COVID-19 Supply Chain View from the Field

Apr 16, 2020

Outcomes from our Post-Covid Seminar: Supply Chains Shifts, Leadership Communication, and a Rough Economic Forecast

The SCRC held our first webinar panel today (video embedded below), which was attended by over 90 people, with another 200 who signed up for the recording.  The webinar featured… 

Apr 16, 2020

Mapping the CPO Response to COVID-19 as Global Recession Looms

By: Professor Robert B. Handfield and Dr. Ian George via beroeinc.com Supply chains have faced significant disruption since the COVID-19 outbreak, and organizations are trying to understand what this means for… 

Apr 14, 2020

COVID19: An Update on Chicken, Meat, and Paper Products

Since I last wrote about the subject of shortages of grocery items on WRAL and on our video blogs, there has been considerably more concern about what is happening to… 

Apr 5, 2020

COVID-19: Pharma Supply Chain Security & Robustness During Global Pandemic [ISPE Webinar]

via ispe.com In this webinar hosted by ISPE on April 3rd, 2020, a panel of subject matter experts discussed the challenges in keeping the supply chain operational during an ongoing global… 

Apr 5, 2020

NC State and North Carolina industries step in to provide massive production of new N95 mask and materials

The Nonwovens Institute at North Carolina State University (funded by NWI) has stepped in to convert much of its equipment over to production of a new material that involves just… 

Mar 31, 2020

The Perilous State of Healthcare Supply Chains Today: How Did We End Up Here?

In my last couple of blogs, I spoke briefly about the current surge in demand for N95 masks, as well as the number of grocery stores that were experiencing severe… 

Mar 25, 2020

Proactive supplier communication is critical in this pandemic

As the coronavirus epidemic shuts down the global economy, supply chain executives should be taking steps now to ensure that their supply base remains intact in the face of massive… 

Mar 22, 2020

Where are all the N95 Masks? A Supply Chain Dilemma

An interviewer asked a FEMA representative on CNN this evening a simple question:  How many N95 masks will be delivered to hospitals, and when will they arrive?  The representative managed… 

Mar 17, 2020

Supply Chain Issues Impacting the Country’s Recovery from the Coronavirus

The current pandemic is beginning to create panic in the general population, and in some cases, it is misplaced.  For example, grocery stores have seen massive stock-outs of common items… 

Mar 2, 2020

Steps for industry and government to prepare for the Coronavirus

As I noted in an earlier blog, the issue of global epidemics is something that we have seen in the past with the SARS epidemic.  People sometimes think these come…