BSMA Posts
How Has the Evolution of Supply Chains Advanced Nations and Economies?
The Forrester Moment: How System Dynamics Created Modern Supply Chain Management
Five Transformative Innovations That Changed the Trajectory of Supply Chain Management
The Next Five Years: Artificial Intelligence and the Re-engineering of Supply Chains (2026–2031)
Supply Chains: The Operating System of Nations
RISK MITIGATION – PREREQUISITE FOR SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST IN THE POST-COVID-19 PANDEMIC WORLD
The COVID-19 pandemic has inflicted a significantly greater damage on human lives and the global economy than the recent natural disasters of the eruption of a volcano in Iceland, the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, Thailand floods, and Hurricanes Maria and Harvey....
DATA MODELING OF THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC: A WEAPON OF WAR!
During the Coronavirus pandemic data scientists have come to the rescue of healthcare in an amazing manner with their data modeling, predictions, and analytical understanding of the causal factors of the infectious disease. It resembles the beginnings of the effort of...
PRIORITY # 3 FOR RECOVERY FROM COVID-19 CRISIS: ENSURING VISIBILITY IN THE SUPPLY CHAIN
The near real time visibility of events, assets, products and their attributes is reasonably adequate in an enterprise but it proved to be an abysmal failure during the COVID-19 pandemic when the links of the supply chain of Life Sciences were found to be standalone...
FUTURE OF LOGISTICS
There is absolutely no doubt that the COVID-19 Pandemic has changed the landscape of our economy; especially logistics. When the pandemic started, our logistics network in the United States was strong and growing at a fast rate. Trucking, especially LTL has been...
PRIORITY # 2 FOR STRATEGIC RECOVERY FROM COVID-19 PANDEMIC: INVENTORY MANAGEMENT
The war being waged to destroy the CORONA-19 Pandemic appears onerous and it has necessitated the establishment of priorities for attack. What is the 2nd most important priority after Supply Assurance being the first? The ability to respond to a surge in demand is...
PRIORITY # 1 FOR STRATEGIC RECOVERY FROM COVID-19 PANDEMIC
If the COVID-19 pandemic has been overwhelmingly difficult, restoration of the disrupted supply chain and building a resilient and agile one will be even more formidable because of the vulnerabilities exposed. To address the challenge of allocation of scarce...