Constraint Management During the Pandemic
Constraint Management During the Pandemic
Never has the importance of supply chain management been as prominent as during the COVID-19 crisis.
Post an article from The Wall Street Journal or other reputable source that highlights a bottleneck or constraint undermining delivery of products, supplies, vaccinations, or medical care.
Explain the nature of the supply, distribution, or delivery problem.
Referencing the 7 key principles of the theory of constraints (p. 223 in our core text), what could be done to identify and manage the constraint to reduce or eliminate the bottleneck?
Focusing on solutions rather than blame, what are the most important lessons that operations leaders dealing with pandemic response can learn to improve the speed of product and service delivery?
Please make sure you answer each question throughly and use JWMI writing standards for the citations
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