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Yeah, my name is Austin Huffard. I'm the US Manufacturing Reporter for the Wall Street Journal.

Austin Huffard 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.

You've talked to a lot of different supply chain professionals. What do they like? Is there like a common personality archetype?

They're like the kind of person who is always, let's just add a little bit more bit, but like when they walk into a restaurant, they're always looking at the exits to make sure something goes wrong.

They know where to go. That's like a good supply chain person. They're always preparing for the worst.

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