By Stan Aronow In late October, I had the privilege of moderating a virtual Leaders in Action (LIA) event with a group of twenty COOs and CSCOs representing a range of large global companies. This interactive event, themed “Thriving in the Post-Pandemic World,” was designed to give supply chain leaders the opportunity to share their…
In its report Ethically-Aligned Design for Business: A Call to Action for Businesses Using AI, the IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems (A/IS) contends that the duty to implement AI ethically belongs to everybody who works with it. The report states: “It is easy for anyone to say, ‘I am not…
Welcome to the Winter 2020 edition of Supply Chain Navigator. Remember the good old days…in 2019…when seeing grocery shelves filled with toilet tissue and disinfectant spray didn’t feel like a luxury? It’s been a year, for sure. Given all the upheaval, it is easy to get bogged down in thinking about everything that has gone…
SCN: It’s been quite a year. What’s your impression of how the tech supply chain has handled the unprecedented disruption of the global pandemic? DH: I would have to say that the overall response has been positive. The industry has been through enough of these events and cycles that supply chain organizations have built up…
Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, hundreds of thousands of businesses have gone under, tens of millions of people have lost their jobs and over a million individuals have perished. Covid-19 is not just another black swan event, but the heavy-weight champion of all Black Swans. While black swan events are, by definition, unpredictable,…
How applying various supply chain resilience levers helped us persevere amid Covid-19 disruptions By Lynn Torrel As an organization managing some 1,000 supply chains on our customers’ behalf, Flex is constantly evaluating our risk mitigation models. We identify, evaluate and mitigate risks through three lenses: Serving our customers: Understanding our obligations to customers requires an…
By Mark Cotteleer and John Wilczynski By the time the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak to be an official “global pandemic” in early March 2020, demand for critical goods, including personal protective equipment (PPE), medical devices and diagnostic testing equipment, was already skyrocketing. Consumers ranging from governments to hospital systems and even individual…
By Morgan Swink and Jeroen Kusters When the Supply Chain Operational Reference (SCOR) model was introduced in 1996, it truly revolutionized the practice of supply chain management. The SCOR plan-source-make-deliver framework provided a method for businesses, big and small, to align functions, create a supply chain roadmap and measure and manage processes from “the supplier’s…
Lisa Butters’ kids that two years ago she could barely spell blockchain; today she is general manager of the aerospace sector’s first blockchain-based e-commerce marketplace for used serviceable and new surplus parts inventory – GoDirect™ Trade. Butters’ journey from blockchain novice to resident expert began when she was tapped by Honeywell Aerospace leadership to “crack…
SCN: Can you give us an update on what ECIA is seeing in terms of the impacts of the global pandemic on the electronic components sector. DF: Of course. As it became clear in January that the Covid-19 virus was not merely a local outbreak in the Wuhan province, ECIA began conducting bi-weekly surveys of…