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Peril of EV Start-Ups: Fisker’s Investor Warning

Supply Chain Matters

According to a published report by The Wall Street Journal ( Paid subscription ), this asset light company has recently elected to transition its business model to an auto dealership based vehicle distribution model. Shipping new vehicles from Austria to the U.S. based dealer network.

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Where are all the N95 Masks? A Supply Chain Dilemma

NC State SCRC

And when President Trump went into his briefing today, he started rattling off numbers of masks being shipped…but what gives? The shortage of N95 masks seems to be a big mystery, but several recent articles in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal explore the case of the missing masks.

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November Global PMI Reporting Reflects Some Stabilization

Supply Chain Matters

Austria was indicated as the worst performer, followed by Germany and France. Growth was reportedly fueled from demands in medicine, high tech, auto, railway, shipping and aerospace equipment markets. The reported November value posted a six-month high value of 44.2, reflecting a 1.1 percentage point gain over the value of 43.1