Laura is a Canadian-based freelance business writer with a supply chain focus. She brings with her over twenty years of industry experience in the manufacturing sector and has a serious love for procurement and all things supply chain.

Supply Chain Risk Management

Laura V. Garcia|Feb 25, 2021| magazine

6 min read

Supply chain leaders rejoice; Resiliency at the White House

Read NowAs President Joe Biden issues an executive order on America's most critical supply chains, supply chain leaders rejoice

Latest Articles

Walmart’s $14B supply chain moves

Preparing for growth Walmart makes the moves on supply chain, investing $14B in automation and increasing capacities

Laura V. Garcia

|Feb 22, 2021| magazine

5 min read

Canada’s vaccine strategy; a lesson in poor risk management

In the race to vaccinate populations, Canada lags behind as it awaits shipments from Europe and gives us a lesson in the costs of poor risk management

Laura V. Garcia

|Feb 22, 2021| magazine

9 min read

IBM Watson AI XPRIZE; Leveraging AI for the good of people

The IBM Watson AI XPRIZE finalists; Leveraging AI in the fight against human trafficking, malaria and mental health

Laura V. Garcia

|Feb 20, 2021| magazine

10 min read

BT Sourced ; BT's new procurement company in Dublin

Cyril Pourrat, Chief Procurement Officer, establishes BT's new procurement company in Dublin - welcome to BT Sourced

Laura V. Garcia

|Feb 18, 2021| magazine

5 min read

GEP: Five Dos and Don'ts for Procurement

GEP lists five proven ways to limit career growth and success in procurement in new white paper

Laura V. Garcia

|Feb 17, 2021| magazine

8 min read

DHL: Benchmarking resiliency with Dell

In just 30 days DHL and Dell Technologies redesigned the supply chain and increased agility while mitigating risks. We take a look.

Laura V. Garcia

|Feb 12, 2021| magazine

5 min read

Tech Trends Making for a Seamless Customer Experience

A seamless omnichannel experience, flexible buy and return policies, on or offline, today’s customers want it all. Tech is giving it to them.

Laura V. Garcia

|Feb 12, 2021| magazine

6 min read

Fast Fashion and Fossil Fuels: The Impacts of Cheap Fashion

Fossil Fashion report reveals how fast fashion is snowballing into widespread pollution, a waste crisis, and the exploitation of workers

Laura V. Garcia

|Feb 10, 2021| magazine

7 min read

$120BN; The Heavy Costs of Risk Lurking in Your Supply Chain

CDP's Global Supply Chain Report 2020 shows the environmental risks that could total $120bn by 2026 that lurk in supply chains

Laura V. Garcia

|Feb 09, 2021| magazine

5 min read

Warehouse 4.0 ─ Today's Tech for Today's Problems

A new era of tech-centric warehouse solutions brings efficiency, accuracy and scalability, placing supply chain at the heart of Industry 4.0

Laura V. Garcia

|Feb 08, 2021| magazine

16 min read

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