Mr. Chair, through you to Ms. Koutrakis, I appreciate that I said those things and those are the things that you took down. Nevertheless, yes, I think that red tape has to be looked at.
I will say that, when I was speaking about sacred cows there—and here I'm going to look at the industry that I represent—supply chain professionals have grown up doing it a certain way. They've been taught to do it a certain way. One of the members, and I hope to follow up with him at some point, asked questions about just-in-time. Just-in-time works in Ron's field and it's critical. It's not critical everywhere.
We have to do supply chain differently. There are a lot of thinkers now who are suggesting that the way we did it, the way we looked at forecasting, because.... This committee's interest is really around transportation and infrastructure, but let's not forget that supply chain is beyond transportation and infrastructure and logistics. It's demand and forecasting. It's a very long end-to-end chain, and it all has to function together.
This notion that we can just get better at forecasting, as one sacred cow, because the supply chain professionals generally think, let's get better at forecasting.... We're not going to get better at forecasting, so we have to get rid of those sacred cows.