10 Min For Supply Chain

🧱 This week the US tariff rate hit a record 11.7% — and for the first time, the MAJORITY of US imports carry a new duty.

But here's what actually matters: trade isn't waiting around. It's already climbing over the wall.

The milestone numbers this week:
📊 11.7% applied tariff rate — a historical high
📊 54% of all US goods imports now covered
🔴 Canada's retaliation live ($27.6B of US goods)

Most coverage stops at the scary number. The real story is the adaptation.

In this briefing

▪️ The 3 escape routes trade is taking RIGHT NOW (regional, digital, narrower SKUs)
▪️ Why reshoring finally moved from press release to practice (36% of OEMs, up from 29%)
▪️ Why "one ocean, many prices" makes the freight average useless (USWC +5%, Med −10%)
▪️ Why record $5.85 diesel matters even as line-haul rates soften
▪️ What CBP's looming disclosure rule means for your sub-tier sourcing

Also inside:
→ THE CLIMB: the tariff rate's record rise, in one chart
→ How trade is routing around the wall (the adaptation map)
→ The tragic Amazon Air Miami crash — and its capacity ripple
→ Why rising trade VALUE isn't rising demand (it's mostly price)
→ A 5-move playbook for a wall that isn't coming down

If you source or move anything across a border, you needed this.

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P.S. The firms winning Q4 aren't waiting for the wall to fall. They're climbing it. Members have the map.

#SupplyChain #Tariffs #Trade #Logistics

2 hours ago | [YT] | 2

10 Min For Supply Chain

☕ How many baristas does a coffee shop really need?

Too few → long queues & waiting.

Too many → idle labour & unnecessary cost.

I built an Excel M/M/c + Erlang C Queue & Staffing Optimizer to solve it.

Enter:
• Arrival rate
• Service rate
• # Baristas
• Labour cost
• Waiting cost

Get:

📊 Utilisation
📊 P(wait)
📊 Queue length
📊 Waiting time
📊 Labour vs waiting cost
📊 Optimal staffing level

Illustrative case:

90 customers/hr
40 customers/hr/barista

➡️ 3 baristas = 75% utilisation, 1.1 min avg wait
➡️ 4 baristas = $81/hr lowest total cost

The same concept applies to retail, call centres, healthcare, logistics and service operations.

Queueing Theory turns staffing guesses into data-driven decisions.

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2 hours ago | [YT] | 0

10 Min For Supply Chain

🚨 Solution SUPPLY CHAIN CASE STUDY — CASE 04

🏥 How much Safety Stock should a medical supplies distributor hold?

You’re given:

📊 120 units/day demand
📈 18 units/day standard deviation
⏱️ 9-day lead time
🎯 97.5% service level
📦 12 units/case

Your challenge:

Calculate the RIGHT Safety Stock + Reorder Point.

⚠️ One wrong Z-value or rounding decision can change the answer.

I break down the complete Safety Stock & Inventory Management Case Study step-by-step.

👉 Watch the solution video👀

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1 day ago | [YT] | 0

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🚨 7 Retail Supply Chain KPIs you MUST track

Generic KPIs aren't enough for retail.

Focus on:

1️⃣ On-Shelf Availability (OSA)
2️⃣ Sell-Through %
3️⃣ Stock-to-Sales Ratio
4️⃣ Forward Cover / WOS
5️⃣ GMROI
6️⃣ Markdown Rate
7️⃣ Sales per Store

The real power comes from connecting them:

Low Sell-Through → Excess Stock → Markdown → Lower GMROI

Low OSA → Lost Sales → Lower Store Productivity

Retail supply chain is about having the right product, right store, right time — profitably.

🎥 Full video with formulas + examples.

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1 day ago | [YT] | 4

10 Min For Supply Chain

How many days of inventory does your business actually have?

A surprisingly useful metric for answering this is Days of Inventory on Hand (DOH).

In this new video, I explain how to calculate DOH in just 2 minutes, using a simple example:

Average Inventory = $2M
COGS = $12M
DOH ≈ 61 Days

But the calculation is only the starting point.

DOH helps supply chain and inventory professionals understand how much capital is tied up in inventory and identify opportunities to improve inventory efficiency and working capital.

In the video, I cover:
→ What DOH actually measures
→ The formula and calculation
→ A practical example
→ How to interpret the result
→ Why DOH matters for inventory management and supply chain performance

🎥 Watch the full video and try the calculation with your own numbers.

How many days of inventory does your company carry?

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5 days ago | [YT] | 5

10 Min For Supply Chain

🪃 For 18 months, the tariff war went one way: the US imposed, the world absorbed.

This week it became a boomerang. And it has a date: September 8.

That's when Canada's retaliation lands , 15%, 25% and 50% on ~700 US-origin products.

Here's what most people miss about retaliation:

A US tariff raises the cost of what you IMPORT.
A retaliatory tariff raises the price of what you EXPORT , making your goods more expensive in someone else's market, on purpose.

If you sell into Canada, your demand just took a hit. Most exporters spent the whole year watching only their import bill. They're about to get surprised.

Also inside:
→ THE BOOMERANG: the war going two-way, in one picture
→ Your September deadline calendar (print it, pin it)
→ Why Mexico just ran the table as the #1 US supplier
→ Why pharma is the next tariff frontier
→ A 5-move playbook before Sept 8

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P.S. Retaliation targets the products chosen to hurt most. Members know if theirs are on the list. Do you?

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1 week ago | [YT] | 8

10 Min For Supply Chain

🚨 CASE 04 HAS DROPPED!

Can you calculate the correct safety stock for a medical supplies distributor?

Here's your challenge:

🏥 Hospitals depend on sterile suture kits being available when needed.

The distributor has:

120 units/day average demand
18 units/day demand variability
9-day replenishment lead time
97.5% required service level
12 units/case packaging constraint

Now the planner has to answer one critical question:

🎯 HOW MUCH SAFETY STOCK?

But there's a catch…

You can't simply pick a round number.

You need to:

📊 Find the correct Z-value
🧮 Calculate safety stock
📦 Round correctly to full cases
🔄 Calculate the Reorder Point

And if you round down instead of up, you could quietly violate the required 97.5% service level.

🔐 WANT TO SOLVE THE FULL CASE?

Case 04 is available exclusively to Insider Club members.

👉 JOIN INSIDER CLUB & ACCESS CASE 04 : youtube.com/channel/UC2FoqHLrh7XCe5vF2LgpXcA/join

Join the Insider Club to get:

✅ Full case
✅ Complete data
✅ Constraints
✅ Questions to solve
✅ Your chance to make the calculation yourself
✅ Complete solution revealed tomorrow

Don't just learn the Safety Stock formula.

TEST YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN THINKING.

Can you get the one correct answer? 👀

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1 week ago | [YT] | 7