Supply Chain by Jim Tompkins
January 2023
It’s 2023, not 1177 B.C.
So why would I headline a supply chain
column with a reference to the year
Bronze Age civilizations collapsed? Because
historians say, just like in our current
era, supply chain chaos defined the
disintegration of Bronze Age civilizations
like the Mycenaeans, Minoans and Hittites.
Other major empires like the Egyptians
and Assyrians survived but were
weakened as the 2,000-year-old Bronze
Age crumbled.
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