supply chain management

2025 Winter Reading Guide

Art Koch’s Profit Chain® Tips
Art on the Business Creators’ Radio Show
Volume 6 | Number 7 | March 2025

My book – The Supply Chain Revolution: Unlocking the Sustainable Profit Chain – has been included in Inbound Logistics’ 2025 Winter Reading Guide!

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Interview: Art on the Business Creators’ Radio Show

Art Koch’s Profit Chain® Tips
Art on the Business Creators’ Radio Show
Volume 6 | Number 6 | February 2025

In this interview with Adam Hommey for the Business Creators’ Radio Show, we talked about the correlation between scuba diving and mastering supply chain management. Listen to the interview for my thoughts on the biggest problem facing SCM organizations … and more.

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Interview with Edward Fulbright on the Mastering Your Money Podcast

Art Koch’s Profit Chain® Tips
Art on the Mastering Your Money Podcast
Volume 6 | Number 4 | January 2025

Inventory bloat … broken processes … no customer loyalty … Supply chain management taught in business school hardly breaks the surface in solving these real challenges. It’s time to dive deep, and think outside the box. Edward Fulbright and I discuss my scuba diving analogy and my fool-proof approach you can use to ramp up your SCM.

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Leading Supply Chain Teams: 4 Strategies for High Performance

In today’s tight labor market, leaders need avenues to nurture all their associates to excel beyond what they ever thought they could achieve.
Take these four critical steps to significantly boost your team’s engagement, development, and performance.

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Book Review: Saby Samar for Saby Reviews

Book review by Saby Samar

Art Koch’s Profit Chain® Tips
The Supply Chain Revolution: Unlocking the Sustainable Profit Chain
Book Review
Volume 5 | Number 25 | December 2024

I was pleased to learn that my book “The Supply Chain Revolution – Unlocking the Sustainable Profit Chain” was reviewed by Saby Samar for their blog and also at Goodreads! 5 Stars! Read the review here.

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Modeling Piece Price Comparisons for Local and Regional Suppliers Versus Low-Cost Country Initiatives

As a procurement officer, you’ve possibly been in the crosshairs of debate between sourcing locally and regionally versus from low-cost countries endorsed by many executive staff and boards of directors. 

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The Supply Chain Revolution: What’s Inside – Chapters 10, 11 and 12?

Cover image for a YouTube video featuring Art Koch and his book 'The Supply Chain Revolution: Unlocking the Sustainable Profit Chain'

Art Koch’s Profit Chain® Tips
The Supply Chain Revolution: Unlocking the Sustainable Profit Chain
Volume 5 | Number 23 | December 2024

I’m going to do my What’s Inside the Book series slightly differently this month. Here I cover three chapters – what you’ll find in Chapters 10, 11 and 12! It’s all about the phases of Entropy Busters®.

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Book Review: Celeste Hann for The Book Revue

Art Koch’s Profit Chain® Tips
The Supply Chain Revolution: Unlocking the Sustainable Profit Chain
Book Review
Volume 5 | Number 22 | December 2024

Celeste Hann from The Book Revue kindly gave my book, The Supply Chain Revolution: Unlocking the Sustainable Profit Chain, 5 stars. You can read the review here.  

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Supply Chain Entropy Busters: 3 Phases to Accelerate Processes

boxes stacking up in a warehouse symbolising inventory mismanagement

Have you ever considered the impact of entropy on your business — let alone your supply chain? If you haven’t, you’re not alone. It was only during my undergraduate studies, while talking with a physics professor about my career, that I began to consider it.

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The Supply Chain Revolution: What’s Inside – Chapter 8?

Cover image for a YouTube video featuring Art Koch and his book 'The Supply Chain Revolution: Unlocking the Sustainable Profit Chain'

Art Koch’s Profit Chain® Tips
The Supply Chain Revolution: Unlocking the Sustainable Profit Chain
Volume 5 | Number 19 | November 2024

Back to sharing what’s inside my book The Supply Chain Revolution: Unlocking the Sustainable Profit Chain! Let’s have a look at what’s inside Chapter 8: The Art of Equalization: Achieving Balance in Materials and Inventory Control.

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