PPE Supply Chain amid Life-Threatening Shortages.

PPE shortages are not necessarily due to the PPE supply chain, but the unexpected huge demand.  The lack of PPE has been blamed for deaths of health care workers across the country.  We need to learn the issue with the shortages and make sure it doesn’t happen again.  Dr. Jon LaPook examines the PPE supply chain and speaks to a former health official about what the country should do.

Coronavirus and Bullwhip Effect

• 3D Printer Making Face Shields Protecting Hospital Workers From Coronavirus.
• Amazon Strike Amid Safety concerns Over Coronavirus.
• Bullwhip Effect: Sudden Demand Increases.
• Coronavirus Accelerates Automation Across Industry.
• Coronavirus Supply Chain Disruption.
• Discuss Coronavirus Impact on Supply Chain.
• Flattening the Coronavirus Curve.
• Food Supply Chain Is Strong.
• How Coronavirus Could Slow Down Amazon Deliveries.
• Quotes about the Coronavirus.
• Supply Chain Management: The Beer Game.
• Supply Chain Workers Putting in Overtime for COVID-19
• The coronavirus impact on Apple.

Supply Chain Quotes

• “I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they’ve been.” ~Sam Walton
• “Supply Chain is like nature, it is all around us.” ~Dave Waters
• “Smart companies fail because they do everything right. They cater to high-profit-margin customers and ignore the low end of the market, where disruptive innovations emerge from.” ~Clayton Christensen
• “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
• “The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t being said.” ~Peter Drucker
• “The coronavirus has the potential to greatly accelerate the usage of robots and artificial intelligence throughout the supply chain.” ~Dave Waters