Laura V. Garcia

F Trump, F Putin—it's time to create friction The reason I’ve always loved supply chains is that their outcomes depict who we are as a collective species and as a society. They are our biggest tell—the accountants of our hearts, minds, and more relevantly, when it comes to AI—habits and patterns; our wins and losses, tallied by the circularity gap, our collective progress scored against the UN’s 17 development goals, reflecting all that is humanity. And the numbers aren’t good. Progress...

Executive Summary: The Great Circularity Paradox Lots of talk. Little action. And a consumer “trust crisis” bubbling to the surface. Circularity is a 2026 megatrend in the boardroom—but a trust crisis on the street. While global circularity discussions have tripled since 2020, the global circularity rate fell to a record low of 6.9% in 2025 ( Circularity Gap Report 2025 ). In just five years (2018–2023), humanity consumed more than 500 gigatonnes of materials—28% of all materials extracted...

Procurement leaders now face a cybersecurity mandate. A sustained zero-day attack—likely tied to the ArcaneDoor campaign—has exposed a severe flaw in aging Cisco ASA hardware. Unlike typical vulnerabilities, this isn’t a problem IT can patch away. The only solution is asset retirement and replacement. “These devices sit at the edge of thousands of Canadian organizations,” warned senior adviser Mike Gropp, describing the flaw as “a front door breaking on the very devices that guard corporate and