While Nike is dramatically lessening its store locations, it is prevailing through the practice of digitalization and online strategies. This shift to electronic sales is inexorable and now integrated into the company’s very infrastructure. Today, Nike Digital makes up a quarter of their North American profits. Further, consumers have significantly acclimated to online shopping, which
Welcome to 2021! At the beginning of each year, I typically put together some predictions about what to expect in the supply chain world in the next year. Umm…. I didn’t do so well in 2020…. About the only predictions I think I did okay on were the continued movement towards localized supply chains, and
Our research team in the Poole College has continued to work on the problem of how best to distribute COVID tests during a nationwide and global shortage of tests, as pandemic cases continue to grow. Based on our interviews with subject matter experts and review of the current literature on the status of Covid-19 testing,
SCRC Executive Director Rob Handfield and Eugene Schneller, professor of supply chain management at Arizona State University, were recently featured on WNIN radio to discuss the basics of the medical supply chain and the effects the events of 2020 have had on it. Host Sarah Lemancyzk described the pair as “a CSI team – for
Dr. Christopher Yukins By Dr. Christopher R. YukinsLynn David Research Professor in Government Procurement LawCo-Director, Government Procurement Law ProgramThe George Washington University Law School On the day that the Food and Drug Administration met to discuss approval of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, Professor Robert Handfield, the Bank of America University Distinguished Professor of Supply