This book is billed as a supply chain story: how does a battery charger, made in Viet Nam, reach the front door of a home in Connecticut? Beyond this imagined journey, it is by turns a detailed explication of various advances in AI and automation, a history of the container revolution, an awestruck recitation of the scale of the world’s logistics network, and a history of scientific management, aka Taylorism, Fordism, and Bezosism. It is also a vehicle for Mims’ enthusiasm for numerical analogies, his sympathy for the plight of long-haul truckers, his outrage over Amazon’s treatment of its warehouse workers, his admiration for labor unions, and his speculation about the next big things in robot delivery, driverless trucks, and automated warehouses. Quite a package.
Despite the scope, the occasionally tedious repetitions, and the periodic run-on, riff-on writing style, it’s a great read with a cogent message: we are well on our way to a global, fully-automated goods-distribution network that will make traditional retailing largely superfluous.
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How Do Supply Chains Work?
Most people do not understand the enormous coordination problem that must be solved in order to make the world around them possible. In Arriving Today, Christopher Mim's attempts to correct that problem by explaining the supply chain for a deceptively simple product in terms that anyone can understand and relate to. It reminds me of the definition for a supply chain my son came up with 5 years ago, when he was 9 years old and asked me one day, "What is a supply chain."The book is great because Chris weaves in important conversations about Economic Systems, Technology, and Social Systems. This matters because supply chains are formed from a complex and interconnected network of social, environmental, and economic systems and changes in technology and the need for the world to respond to the climate crisis means that the supply chains we take for granted are entering an extended period of sustained change and transformation as humanity refashions them to make them fit for the purpose of meeting the challenges of this century.This is a topic everyone should understand. I own the ebook and the audiobook, and I bought two extra copies for my teenage son and his cousin.
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