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November 2026
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Supply chain & operations9 min readAre small, local supply chains more resilient? The 2020 meat plants
For owners and operations managers weighing whether to split their sourcing or pay for a standby option. Hobbs's reflective paper on food supply chains, with North American meat plants in 2020 as its main case, suggests dispersed chains are not clearly sturdier. Includes a hypothetical worksheet.
Data & analytics10 min readWhen history fails: how Starbucks forecast through COVID
For owners and finance directors who must plan when past years no longer help to extrapolate. Starbucks withdrew its guidance, published what it could, then reissued ranges; this post sets those ranges against what happened.