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This Week in Logistics News (February 19 – 25)

Logistics Viewpoints

I thought I understood all the major supply chain implications of the pandemic until I began reading Yossi Sheffi’s new book The New (Ab)Normal: Reshaping Business and Supply Chain Strategy beyond Covid-19. The potential supply chain impacts of this conflict dwarf any other supply chain news that might be reported.

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Optimizing Inventory Is About Improving Service While Lowering Inventory. Wait, What?

ToolsGroup

One of the hardest parts of my job is helping customers get to grips with complex, counterintuitive supply chain concepts. Before I answer that, let me rewind to my last post, “ Service Level Should Be Your Number One Supply Chain KPI…But What Does It Really Mean? ” Oxford Languages). is typical of the reaction I get.

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The World’s Most Vulnerable Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology won the Financial Time’s business book of the year award. It also provides a good explanation for why the semiconductor supply chain is the world’s most vulnerable supply chain. technology. It produces the world’s most sophisticated chips.

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Look to Israel for a Measure of How the US Vaccine Supply Chain Has Failed

MIT Supply Chain

To put the scale of the debacle into context, let’s compare the US performance to that of tiny Israel. By comparison, Israel was vaccinating 150,000 people a day or about 1.7% At these vaccination rates, Israel may need a little over 80 days to achieve herd immunity (when 70% of the population are vaccinated twice).