At the recent Procurement Executive Round Table (PERT) workshop, we tackled the topic of defining Response Lead Time (RLT) and you may remember that we started the work of defining that as a metric. A quick reminder – just like you are ensuring that your supply chain/suppliers are…
As you can well imagine, the interest and focus on Supplier Diversity has increased significantly given the current socio-political climate. We have been responding to many queries and as a result have recently updated and revamped our Supplier Diversity Readiness Risk Assessment and I thought I would get…
Let me lay out a hypothetical scenario away from COVID to let us all think at a meta level about this Response Lead Time (RLT) thing. Let’s say you are the head of FEMA and have suddenly been made aware of the following: The National Electric Grid is…
By now, we have weathered the initial shock and awe from this horrible event and have settled into the routine of working from home, securing enough PPE and trying to plan for the reopening depending on when that may be happening. At the risk of beating that…
Hope you and your family continue to be safe. You have heard us talk about the fact that COVID is a Predictable and Inevitable event which means that we must deal with it before it happens next time. It also means that you must therefore put in place…
