We started introducing the concept of Response Lead time (RLT) in the early days of COVID when it was becoming clear that disruptions in supply chains were significant and were going to be long lasting. Of course, the continuation of COVID and its massive lockdowns,…
We have been discussing Third Party Risk Management (TPRM) for about as long as our firm has been around – actually, perhaps even longer. And what we said was important decades ago is perhaps existential risk these days. All you have to do is to…
No, I’m not talking about the impact of climate change on supply chains (it’s humongous) or the impact of Ukraine’s plight on supply chains (equally humongous but perhaps slightly less long lasting). Here is a recent headline – “The biggest risk to the global economy…
I was on the phone with a client CPO last week and he started telling me about a recent challenge with a very critical commodity that actually was impacting customers and therefore revenue. I won’t tell you what industry or commodity, but this was clearly…
It is of course a tragedy that is hard to watch and one that everyone thought was unfathomable – but here we are. Never underestimate man’s capacity to be cruel to fellow human beings. But watching what is happening in Ukraine does have implications for…