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May 202020

Recently, our managing partner, Eric Hiller, published an article at aPriori’s website called:

6 STEPS TO OVERCOMING THE SUPPLY CHAIN CRISIS

The response was so good, that aPriori is having Eric teach as part of a webinar on the subject.

Webinar Description: The COVID-19 pandemic has created workforce disruptions that have paralyzed manufacturers from the top to the bottom of global supply chains. Join Eric Hiller, who will share how to keep your supply chains up and running now and in the future. This webinar will be most relevant for sourcing professionals and suppliers. If you are unable to attend the webinar, register, and we will send you a link to the recording following the event.

REGISTER FOR: Using Digital Factories to Model Supply Chain Changes

Thursday, May 28, 2020

Session 1: 9:00 AM EST | 3:00 PM CET

Session 2: 2:00 PM EST | 8:00 PM CET

What will COVID-19 cost higher education?

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May 192020

COVID-19 has cost a lot of people, governments, businesses, and non-profits. It has also broken down a lot of mental barriers for things that just “couldn’t be done” and slaughtered a lot of sacred cows. And what cows are more sacred than the ivory towers of academia? What is going to happen to education, especially higher education, because of our unfriendly visitor from Wuhan? Find out in Eric Hiller’s latest article where he takes a hard self-reflecting look at if his own undergraduate degree could have been done just as well (or at least well-enough to justify the massive savings) online! It’s just been published at Marketwatch.

Click here to read: Eric Hiller examines Covid 19 effect on higher education

Corona Supply Chain Blues — what to do about cost, when delivery is a problem

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May 062020

The old world…

So, you had a supply chain, and you thought it was pretty “optimized.”

Yeah, you could improve it here and there, but you had wrung out 95%+ of the addressable waste.

To really make progress, you would need to make MAJOR changes (new suppliers, locations, etc.), but there just is always other stuff to do.

The new world…

Then Corona happens!!!!

Your tidy and luxurious platform is now burning.

Now you have no choice but to DO SOMETHING different.

Cost was really important and you thought delivery and quality were assured.

Now delivery is a huge problem (maybe quality too.)

The future world…

What do you do short term? What do you set up in the future to stop this from happening again?

Find out in Eric Hiller’s new article over at the aPriori blog (which Eric originally started in 2007, when it was “CostCents“) It has been a long time since Eric worked at aPriori or wrote for the blog, but he has some advice now.