Chain Reaction — Weekly Newsletter

Turning satisfactory supply chains into strategic advantage

I write a weekly newsletter for supply chain professionals who are tired of reading about disruptions without a clue on what to do next.

For people who manage complexity every day — and want to stay one step ahead.

Not your typical supply chain read

You already know the field. You don't need another 101. This is what Chain Reaction does differently.

Practitioner Voice

I write from inside the field, not from a consulting slide deck. These are real decisions I face, real trade-offs I weigh — and I don't hide behind jargon.

Signal to Action

Something happened this week. What does it actually mean for your operations? And what can you do about it before Monday? That's the structure of every issue.

Cross-Functional Lens

I talk to purchasing, finance, logistics, planning, and commercial every day. That's the perspective I bring — because a supply chain problem is never just a supply chain problem.

AI Without Hype

I use AI every day in my work. It's powerful when you know what to ask and useless when you don't. I share both sides — no "revolutionary" anything.

Finance Impact Built In

Every issue connects operations to the numbers that matter — P&L, working capital, cash flow. The part you can actually bring to a CFO meeting.

Dense, Not Long

I respect your time. No filler, no "in today's complex landscape." You get the signal, what it means, and what to do. That's it.

A practitioner's read on supply chain

Every week I pick the most relevant signal — a disruption, a policy shift, a data point that most people missed — and I break down what it actually means for someone managing inventory, margins, or supplier relationships. No summaries, no roundups. Just: here's what happened, here's what it means for you, and here's what you might want to do about it.

My name is Fabio Luraschi. I've spent 10 years in inventory and supply chain management in retail and fashion — two industries where complexity is the default and "we've always done it this way" is the enemy. My days look like this: talking to purchasing in the morning, reviewing financials before lunch, solving a logistics issue after, and sitting with commercial to figure out next season's plan. That cross-functional view is what I bring to everything I write.

"Every small thing affects everything."

I started Chain Reaction because I noticed something that kept bothering me: every function in a company operates in its own world. Supply chain talks about service levels, finance talks about ROCE, procurement talks about cost — and nobody translates between them. I sit at the intersection of all these conversations. That's rare. And that's exactly the perspective I think is missing from most supply chain content out there.

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Fabio Luraschi
Inventory Strategy Manager
10 years in retail & fashion · Milan, Italy
Smarter supply chains. No extra complexity.

Five themes, one purpose

These are the angles I keep coming back to. Not because I planned them — because they're what matters most in the work I do every day.

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Signal to Action
Something happened this week. I tell you what it is, why it should be on your radar, and what you can actually do about it. Always with a possible action plan.
02
AI on the Ground
I use AI tools in my daily work and I share what I learn — what actually works, what fails, and why. No hype, no vendor pitches.
03
Risk Intelligence
Geopolitical tensions, route disruptions, trade policy shifts — not as news headlines, but as operational decisions you'll need to make.
04
Finance Meets Supply Chain
This is the angle almost nobody covers well. How your inventory and supply chain decisions hit the P&L, cash flow, and working capital — in language your CFO speaks.
05
The Practitioner's Take
Sometimes I just need to say what I think — about a trend, a tool everyone is hyping, or a practice I've seen fail too many times. This is that space.

What readers are acting on

Every issue is built to be useful the week it comes out. Here's what's been published so far.

#01 Not deciding is still a decision. It's the most expensive one. Signal to Action Coming soon

Conversations with people who do the work

Once a month I sit down with a senior professional — a VP, a director, a strategist — and ask them what they're actually seeing from their side of the chain.

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Exclusive content that goes deeper

The weekly newsletter gives you the signal and the action. These go further — the kind of analysis and tools I build for my own work, now available to you.

Monthly Deep Dives

One topic, explored thoroughly. How to model tariff impact on working capital. When to renegotiate vs. dual-source. The kind of analysis that takes a full afternoon — done for you.

Excel & PowerPoint Tools

Templates I actually use in my job — safety stock calculators, supplier risk scorecards, inventory health dashboards. Practical, not theoretical.

Quarterly Frameworks

Every quarter, a complete operational framework — step by step, ready to adapt. The kind of structured thinking that usually lives inside consulting decks you'd pay thousands for.

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