Prior to 2020, the majority of everyday consumers didn’t think much about the global supply chain; some may not have even understood what that meant or at all how it works. Thanks to nearly three years of severe disruption, post-pandemic factors such as spiked product demand and nationwide media coverage, supply chain is now a topic of conversation that will come up at nearly any dinner table.
If you ask Katie Poehling Seymour, president and CEO of fifth-generation family-led distribution powerhouse First Supply, and the incoming American Supply Association (ASA) president, she will tell you now is the time to take full advantage of the newfound press wholesale distribution has recently gained.