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Each month, ALOM supply chain subject matter experts take a look at events, trends and technology shaping the industry and offer thought-provoking opinion and well-considered insight to help bring clarity and greater awareness of key issues.

The Unforeseen (and mostly overlooked) Supply Chain Human Tragedy: It’s time to do something.

Hannah Kain - September 15, 2020

“Sometimes it is feeling like prison.” This is what one crew member, Ajith Nandasena, said after being stuck at sea for 13 months.  Ajith was …

Supply Chain Tragedy

Preparing Supply Chains for the Unknown – from Survival to Thriving

Hannah Kain - August 12, 2020

How do you prepare for the unknown? That’s a question many people have asked over the last six months as we realized that the world, …

Preparing Supply Chains

PPE Quality Equals Safety and You Need Both

Hannah Kain - July 15, 2020

More than a century ago, the “Spanish flu” spread around the world. Until Covid-19 hit this year, that was the world’s last pandemic. Nothing of …

PPE

Shifting Supply Chain Channel Strategy – where are you placing your bets?

Hannah Kain - June 4, 2020

I’ve been hitting the “Buy” button much more frequently these last months than ever before. I am not alone. Ecommerce has seen huge upswing, while …

Shifting Supply Chain Channel Strategy

The New “Normal” Two Year Plan: The Pulsing Supply Chain

Hannah Kain - April 13, 2020

Food, toilet tissue, PPE’s, and ventilators. I imagine most supply chain professionals have answered more questions about the supply chain over the last weeks than …

Pulsing Supply Chain

Pandemic Meets Supply Chain: Tools, Threats and Thoughts

Hannah Kain - March 12, 2020

Download PDF version WHO just declared the coronavirus a Pandemic. Now we need to pull out every tool in the box to fight back. Supply …

Pandemic Meets Supply Chain