Second, I knew computers affected the development of SCM; that seems obvious. What I didn't realize is that logistics, and inventory management in particular, directly affected the development of *computers*. All three early database models were designed to store inventory data.

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And, indeed, SCMs and LLMs have a great deal in common, from their ravenous appetite for data to the black holes of responsibility at their centers. That's because they share a common heritage in the mid-century sciences of systems.

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The book tells how the profession of supply-chain management came to be, with a focus on the technology companies have used to organize and track their products. We move from the first efforts to track manufacturing with computers during the Cold War to today's hyperscaled supply networks.

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Hey, it’s the official release day for Seeing Like a Supply Chain! And of course I’m swamped with grading and lesson-planning, but maybe I can say a little about the book and the process of researching it. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

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this is spreadsheets for people who like crystals. guess what two things i don't like

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