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Jul 23, 2020

Rob Handfield on the New Players of Protective Gear

When the COVID-19 pandemic began in March, many never anticipated the vast shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) for health care workers. The disruption in the PPE supply chains in…

Jul 17, 2020

Coronavirus, Tariffs, Trade Wars and Supply Chain Evolutionary Design

It is clear that the COVID-19 response introduced a bullwhip effect in the manufacturing sector on a scale never-before seen. Scholars, including the authors of this study from the International…

Jul 10, 2020

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…

Jul 9, 2020

Automation in the Meat Packing Industry is on the Horizon

An article in the Wall Street Journal discussed the emerging technology of automation in the meat packing industry.  This is no doubt a harbinger of more automation to come not…

Jul 9, 2020

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…

Jul 7, 2020

COVID and Touchless Logistics for Home Delivery: Guest Post by Michael Kay PhD

Today’s blog was provided by Professor Michael Kay of the Edwards Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at NC State University.  This is a reprint of an article he…

Jul 6, 2020

Gartner Ranks NC State Jenkins MBA No. 10 in Supply Chain

The NC State Poole College of Management’s Jenkins MBA supply chain management program rose five places to No. 10 in Gartner Research’s 2020 ranking of graduate supply chain programs in North America. Several key trends among top-ranked programs in the […]

Jun 26, 2020

Creating a Vision of the Future – An Evolution or Revolution of the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain [ISPE Webinar]

via ispe.com In this “fireside chat” webinar hosted by ISPE, speakers discussed their vision of the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain in the next 3 to 5 years as the Pandemic and other…

Jun 25, 2020

U.S. Government Poised To Award ‘Commercial Platforms’ Contracts That Will Open Online Marketplaces To Federal Purchasers

I was recently involved in a research discussion with Chris Yukins of George Washington University’s Law School’s Government Procurement Program, and Thomas Kull from Arizona State University, exploring the impact…

Jun 25, 2020

The PPE Shortage Nightmare is Far From Over — It’s About to Get Worse

Given the lack of discussion in the media on supply chain shortages in healthcare, one would think that this crisis has been averted, and that shortages of Personal Protective Equipment…