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Yeah, my name is Austin Hufford.

I'm the US Manufacturing Reporter for the Wall Street Journal.

Austin Hufford writes about factories and manufacturing, which means a lot of what he

writes about is supply chains.

What's a supply chain?

Basically, it's everything that needs to happen in a very specific sequence to turn raw

materials into a finished product.

So, for instance, that phone in your pocket.

The supply chain means mining the aluminum in it, fabricating the silicon chips, transporting

all these materials around to the different factories where they're assembled and combined.

It means workers, warehouses, containerships.

It's a whole incredibly complex choreography in which any one step could go bad and derail

the entire process.

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