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What 4 Factors Matter Most For Finished-Product First-Pass Quality?
After a year of severe disruption, manufacturing is on the rise again. For example, the Institute for Supply Management’s February 2021 Manufacturing ISM® Report on Business® noted that 16 of 18 manufacturing sectors saw growth in February, encompassing everything from electrical equipment and…
COVID-19 Has Supply Chain Rethinking Work from Home Policies
Supply chain professionals and their organizations have undergone a significant—perhaps even tectonic—shift when it comes to working from home. It’s quite common now, while on a web call with someone in a supply chain role that can work from home (not in production or warehousing) to see a cat, dog…
Supply Chain Survival During COVID-19
COVID-19 has exploded across the world since we first wrote about the impact of the virus on supply chains in early February. What began as a supply-side disruption localized to China has morphed into a set of multiple disruptions with myriad impacts along the entire…
Don't Play Chicken With Your Suppliers: Four Important Supply Chain Lessons From the Popeyes' Chicken Sandwich Craze of 2019
It all started—as so many things do these days—with a tweet. In August of 2019, Popeyes’ Louisiana Kitchen was generating a lot of social media buzz in response to its new fried chicken sandwich. The chicken chain’s biggest competitor, Chick-fil-A, was itching for a fight. Chick-fil-A’s online…
Three Strategies to Help Your Supply Chain Survive Coronavirus
COVID-19 has sickened hundreds of thousands of people and has led to thousands of deaths since China first announced an outbreak of the virus in Wuhan on December 30, 2019. In addition to the rapidly increasing human toll, the virus has significantly disrupted the…