Table of Contents – Supply Chain Resources and Business Information.
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- Amazon Supply Chain, Apple Supply Chain, Artificial Intelligence
- Automation, CEO Advice, Continuous Improvement
- Distribution, Fulfillment, Inventory, Industry 4.0, Last Mile Delivery
- Lean Manufacturing, Logistics, Manufacturing, Robots
- Self Driving and Autonomous Vehicles, Strategy and Planning
- Supplier Management/Procurement, Tesla Supply Chain,
- Toyota Supply Chain, Trucking, Walmart Supply Chain
Amazon Supply Chain
How Amazon Beat Supply Chain Chaos.
How Amazon’s Supply Chain Management Strategy Works?
Amazon Reveals Warehouse Robots For Sorting Packages and Fully Autonomous Mobile Robot.
Apple Supply Chain
Apple CEO Tim Cook: No Supply Chain More Critical Than China.
Apple Lab Makes Custom Chips For iPhone And Mac.
Why Apple is Rushing to Move Production Out of China.
Artificial Intelligence
How many robots does it take to run a grocery store?
What CEOs Should know about AI.
Elon Musk Launches Grok 3.
Automation (Supply Chain)
AGV, ASRS, Warehouse Distribution Automation
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang on Robotics and AI.
Digitize Supply Chain with Artificial Intelligence.
Business Strategy
Finding Your Company’s Core Competencies
What is a PEST Analysis (PESTLE).
What Is Strategy? It’s a Lot Simpler Than You Think.
CEO Advice
CEOs with Supply Chain Experience.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Quotes.
Advice from TOP CEOs: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook.
Continuous Improvement
Elon Musk and First Principles Thinking.
First Principles: Elon Musk Method of Thinking
Porter’s 5 Forces That Make Companies Successful
Distribution, Fulfillment, Inventory
Why Amazon, Walmart, UPS and Others Are Filling Warehouses Along the Arizona 303 Highway.
Dark Factory – Automated Factory with Minimal Human Involvement.
The Bullwhip Effect – Cheat Sheet.
Industry 4.0
Future of Manufacturing: Industry 4.0 & Smart Manufacturing.
Blockchain for Supply Chain – Cheat Sheet.
What is blockchain? – Supply Chain Today
Last Mile Delivery/Drones
Why Walmart And Alphabet Are Beating Amazon In Drone Delivery
Alphabet’s Wing Drone Partnership with Walmart.
Amazon Drone Delivery in California. It’s Happening.
Lean Manufacturing
How Toyota used its Supply Chain Model to beat FORD & GM.
Lean Manufacturing | A pursuit of perfection.
Kaizen (Continuous Improvement): Secret behind Japanese Productivity
Logistics
Evolution of Stretch the Warehouse Robot | Boston Dynamics.
5 Amazing Warehouse Robots for Fulfilment and Distribution Centers.
What is the Future of Self Driving Cars?
Manufacturing
Top ERP Failures – Enterprise Resources Planning.
Toyota Production System Jidoka: Stopping Production, a Call Button and Andon.
How Maker’s Mark Produces 34 Million Bottles Of Bourbon A Year
Quotes
Robots (Advanced)
Artificial Intelligence Learns MMA. What else can it learn?
Nvidia GROOT vs. Tesla Optimus: Competing Paths to Humanoid Robots
Spot doing Autonomous Inspections at the Nestlé Purina Factory.
Self Driving and Autonomous Vehicles
Are Driverless Trucks The Future Of Shipping? Inside Waymo’s New Test Program.
Deploying 2,000 Uber Eats delivery robots across US.
How do Electric Cars Work? Parts & Functions.
Strategy and Planning
Finding Your Company’s Core Competencies
What is a PEST Analysis (PESTLE).
What Is Strategy? It’s a Lot Simpler Than You Think.
Supplier Management/Procurement
Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) – Cheat Sheet.
Supplier Collaboration – Cheat Sheet.
Supply Chain Training Resources
Tesla Supply Chain
Toyota vs Tesla – Supply Chain
Game Over! Elon Musk and the Tesla Gigapress!
The Frightening Economics Of The Tesla Semi
Toyota Supply Chain
Toyota Way–‘The 14 Principles of the Toyota Way’
Toyota Supply Chain Management
Artificial Intelligence Based Future Logistics by Toyota
Trucking
How Aurora Got Self-Driving Trucks On The Road.
15 Future Trucks and Buses You Must See.
Yellow: Inside American Trucking’s Largest Bankruptcy.
Walmart Supply Chain
Walmart Grocery Business Is Beating Everyone.
Known for Supply Chain: Amazon, Apple, Walmart, Toyota.
WALMART SUPPLY CHAIN BEST PRACTICES | MBA CASE STUDY

Supply Chain and Logistics Quotes
- “If you don’t understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance. The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.” ~W. Edwards Deming
- “I can’t say it enough that learning how to learn is one of the greatest skills anyone can have.” ~Mark Cuban.
- “Many people think that Lean is about cutting heads, reducing the work force or cutting inventory. Lean is really a growth strategy. It is about gaining market share and being prepared to enter in or create new markets.” ~Ernie Smith
- “Supply Chain is like nature, it is all around us.” ~Dave Waters
- “Because of my wartime experience, I am insistent on the point that logistics know-how must be maintained, that logistic is second to nothing in importance in warfare, that logistic training must be widespread and thorough.” ~ADM Robert B. Carney, USN.
- “If you’re not willing to fail – and we are failing at some things – you’re going to go away. Retailers come and go. It’s really simple: If you’re not meeting the wants and needs of the customer, you’re done.” ~Doug McMillon, CEO of Walmart.
- “Self-driving vehicles, automatically choosing the most efficient route… Artificial Intelligence will dramatically improve logistics.” ~Dave Waters
- “Today, computing mainly automates things for you, but when we connect all these things, you can truly start assisting people in a more meaningful way. If I go and pick up my kids, it would be good for my car to be aware that my kids have entered the car and change the music to something that’s appropriate for them.” ~Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet/Google.