decisions without exposing private systems.

Reading

  • Chip War Better than the coverage suggested. The part on how the US export control regime actually works is worth the whole book.
  • The Economist On Indo-Pacific supply chain restructuring. Less useful as analysis, more useful as a tracker of which companies are actually moving and which are just issuing statements.

Thinking about

  • Transition costs. Most cost-reduction initiatives in supply chain underestimate them. The savings numbers are usually right. The timeline and friction are not.
  • Owning versus running. The difference between owning a process and running a tool that manages it. Organizations increasingly do the second while believing they're doing the first.