Building Supply Chain Resilience with 3Cs: The Covid-19 crisis has exposed organizational and societal lack of resilience. Earlier, I had discussed a framework for creating organizational resilience. Resilience is defined as the ability to withstand and recover quickly from adverse or very adverse conditions. I have classified resilience as internal and external resilience. One aspect …
What is the issue? The Covid19 global pandemic has cruelly exposed the utter dependence of the US and the world on China’s mass manufacturing capability and supply of critical medical equipment and materials. Not only are personal protective equipment and medical ventilators in a massive short supply, Chinese supplied medical tests have also been found …
Value Chain Based National Strategic Rare Earth Insourcing – Part 1 Read More »
It’s amazing how quickly $4 trillion dollars can change a conversation. I am talking about a rethink of the math on Rare Earth Elements. With the onset of the COVID19 pandemic, and the resulting supply chain fallout, many have speculated on how the U.S. found itself so reliant on a foreign country, mainly China, but …
The destructive impact of Covid19 on lives and livelihoods is likely to accelerate in the near-term before stabilizing and reducing in the long-term. The return to normalcy is unpredictable, both for timing and spheres of life. It has also cruelly exposed the inability of our critical systems, such as, Healthcare, Supply Chain and supply dependency, …
Digital Transformation must accelerate Organizational Resilience Read More »
Covid19 has laid bare the global dependence and failures of organizations and supply chains for sustained delivery of products and services and during a global crisis. It is clear that almost all organizations are in survival mode with a complete shutdown of the global economy and dependence on China for critical medical supplies, medicine and …
My attempt to create a cause-effect for Covid19. I have included attributes for Material, Measurement, Machine, Methods, Environment, Employees, and Information categories. I am sure I have missed many; this is from the current information I have been able to glean. And most of these causes will need further drill downs for other (root) causes. …
Covid-19 Fall out and Hope: With the pandemic now effecting everyday life everywhere on this globe, almost all public activities have been severely curtailed. These include public event cancellations, school and university closures, remote work, supply chain disruptions, travel bans, and almost any other public assemblies conceivable. Social distancing measures are being enforced in affected …
Better Retailing -get to the basics: The doom-and-gloom in Retail, bankruptcies and store closures, is largely limited to the apparel, chains, and department stores. Physical retail is quite robust, with the mid-tier retail market being the most impacted due to unimaginative and undifferentiated product offers, destructive discounting, poor store layouts, and service. The headlines often …
With another passing day and another earnings call, we hear and read about retail sales slowing, stores closing, and companies filing for bankruptcy. While it is clear that retail is in an upheaval, unable yet to master the on-line off-line model to sales, supply chain, and consumerism “anywhere everywhere now” flexibility, upstream product rationalization or …
While the supply chain industry is mature, it has also become tremendously complex with globalization and multiple geographic options for sourcing components, sub-assembly and assembly, and final delivery. A car’s transmission is manufactured in one country, the chassis in another, and the final assembly line somewhere else. Service development and provisioning is similar: a clinical …