How to fix broken supply chains

It won´t be new news if I say that Supply Chain challenges are not new, but it´s fair to say, in recent times they have become more real than ever and seem to have shaken up the way we have been looking at them in the past.

It´s rare the day we don´t see in the media news about new or existing disruption driven by the current Supply Chain challenges, and if whether you work directly in the field of Supply Chain or not, you surely would have been impacted one way or another, whether it was by out of stocks, delays on getting your parcels or prices skyrocketing to levels we have never seen before.

The good news is, that for these challenges, there are potential solutions. The caveat is, that they require a level of trust, transparency and openness that most companies and governments are probably not ready to achieve.

Having said that, in the video you can find in the link below, trade expert Dustin Burke explains how companies can keep up with the existing challenges and what will might take to address and improve some of them to create a more resilient and efficient Supply Chain tomorrow.

Enjoy!

TED Talk: How to fix broken Supply Chains

Cold Chain

I´ve been recently interested in understanding how some products can get from a point A to point a B, which is basically what logistics is all about. But this time, the products I was thinking about were the kind of products that need specific conditions to preserve their properties, I´m talking about food, vaccines, or even organs from donors that passed away far from a hospital.

There is a specific name for this kind of temperature controlled supply chain, the cold chain; an uninterrupted series of storage and distribution activities which maintain a given temperature range to avoid getting the products mentioned above spoiled.

If the task of moving a product which doesn´t need any specific storage or transport conditions from a given point to another is sometimes a headache, think about moving the kind of delicate products that need some of the strictest temperature conditions to a remote place. Well, it seems challenging and it certainly can be an ordeal even if you have the right resources. Imagine now delivering the much needed vaccines to some of the most remote places in the world, impossible you think? Watch the next set of videos staring world famous actor Ewan McGregor on a run against the clock to maintain the cold chain when trying to reach some of the most isolated places in the world to deliver pharmaceutical drugs.

It´s worth watching these videos to understand the setbacks that can come up when carrying on actions that in any other cases would be done routinely but when working with these products can be somewhat challenging to the most!


Cold chain mission part 1 

Cold chain mission part 2 

Cold chain mission part 3 

Cold chain mission part 4 


Don´t miss out the next episode, where Ewan and his team will be attempting to travel to central Africa to continue with their cold chain mission!

Supply Chain Journal

Today, I would like to share with you a couple of videos that explains the basics of  supply chain management. There is a series of modules that will give you, once you have seen them all a great overview of how things work regarding logistics, manufacture, transport and so forth.

I hope you will enjoy them as much as I did.


- What´s Supply Chain Management?

- Buy it: Managing Supply

-Manufacturing and Operations

- Move it: Transportation and Logistics

 - Sell it & Service it

- Supply Chain Integration

- Global Supply Chain Management

- Social Responsible Supply Chain Management

- Business Processes

- Measuring Performance

- Quality Management

- Supply Chain and Information Technology

I´d like to take the opportunity to thank the user who uploaded these information and encourage you to have a look at his chanel as it´s full of interesting videos, unfortunately most of them are in spanish but some are in english.