We human beings are a peculiar species. Through words, sounds, and images, we can transcend many lifetimes to transpose our emotions onto the consciousness of others who come after us. On November 13, 2015, as I stood before the Door of No Return, a historic site on Gorée Island, situated about two miles off the coast of …
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“There is a serious conversation in the board room: how do we diversify our supply chain; how do we make it shorter so that it is much more effective in terms of cost, resiliency, and sustainability? The Americas have a great opportunity to take advantage of this momentum. Because if we don’t do it now, …
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 …
One California city is grappling with COVID-19 outbreaks at nine of its industrial facilities, including one food processing plant that reported having at least 153 positive cases, according to health officials. “We have seen disruption across the entire food supply chain, and of course, the meat supply chain is a subset of that,” said Nick Vyas, the executive …
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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 …
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 …
COVID-19 revealed the fragility of our complex supply chain logistics. Expert Nick Vyas believes we can make it strong, green, and pandemic proof. by Daniel P. Smith Nick Vyas settles into his office chair in front of his computer for a Zoom meeting. One by one, dozens of Los Angeles-area sixth-graders populate the screen. Vyas can’t remember …
The world will never be the same again. Black swan events such as the Covid-19 crisis leave the world scathed and wrung inside out, compelling people to identify and fix the frailties of social, political, and economic systems. The fixing can be either benign or drastic, depending on the shared values of a society. The …
