A Shot in the Arm: How Science, Engineering, and Supply Chains Converged to Vaccinate the World
Published Date
December 15, 2021
Source
Supply Chain Management Review
Description
When the COVID-19 pandemic struck in early 2020, in what ultimately became perhaps the greatest global supply chain disruption since World War II, employees began working from home, consumers were battling to hoard toilet paper (detailing the origins of this and other shortages) and companies were navigating the combined impacts of changing consumer demand, disrupted suppliers, fractured transportation links and new workplace regulations. At the same time, I began watching another story unfolding in the laboratories of universities and pharmaceutical companies...