The Invisible Thread argues that supply chains aren't abstract logistics diagrams — they're the quiet, mostly invisible machinery that gets everything from toilet paper to microchips into your hands, and it only makes headlines when it breaks. Opening with the 2020 toilet paper panic and the Ever Given grounding in the Suez Canal, the book uses these real-world shocks to introduce core supply chain concepts — the bullwhip effect, chokepoints, and the central tension between efficiency and resilience. From there it moves through the building blocks of the discipline (procurement, inventory, logistics, forecasting, supplier relationships, risk), the forces reshaping it (sustainability, blockchain, data and analytics, last-mile delivery, agriculture), and major stress tests like COVID-19 and Boeing's supplier failures, before closing on where the field is headed — AI, reshoring, and a post-pandemic shift toward resilience over pure efficiency. Its throughline: a supply chain isn't a machine that happens to have people in it — it's people, occasionally arranged to look like a machine.
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