How did the supply chain originate? How did it evolve? Why do we even need it?

A phrase that entered the American vocabulary during the COVID pandemic was the supply chain. It is hard to read online much about food in the country without running across the supply chain. It is responsible for food waste, global warming, shortages of goods in stores, high prices at the supermarket, and overall consumer dissatisfaction and dismay, or so we read, but there may be … Continue reading How did the supply chain originate? How did it evolve? Why do we even need it?