August 22, 2021

“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.”

— Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft

Toyota Cuts Shows Covid Ravaging Even Best Supply Planners | 2021-08-20 | SupplyChainBrain

U.S. Natural Gas Dominance May Be Coming To An End | OilPrice.com

Automakers work to increase transparency into semiconductor supply | Supply Chain Dive

Five Facts on Broadband in America | RealClearPolicy

Never going back to the office? Facebook has an app for that. - Vox

Congestion pricing in NYC, subway tunnels in San Francisco are being held up by environmental reviews, a perverse policy that rarely delays roads. (slate.com)

Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (August 20, 2021) (talkinglogistics.com)

The need to know | Reuters Events | Supply Chain & Logistics Business Intelligence

The “Probability” of Supply Chain ROI (scdigest.com)