The 2003 infectious outbreak of SARS-CoV had a negative impact on blood supply. This study aimed to measure donor attendance and blood demand in order to help find efficient ways of managing blood supply and demand during the COVID-19 pandemic and similar public emergencies in the future. ...
Supply and demand shocks COVID-19 Structural vector autoregressions Sign restrictions 1. Introduction The COVID-19 outbreak and subsequent public health policy response have caused widespread disruption in most economies. On one hand, authorities around the world have enforced containment and mitigation ...
Supply and demand issues during the pandemic revealed how fragile supply chains can be. But the pandemic also highlighted potentially new opportunities that can be derived from the current network and can help meet the increased demands of tomorrow. Change doesn’t come easily, however. Improving ...
The cartel of oil producing nations is, at present, committed to only increasing production by 400,000 barrels per day as it unwinds theproduction cuts it put in place during the pandemicwhen demand for crude collapsed and the oil price sank. This is not just due to...
This paper explores the supply chain (SC) disruption impacts to the performance outcomes of a semiconductor company during the Covid-19 pandemic and propos
During the pandemic’s early stages, sportswear maker Nike accelerated a supply chain technology program that used radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to track products flowing through outsourced manufacturing operations. The company also used predictive-demand analytics to minimize the impact ...
PANDEMIC RESILIENCE HOW TO SECURE STABLE SUPPLY CHAINS FOR VACCINES AND MEDICAL GOODS DURING THE COVID-19 CRISIS AND FUTURE HEALTH EMERGENCIES SEPTEMBER, 2020 2 Delivering Pandemic Resilience DHL White Paper FOREWORD We find ourselves in a time unlike any we have seen in the last 50 ...
Richard Wilding explains supply chain challenges during COVID-19 One of the world’s leading logistics experts gives his assessment of how COVID-19 has impacted the interconnected world of demand and supply. Professor Richard Wilding has spent a long and illust...
As ground zero for the virus, it was initially expected that China would be the hardest hit by the pandemic in terms of both health and economic impact. Following a catastrophic first quarter with production volume paralyzed by factory shutdowns and demand shocks, China’s Covid-19...
When the Covid-19 pandemic subsides, the world is going to look markedly different. The supply shock that started in China in February and the demand shock that followed as the global economy shut d…