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Supply chain Currents
| 题名： | Supply chain Currents |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | Brooks A. Bentz |
| 作者单位： | Industry Advisory Group National Railroad Hall of Fame |
| 摘要： | WITH MORE THAN 50 YEARS OF SUPPLY CHAIN, logistics and freight transportation experience on my resume, taking on a monthly column about what's happening in our world is actually a new adventure for me. Indeed, the pandemic provided a good illustration on how brittle and complex global supply chain networks are, so there's a wide swath of subjects for this column, which I intended to start exploring this month. Then Norfolk Southern had a catastrophic derailment in Ohio, which has been front-page news since it happened on February 3. When asked for my take on the derailment by Jim Hagen, retired CEO of Conrail, I said I thought a variety of interest groups were using this incident to beat the drum for their favorite cause. 1. Labor argued that this was evidence of why a two-man crew mandate was required-even though there were three men on this train. 2. Some have picked away at the braking system. A New York Times op-ed piece referred to it as "Civil War-era" braking technology (George Westinghouse, 1868), pointing out that higher-tech electronic braking was available, yet the railroads fought it. 3. It has become a political shuttlecock, being batted back and forth as the partisan politician's hurl accusations at each other. 4. And, there have been a number of aspersions cast about corporate greed being the root cause, stemming from Precision Scheduled Railroading (PSR) and the related reductions in operating costs through job cuts and reduction of infrastructure, such as closing yards and terminals. |
| 出版年： | 2023 |
| 期刊名称： | Logistics Management |
| 卷： | 62 |
| 期： | 4 |
| 页码： | 14-14 |
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