John C. Kill
Fractional Chief Procurement Officer & founder of JC Kill Consulting, serving manufacturers with 25+ years of supply chain leadership across GE, Visteon, Blue Bird, and Finish Thompson.
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Aug 5, 2026
John C. KillGUEST
So it was, it w- you know, you, you'd come over the hill and if you saw it, saw an empty lot, you just, you knew it was gonna be rough.
John C. KillGUEST
Um, so that's really where that sense of tenacity and willing, being able to Just grind on a problem is what's so important within supply chain.
John C. KillGUEST
So you, you've got to have the parts and then you've gotta make backup plans and make sure everybody knows what's going on.
John C. KillGUEST
Um, [lip smack] very recently, uh, we had a-- One of our customers had a vendor fail, and they came to us for an emergency resource.
Eric BerglundHOST
How do you, how do you set people up to grow and have those types of low-risk failure opportunities in supply chain where failure is really expensive?