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The ‘Virtual Shift’: How Manufacturing Can Adapt to Remote Work

With almost 50% of the workforce now working remotely, manufacturers face three major challenges.

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How Blockchain Benefits the Coffee Supply Chain

Blockchain can help ensure that coffee growers are given fair payments for their crops, and are maintaining sustainability practices.

0102 Coffee

What’s That Smell? A Machine Can Tell

Today’s computers have the equivalent of human eyes, ears, mouths and limbs. Why not noses as well?

1012 Vanilla

Watch: Managing Third-Party Risks to Global Supply Chains

Phil Renaud, executive director of The Risk Institute at The Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business, runs down the level of risk to supply chains created by relationships with third parties — and relates how a certain type of third party can help to mitigate it.

Managing Third-Party Risks to Global Supply Chains

Watch: Lessons for Manufacturers From the Pandemic

Al Guarnieri, partner in the law firm of Parker Poe, details how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the planning efforts of manufacturers in the short, medium and long term.

Lessons for Manufacturers From the Pandemic

Watch: Redesigning Office Space in the Post-Pandemic Era

Brad Simmons, managing partner with KAI Design, speculates about the form that the office of the future will take, to accommodate the need for social distancing as well as permanent remote workers.

Redesigning Office Space in the Post-Pandemic Era

Applying Blockchain and Machine Learning to Drug Supply Chains

For many years, pharmaceutical companies have struggled to track products through the supply chain. This drawback has made it easy for counterfeiters to introduce fake drugs into the market.

Source: Bloomberg

Watch: Should Manufacturers Be Insured Against Cyberattack?

Conan Ward, president and general manager of RubiQon Risk, a newly formed subsidiary of QOMPLX, details the evolution of the cyber-risk insurance industry, and describes how it can protect manufacturers against loss from cyberattacks.

Should Manufacturers Be Insured Against Cyber Attack?

In the Pandemic, Factories’ Commitment to Human Rights Is Slipping

As if damage to people and supply chains by the coronavirus pandemic and economic freefall weren’t bad enough, add to it the greater difficulty of monitoring human rights violations in distant farms and factories.

An employee gathers protective face masks from a production line conveyor. Photo: Bloomberg.

Podcast | What Does It Take to Persuade People?

Most of us fashion ourselves as rational beings, willing to change our minds when presented with facts that contradict our position. What a lovely fantasy.

0925 Persuade People

Three Ways to Navigate Uncertainty With a ‘Zero-Based’ Supply Chain

Companies can identify untapped value by applying zero-basing to every part of the supply chain.

0807 Talent Recruitment

Boosting Manufacturing Efficiency During COVID-19

Manufacturers seeking to adapt to the current moment have a wide range of options.

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