Q&A with ECIA Chief Analyst Dale Ford
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...
View ArticleHoneywell’s GoDirect™ Trade Leverages Blockchain to Overhaul Aircraft Parts...
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...
View ArticleNew Capabilities-Focused Reference Model Aims to Accelerate Digital Supply...
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...
View ArticleAdvanced Manufacturing Tech Emerges as Silver Lining to Supply Chain’s...
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,...
View ArticleAn Inside Look at Flex’s Risk Management Framework in Action
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...
View ArticleFlock of New Resilience Tools Could Clip the Wings of Future Black Swans
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...
View ArticleOne-on-One with Don Hnatyshin, Senior Vice President, Supply Chain, Molex
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...
View ArticleFrom the Desk of David Paulson
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?...
View ArticleAre Supply Chain Organizations Ready to Answer Growing Call to Action Around...
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...
View ArticleSupply Chains: Leading and Thriving in the Post-Pandemic World
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...
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