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Vaccine Supply Chain Distribution: Disruption Amid COVID-19 Series

Let’s hope when we look back at the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine it is a supply chain success story, and not one where we are picking apart what went wrong.  This webinar focuses on the vaccine supply chain while dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic.  MSU is one of the top supply chain programs in the world.

COVID-19 and Supply Chain Resources

Innovation and Supply Chain Quotes

  • “Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the right place at the right time. In other words, you must win through superior logistics.”  ~Tom Peters.
  • The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence – it is to act with yesterday’s logic.  ~Peter Drucker
  • It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.  ~W. Edwards Deming
  • “The coronavirus will impact supply chain in all industries.  Risk mitigation will be key for future supply chain strategies.” ~Dave Waters
  • “You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics.” ~Dwight D. Eisenhower.
  • “What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tailwind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.” ~Jeff Bezos.
  • “The distribution of COVID-19 vaccine is one of the most important supply chain projects of our time.” ~Dave Waters  
  • “What works most effectively for quelling disease outbreaks like Ebola is not quarantining huge populations. What works is focusing on and isolating the sick and those in direct contact with them as they are at highest risk of infection. This strategy worked with SARS, and it worked during the H1N1 flu pandemic.” ~Tom Frieden
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