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It’s not as easy as you might think to divert food intended for schools and restaurants and send it to grocery stores or even food banks.
Incarcerated Americans have been tasked with washing hospital laundry, manufacturing protective equipment, disinfecting cleaning supplies and digging mass graves.
Responsible leadership from the private sector is needed more than ever.
Bulk buying disrupts the balance of the supply chain. Here’s how supply chains combat hoarding of products like toilet paper.
Modern supply chains have become increasingly efficient, but as a result are more susceptible to disruptions like the one caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Starting to feel a little more optimistic? Look away now.
The US is gradually shifting to lower-carbon energy sources, but the COVID-19 pandemic, an oil price crash and a likely recession are big speed bumps.
Much of the world is moving online in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Society’s newly increased dependence on the internet is bringing the need for good cyber policy into sharp relief.
By shopping responsibly and thinking of others, consumers will play a big part in ensuring everyone can buy what they need.
Drug shortages occur regularly in the US, even in the best of times. The pharmaceutical supply chain embodies ‘just in time’ shipping and has little built-in redundancy.
Canada and the United States have opted to keep its border open to commercial trucking during the coronavirus pandemic. The decision is important to the economies of both countries.
Artificial Intelligence, 3D printing and blockchain can make supply chains more resilient - but only if we (and they) collaborate.
An economist explains how a virus like COVID-19 could disrupt the US economy – and why it’s too soon to freak out just yet.
As the human costs of the Covid-19 virus epidemic continue to rise, the virus is also taking its toll on global economy, with disrupted supply chains across a wide variety of industries.
The US could only safely use a fraction of its nuclear stockpile without harming Americans through an environmental event called ‘nuclear autumn.’
Thousands of Chinese producers are at risk of going bust as a result of the outbreak.
As the Fed warns of the risks posed by the new coronavirus, a supply chain expert explains how the outbreak could harm companies and the economy.
Supply chains can amount to four times an organisation’s own operational carbon footprint.
Take a look at the first high-resolution map of the US food supply chain.
Top contributors
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Associate Dean - School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University
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Professor and Eugene M. Isenberg Chair in Integrative Studies, UMass Amherst
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Deputy Director of the HUMLOG (Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management Research) Institute, Hanken School of Economics
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Director of the Digital Health Enterprise Zone (DHEZ), University of Bradford, Professor of Health Service Operations, University of Bradford
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Associate Professor of Operations & Project Management, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor in Sustainable Production and Consumption, Anglia Ruskin University
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Senior Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management, Anglia Ruskin University
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Lecturer in Logistics, Technological University Dublin
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Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management, Northeastern University
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Professor of Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Heriot-Watt University
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Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management, City, University of London
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Associate Professor, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Supply Chain & Analytics, University of Missouri-St. Louis
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Bernard T. Ferrari Professor of Business, Johns Hopkins University
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Professor of Accounting, University of Portsmouth
