Enduring supply chain lessons from the COVID 19 pandemic
03/31/2021
- by Lynn Torrel
Supply Chain Management Review is one of the world’s leading supply chain publications. In a recent edition, Professor Yossi Sheffi, director of the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics, sat down for a conversation with our CPO, Lynn Torrel.
“One of the biggest “aha” lessons from the pandemic is the increased prominence of supply chain. Before the crisis “nobody was really talking about supply chains, people just expected them to work and deliver products.”

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Written by
Lynn Torrel
Chief Procurement and Supply Chain Officer
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