- 1. Healthcare Supply Chain at Risk
- (News)
- According to NBC News, China’s covid surge could affect the healthcare supply chain. As Covid infections surge across China, the U.S. again risks falling short of medical supplies as that country struggles ...
- 2. In Order to free up Shelf Space, Retailers are offering Black Friday Deals Today
- (Retail)
- If you’re anything like me, you’ll plan on beginning your holiday shopping early - but somehow always end up ordering last minute gifts on Amazon days before Christmas. While there are benefits to finishing ...
- 3. Supply Chain Strategies to End the Year
- (Supply)
- ... Capacity buffer: Leveraging underutilized space such as production facilities and warehouses. Diversify your manufacturing and sourcing As learned from COVID-19 and lessons from changing geopolitics, ...
- 4. Supply Chain Issues Bring Manufacturers Back to the US
- (Supply)
- The Covid 19 pandemic has changed the way we look at the supply chain industry. Prior to the pandemic many organizations headquartered in America opted to manufacture products overseas as both materials ...
- 5. Consumers Starting Holiday Shopping Early Amid Supply Chain Disruption
- (Logistics)
- “A lot of the challenges that we have been experiencing this year will continue into next year,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg confessed while on CNN’s “State of the Union” about the ongoing ...
- 6. KKR Releases “A New Era for Supply Chains”
- (News)
- ... environment, more inward-looking national politics and increasing supranational risks such as climate change and public health. 3. Supply chain thinking needs to incorporate a more holistic view – ...
- 7. USPS Struggles to Deliver Election Ballots
- (Logistics)
- ... – over a 50% jump from 2016. Politics aside, this is a huge increase in mail-in-ballots especially during a pandemic. For most of the year the pandemic has been a major hurdle to the supply chain industry ...
- 8. Strategic Paths to Supply Chain Growth
- (Management)
- ... and geopolitics. These factors are forcing most of the global supply chain players to re-examine the business continuity plans and risks and embrace new strategies in their sourcing approaches that will ...
- 9. Supply Chains are Critical
- (News)
- ... morphed into a strategic business initiative combining technological adoption, event forecasting and even politics: awareness of its complexities has never been higher thanks to threats of a trade war ...
- 10. Supply Chains Prepare for Political Impacts
- (News)
- The frenetic and sometimes chaotic-seeming political atmosphere we've been experiencing tends to keep supply chain managers and planners up at night.Thankfully, thoughtful analysts like Bob Ferrarri are ...
- 11. A Broader Set of 2017 Predictions
- (News)
- Many publications stick to technology in making predictions for the future. One thing I really like about the Supply Chain Matters site is its broader perspective.In his annual article on the new year's ...
- 12. A Rough Ride Ahead
- (News)
- Business leaders crave consistency. Our recent presidential election has introduced a dose of unpredictability into events, and executives are trying to make decisions based on guesses and assumptions.Bob ...
- 13. Geopolitics and the Supply Chain
- (News)
- As supply chains have become more global, it's not a surprise that geopolitical happenings can affect business processes worldwide. Dan Gilmore provides his views on the research done on this topic in ...
- 14. We Won't Get Fooled Again - The Replacement of ED
- (Management)
- The economics of EDI are closely connected with the politics of the supply chain. What started as a utility for moving order information between trading partners has become at times, a battlefield over ...
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