I talk with Gyöngyi Kovács, using the magic of Skype, about Sustainable Supply Chains, and what it means to focus on sustainment as a core principle in supply chain management. To learn more about Professor Kovács, visit her profile at http://www.hanken.fi/staff/kovacs/. She has a strong research and personal interest in sustainment, and in humanitarian supply chain issues. Visit http://humloggroup.org to learn more.

We chat with Dr Peter Swan from Penn State University, in Harrisburg. His recent study (with Michael Belzer of Wayne State University) found that increased privatization of highways may increase the traffic on what are perceived to be free roads (of course, they carry costs--just not directly billed.)

According to a Penn State press release:

The number of diverted trucks is important to both the State of Ohio and the nation for economic and social reasons.

I talk once again with Gyöngyi Kovács, using the magic of Skype, about Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chains. To learn more about Professor Kovács, visit her profile at http://www.hanken.fi/staff/kovacs/. She has a strong research and personal interest in sustainment, and in humanitarian supply chain issues. Visit http://humloggroup.org to learn more.

I talk with Tony Pittman about "Services Supply Chains" and how that is similar to, and different from, product oriented supply chains. Tony shares with us some of the unique and interesting challenges associated with this, and then he turns the tables on me, asking what students say when we start talking about services rather than products. We also talk about how Tony went from engineering to supply chains.