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It appears every supply chain I know of is in the middle of a big transformation. In many cases people misread the COVID Pandemic surge as a "new normal" and many invested heavily only to be shown that the idea of mean reversion is serious business. This is affecting even big and very sophisticated supply chains. Today we learned The Home Depot is even relooking at the supply chain efforts started during the COVID period ( H/T: Supply Chain Dive ).
With great fanfare, just a few short years ago, Home Depot talked about the investment of $1.2 billion to create the "One Supply Chain" . Today we learned they are now embarking on a $500M cost reduction in their supply chain as sales "return to normal". This is happening all over as we discussed previously ( Amazon adjusts) and is not unique to Home Depot. So, what are these transformations is missing? How do we whipsaw so quickly? Again, this is pervasive across many companies so I think it is worth thin