Supply Chain Coronavirus Updates
What’s the Hold-up With COVID Vaccinations? Don’t Hold Your Breath…a 2021 Prediction
Welcome to 2021! At the beginning of each year, I typically put together some predictions about what to expect in the supply chain world in the next year. Umm…. I didn’t do so well in 2020…. About the only predictions […]
More Testing is Still Critical as COVID Vaccines Roll Out
Our research team in the Poole College has continued to work on the problem of how best to distribute COVID tests during a nationwide and global shortage of tests, as pandemic cases continue to grow. Based on our interviews with […]
Emergent Supply Chain Challenges for Deployment of the COVID19 Vaccine: Saving the Commons
As we enter into the early stages of the second wave of COVID cases, hospitals and public health administrators are worried about the new influx of cases that will arrive before the development and deployment of COVID vaccines in 2021. […]
Working from Home Versus the Office: Implications for Property Management
I was part of the World Commerce and Contracting (the new version of IACCM) Vibe Summit this past week, and had a great set of conversations with a number of executives about what the current work environment holds. A number […]
Finding The Best Way to Get COVID-19 Test Kits Where They’re Needed
NC State research effort aims to improve COVID-19 test kit distribution and supply chains.
Global Trade Professional Alliance Launches APEC Survey With SCRC Research Team
APEC Global Supply Chains Resiliency Survey Launched With the world economy facing multiple disruptions, including slow economic growth, natural disasters, and more recently the COVID-19 pandemic, global value chains (GVCs), and supply chains more broadly, are transforming rapidly. While past […]
Foraging for Healthcare Supplies in a Western Economy
Yesterday I spoke with a procurement executive at a major hospital in the Northeast. This is someone that I know and respect, and who is considered a highly proactive and informed individual. He is deploying advanced procurement technology in his […]
Advising Students in the “New Normal” World of Working Remotely: Guest Blog from Ayo Agunbiade
Today’s guest blog is from one of our Academic Advisors, Ayo Agunbiade, a Senior Academic Advisor in the Poole College of Management Undergraduate Programs advising office. After reading one of my recent blogs on social distancing and working from home, […]
Will People Ever Go Back to Work in an Office?
As we continue to plow through the difficult times, with COVID cases spiking in multiple states across the country, the hopes for a normal return to the workplace is diminishing every day. It is unlikely that we will ever return […]
PPE Shortages Disrupting Hospitals Nationwide: Portrait of a Broken Healthcare Supply Chain
A recent article in the Washington Post highlighted the massive shortages of PPE that are now decimating hospitals nationwide, as the number of new cases of Coronavirus goes through the roof. The Post notes that: “Health-care workers on the front […]