to teaming up together and highly vulnerable patients are risk in the u. k. as doctors, confusion grows over the difference between the 3rd dose of the co vaccine and a booster along with what is the correct order to administer the people that keeping this injection eat up to 6 weeks? no, nothing about that. again, just giving you about the pay stub and painting and receiving the roof. information has not been given out correctly. that s your headlines for this hour. i ll be back in about an hour s time with another look. stay with us or to international with ah, and this week show that new normal is here and the robots are taking over for better and for worse. how automation will impact you and your children. but 1st, you re hearing lots about the supply chain and you re feeling it everywhere. get used to with. i m holland cook in washington. this is the big picture on our t america. oh, i dealers want to buy your car, paper towels and toilet paper are getting scarce again.
on our new mobile video app, access top highlights, listen to c-span radio and discover new pad casts all for free. download c-span now today. joining us now patrick penfield, of syracuse university. a supply chain practice professor here to talk about the delays in the supply chain. professor, thanks for giving us your time this morning. good morning. glad to be on the show. what s the best way to think about the supply chain particularly with the issues that are currently at play? yes, so supply chains are pretty simplistic. input transformation output. unfortunately, it s gotten very complicated over the years. and a lot due to cost reductions and trying to get the lowest cost, the best quality. now we have a global supply chain crisis. problems and issues throughout the various parts of the supply chain. what s the biggest problems that are adding up to the crisis? yeah, the big one is shortage of materials, base ingredients, chemicals, semiconductor chips esp
host: joining us now is patrick penfield of syracuse university here to talk about what you have heard about the last few weeks, delays in the supply chain. good morning. guest: glad to be on the show. host: what is the best way to think about a supply chain, particularly with the issues currently at play? guest: supply chains are simplistic. it is basically input, transformation, output. they have gotten complicated over the years, and a lot of bit has been due to cost reduction, trying to get the lowest cost and the best quality, so now we have a global supply chain crisis, problems and issues throughout various parts of the supply chain. host: what are the biggest problems adding up to the crisis? guest: yeah. the big one is a shortage of materials. we have a shortage of the basic ingredients, chemicals, for semi conductor chips especially. we have long lead times that keep getting longer. an example would be come if you were to ship something from china last year, it woul