As John Lennon said: IMAGINE!!
Imagine political unrest erupts in some region, threatening more than half of the world’s production of medical instruments.
Imagine a typhoon hits Southeast Asia and hospitals are unable to receive latex gloves required for surgery. Continue reading
Consumers think little of the security and technology needed to bring goods to market. Almost daily, cargo thieves are aiming at freight which is worth upwards to millions of dollars. The targets run the full gamut from food, drinks, electronics, home products, building materials, clothing, auto parts, and pharmaceuticals. Continue reading
It is no secret that globalization has increased supply chain risk. Along with that risk comes the opportunity to manage it. The opportunities are: site facilities in safer locations or environments, educated overseas personnel, set up of production centers closer to the sources of vital raw materials and expansion of suppliers and vendors in the supply chain. Continue reading
In today’s food and beverage industry, everyone has a supply chain that they rely on. And with that comes risk. You may be staking your brand reputation on the quality and safety of products or ingredients you are sourcing from somewhere that is not under your direct control. In short, you are relying on someone else to do things right, and inheriting risk if they don’t. Congress recognized that sometimes you rely on suppliers to control risk, which puts supplier management into the bucket of a “preventive control” and thus part of the Food Safety Modernization Act. Continue reading
In the past I have written about the global Supply Chain and the risks involved in streamlining and controlling various types of risks. I thought I would take a breather from that format and write about something else which has been on my mind for a long time.
Can and or will United States manufacturing recover and bring along with it the US economy? Continue reading