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What’s Wrong with our Supply Chains?

For many, scenes of frenzied buying of toilet paper, hand sanitizer, masks, bottled water and lifesaving drugs during the early days of the pandemic will stay in our collective memory for a long time—perhaps forever. Most of us witnessed the horrors of seeing regular folks turn on one another and abandon the sense of altruism …

Watch: The Future of Supply Chain Education

Nick Vyas, academic director of the Master of Science in Global Supply Chain Management program at the USC Marshall School of Business, tells how higher education in supply chain has been affected by the pandemic, both in terms of subject matter and how it’s taught. Change was afoot in supply chain higher education even before the …

Supply Chain Planning for a troubled world

Supply Chain Planning for a Troubled World

A crisis-ready supply chain will have to be guided by dynamic systems attuned to both economic and geopolitical trends. – By Dr. Nick Vyas | May 6, 2022 British Novelist Laura Spinney wrote in Pale Rider, an excellent historiography of the Spanish Flu of 1918, “At the root of every pandemic is an encounter between …

The Rebound: The State of Global Supply Chains

On this episode of The Rebound, Nick Vyas, executive director of USC’s Center for Global Supply Chain Management, Joins Abe Eshkenazi and Bob Trebilcock for a discussion on the state of global supply chain management, the administration’s supply chain executive order and why trade and infrastructure are keys to where we go next.  We are …