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Join MIT Global SCALE Connect for an in-depth conversation with Paul Granadillo, SVP Global Supply Chain at Moderna. MIT Professor Yossi Sheffi speaks with Paul about how the pandemic vaccine response reshaped manufacturing, business, and supply chains at Moderna.

Shelves at the pet food aisle are looking bare recently, leaving some pet owners scrambling to find the foods their animals need. It's a shortage issue that stems from the global supply chain woes that continues to affect nearly every industry, including pet products. "Demand for goods started going through the roof," noted Yossi Sheffi, director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics and a chain supply professor. Sheffi said the pandemic has led to an increase in pet adoptions, and therefore an increase in pet spending.

Professor Yossi Sheffi, one of the world's leading scholars in the field of supply chain management. Regarding the cause of the global supply chain crisis triggered by the novel coronavirus pandemic, Professor Sheffi said, “The Federal Reserve (the central bank of the United States) can solve trillions of dollars right away with a single signature, but parts or finished products can cost thousands of miles.

Mecalux sat down with Professor Yossi Sheffi, Director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics, to talk about how Covid-19 is reshaping businesses and supply chains -and what's coming next. 

Most of us know that the COVID vaccines from Moderna, Pfizer and J&J were developed, approved and rolled out to the public in record time, and on a global basis. But few of us understand the heroic effort that happened behind the scenes to make this a reality.

This episode of The Logistics Tribe is hosted by Marco Prüglmeier, with guest Dr. Yossi Sheffi, and covers a wide spectrum of topics: the Semiconductor shortage, supply chain disruptions during COVID, climate change, globalization and the role technology can play to tackle all of those issues.

Adrian and Devin, co-hosts of The Black Agenda podcast, speak with Professor Yossi Sheffi of MIT about the supply chain and what we can expect to see this Holiday Season. Sit back and listen well.

Peggy and Yossi Sheffi, professor, MIT, talk about the supply chain difficulties today and his most recent book The New (Ab)Normal. He says the experience of writing the book was weird—like writing a history book while history is unfolding.

They discuss:

• The biggest problem with the supply chain today that needs to be solved.
• Why demand is high and supply can’t catch up.
• The bullwhip effect on the supply chain and how to address it.

We learn about about the development of successful Covid-19 vaccines in record time — including the science behind them and the supply chains that enabled them. Our guest is Dr. Yossi Sheffi, a professor of engineering systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics. (Podcast)

Renowned MIT Professor and supply chain management expert Yossi Sheffi recently released his 6th book, titled ‘A Shot in the Arm: How Science, Engineering, and Supply Chains Converged to Vaccinate the World’.