What's Wrong With Our Supply Chains?
What's Wrong With Our Supply Chains?
The proper use of lean can help organizations strike the right balance in building effective supplier networks
- Publication:
- Quality Progress
- Date:
- May 2022
- Issue:
- Volume 55 Issue 5
- Pages:
- pp. 16-23
- Author(s):
- Vyas, Nick
- Organization(s):
- University of Southern California Marshall’s Kendrick Global Supply Chain Institute
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Abstract
COVID-19 impacted U.S. supply chains greatly, but many agree that to a greater extent, it merely exposed endemic problems in the supply chain that have existed for decades. Pundits, media and insiders across industries from toilet paper to semiconductors tend to blame lean manufacturing in every level of the supply chain for the problems. This may be an accurate place to lay blame under the circumstances because the U.S. supply chain seems currently to be built for cost and speed rather than resilience.