by Dave Frentzel | Apr 6, 2020 | Briefs, Consumer & Retail, Industrial & Distribution, Life Sciences, Operations
For many companies, the current pandemic is driving an unprecedented urgency to get new logistics providers in place or to add services to the ones already working with your company. For sure, such urgency puts pressure on the provider selection process to be fast....
by Dave Frentzel | Apr 2, 2020 | Briefs, Operations, Strategy
Today’s scope and depth of disruption to companies – especially small- and mid-sized firms – is virtually unprecedented. In this time of the pandemic, most companies will face severe challenges. Operating budgets will come under pressure, particularly when it becomes...
by David Bovet | Mar 25, 2020 | Briefs, Operations, Supply Chain Management
Dramatic images on TV and our own personal experience at the grocery raise the very real question: Will food, other consumer goods and medical necessities be available when and where we need them? The coronavirus has put a stark spotlight on the nation’s producers and...
by Dave Frentzel | Mar 23, 2020 | Briefs, Operations, Strategy
As I write this, we are beginning week two of Massachusetts’ version of the COVID-19 “shelter in place” emergency order. For our clients in non-life sustaining businesses, this Brief condenses what we have been advising, particularly for those running small-to-medium...
by Dave Frentzel | Feb 25, 2020 | Briefs, Due Diligence, Investor Advisory, Operations, Supply Chain Management
In our August 2019 Supply Chain Contingency Planning Brief, the timely “call to action” was the US-China trade war. Today COVID-19 is the greater concern to our supply chains and more tragically to human health. These might be considered black swan events; thus,...
by Dave Frentzel | Aug 3, 2019 | Briefs, Due Diligence, Investor Advisory, Operations, Supply Chain Management, Value Creation
Midwestern soybean farmers and Silicon Valley hi-tech companies are miles apart, yet both currently face a common supply chain crisis with limited options: their high dependency on China. Could better contingency planning have helped both weather this storm? Several...
