I've used the term "supply chain" my entire career — and never quite trusted it. Not the words; the mental model they smuggle in. A chain teaches you to hunt for the broken link. But nothing important moves in a line — it moves in a weave, and the failure is never in a single strand or thread. It's in the pattern.
Why I Have Never Quite Been Satisfied with the Term “Supply Chain”
July 25, 2026
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I've used the term "supply chain" my entire career — and never quite trusted it. Not the words; the mental model they smuggle in. A chain teaches you to hunt for the broken link. But nothing important moves in a line — it moves in a weave, and the failure is never in a single strand or thread. It's in the pattern.