In supply chain operations, when an employee makes an error, there can be major consequences — whether it be the safety of our workers on the shop floor or the…
I’m not sure about you, but for me remembering life pre-COVID-19 is beginning to get more and more difficult. It is all encompassing. Work, home, family, friends, news, sports —…
The supply chain demand planning process in most companies, regardless of industry, will not come out of the COVID-19 period unscathed. This global disruption might have a silver lining: if…
For years, the shifting needs of the customer — and how to serve these needs — have been top of mind for the supply chain profession. More choice, faster delivery…
COVID-19, which started as a disruption in China, is now a global pandemic, humanitarian crisis and financial meltdown. This coronavirus has brought dips in capacity and closed some factories. China…
It is hard to believe how quickly the COVID-19 situation deteriorated last week. In the United States, it was a steady drumbeat of surreal news alerts — sports seasons cancelled,…
COVID-19 is the biggest disruption to hit global supply chains since the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan in 2011. The scale, reach and speed at which this coronavirus…
Supply chains are much like financial markets — neither does well with uncertainty, but to deal with it they both look for parallels to help determine how to make sense…
If you live in a snowy, cold environment like I do, you have two choices: you can trudge through short, dark days of winter, daydreaming of warm days ahead, or…
It’s no longer a secret that supply chains are becoming more complex. Customers are becoming more demanding and their preferences are under constant change. We know this by looking at…