Among all the serious materials we have here at SCDigest, I must say the idea to have a supply chain cartoon caption contest to lighten things up a bit was among our better initiatives.
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Except it wasn't really my idea. The illustrator who draws our cartoons actually reached out to me in 2009, seeing if I would be interested in such an idea. He was doing a caption contest for a web site that focused on industrial automation equipment (PLCs and such), and decided to look around for similar opportunities.
He was actually concepting and illustrating each cartoon, but I didn't think that work for us - you have to have the doman knowledge. So I said "We'll concept, you draw" and that's how we got started.
It has been a big hit. We regularly receive emails from readers saying the cartoon captions bring some laughs that help a bit with the near constant stress that can be part of supply chain.
I must say though that after 10 years, coming up with new ideas is a bit of a challenge - but we still get it done, though keep each new cartoon open a bit longer these days.
Every couple of years, as we hit the August slow period between vacactions and back to school, we run some of our favorite winning entries for select cartoons.
Hope you enjoy.
First, from earlier this year was this winning entry from John Bermudez of Infor - our favorite of 2019:
Next, Brian Spooner of Columbus, OH chipped in with this great caption on the impact of AI on supply chain planning from this past May:
Next up, this winning entry in late 2018 Meredith James of Tampa took home the prize with this geat caption on supply chain resolutions for the coming year:
From early 2018, Michael Massetti of Gartner wa a co-winner with this great caption:
Finally for this year is the funny caption from Q4 2018 by Sue Grimmler of Troy, MI:
Hope those brought at least a few chuckles. Current and soon ending contest can be found here:
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