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Post-pandemic Supply Chains

Enterra Insights

“As countries shut down, stock markets crumble and economic activity slows to a crawl,” writes Yossi Sheffi ( @YossiSheffi ), the Elisha Gray II Professor of Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “it is hard to believe that in a few months the coronavirus crisis may be over.”[1]

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What the Coronavirus Pandemic Means for Global Supply Chains

Shipchain

It is now clear that we have never witnessed anything quite like Coronavirus before, and people, businesses, and supply chains may not be ready for what’s to come. . Coronavirus’s impact on global supply chain operations . Why supply chains are particularly vulnerable. And according to AXIOS , U.S.

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The Strategic National Stockpile that Failed Us

NC State SCRC

[ii] We observed an intense and immediate response by the Joint Acquisition Task Force to rapidly source supplies and quickly institute a robust vendor risk assessment process. However, this task force was at the mercy of long-standing healthcare supply chain and strategic national stockpile (SNS) issues that no one was prepared to face.

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Do Supply Chain Planning systems generate any value?

Kinaxis

by Trevor Miles I have been in the advanced planning and scheduling (APS) space since 1995 when I joined i2 Technologies in Europe. Before that I was in management consulting doing what would be called supply chain design or reengineering today. Let me start with the confusion between planning and execution. Their words.

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Integrated Business Planning: A New Narrative for an Old Process

Supply Chain Trend

Authors Niels van Hove and Hein Regeer explain that while planning and forecasting technologies have benefitted from significant innovations since then, today’s IBP seems unhinged from the day-to-day operations of the business. New Wave 3 Technology can empower a more efficient and responsive planning process.

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Identifying and Mitigating Supply Chain Risk in the Age of COVID-19

Jaggaer

With an ever more connected global economy, and almost instantaneous n ews transmission, the impact of global health has multiplied since the last global (SARS) epidemic in 2003. Identifying Supply Chain Risk Amidst the Chaos . S upply chain risk, in a global pandemic scenario , has five defining characteristics : .

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Three supply chain lessons for businesses coping with COVID-19

CH Robinson Transportfolio

As governments and healthcare agencies around the world work to stop the spread of the coronavirus, importers and exporters across 164 countries are struggling to manage the pandemic’s growing impact on their supply chains. In some companies, supply chain managers recognise the risks of single sourcing, but do so to keep costs low.