The PPE Coronavirus Crisis: Why supply chains failed and lessons for the future

Date: Monday, July 20, 2020
Time: 9:00 am – 10:00 am Eastern

Description:

The webcast reviews some of the critical mistakes which were made during the early weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic. The presenter highlights how procurement chaos combined with a logistics meltdown to exacerbate global shortages of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).

Presenters:

Professor John Manners-Bell
Chief Executive of Global Market Research
Transport Intelligence

Professor John Manners-Bell is Chief Executive of global market research organisation Transport Intelligence and Honorary Visiting Professor at the London Metropolitan University's Guildhall Faculty of Business and Law. He has been a long time adviser to the World Economic Forum chairing its Logistics and Supply Chain Agenda Council and leading specific projects related to Risk, Ethics, E-commerce, Supply Chain Talent and Food Losses. He has also advised numerous organisations including the European Commission, World Bank and Inter-Americas Development Bank as well as providing evidence on Brexit to a UK House of Lords Select Committee. He is an award winning author of 5 books; the third edition of  his ‘Supply Chain Risk Management’ will be published later in 2020.

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