Resiliency has emerged as a cornerstone to emerging successfully from the pandemic and essential to post-COVID success.
As executives re-evaluate supply chain collaborations and partnerships, they will be thinking about supply chain strategy and partnerships. We have assembled expert manufacturing and supply chain thought leaders from around the globe to discuss and debate these topics.
With our 140 years of consulting experience supplementing over 190 years of management experience in Manufacturing, Logistics, Supply Chain, Technology, Sustainability, and more, our global thought leaders will explore whether the processes of reshoring and nearshoring could add value to your business and enhance your customer experience, create further disruption, and cost, or result in other challenges and opportunities and which supply chain relationships will be key in this ongoing reconfiguration.
My Business Got COVIDVolume 1 | Number 2 | February 2021 I’m not telling you that any of our team members or I got COVID. My argument here is that the business got COVID. More and more, I’m discussing the current situation with my client s leadership and witnessing the long-term effects of having their
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December has been a quiet month. Most of my clients are working hard to get many objectives completed before year-end. They all are keeping be busy COVID related supply chain opportunities and inventory velocity improvements. The reoccurring issues related to COVID is
Demand variability related to shutdowns and customer consumption changes.
Locating quality suppliers to reposition manufacturing closer to customers successfully.
Once the supplier is located, qualifying the new product.
Employee Zoom fatigue.
Working to adapt Gemda, visiting where work is done in the age of Zoom.