News Room

During this podcast, Handfield discussed the impact of the recent Suez Canal disruption and its key takeaways from a supply chain risk management perspective, the concept of more regionalized supply chains, approaches to inventorty management, and the increasing importance of supply chains in the corporate world, among others topics. 

While the 100-day review is designed to better understand several aspects of U.S. supply chains, it will hopefully force companies to reassess how they move products through the chain.

Today, an estimated 90% of the world’s goods are transported by sea, with 60% of that – including virtually all your imported fruits, gadgets and appliances – packed in large steel containers. The rest is mainly commodities like oil or grains that are poured directly into the hull. In total, about US$14 trillion of the world’s goods spend some time inside a big metal box.

Defying the pessimists who doubted the ability of Yale students to follow COVID-19 safety protocols, the Yale student body conducted itself in a safer manner than expected last semester. To put a number on it, the R0 value, or the number of secondary cases generated by an initial case, of the student body last semester was 1.85—compared to the 2.3 that experts set as the maximum value that could still keep student infections under control. Yale researchers Joseph Chang, Forrest Crawford, and Edward Kaplan calculated this number and devised the twice-weekly testing plan implemented among Yale College’s on-campus student body last semester. 

Big-power muscle flexing helps explain much of the world’s vaccine inequities, but there's another reason behind insufficient doses: The challenge of making them is unprecedented.