How Industry 4.0 can help operations run faster and smarter — while looking ahead for what’s next.

Suresh Acharya, Professor of Practice at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, lays out the challenges of creating an end-to-end supply chain that can produce and distribute millions of doses of a vaccine for COVID-19.

The digital transformation of supply chains has been underway since 2010, but COVID-19 kicked it into top gear.

Rosemary Coates, executive director of The Reshoring Institute, explains why the coronavirus pandemic might finally be the crisis that drives manufacturers to shift production from China back to the U.S.

Ann Marie Uetz, head of the coronavirus task force with the law firm of Foley & Lardner LLP, discusses the results of a pair of surveys about how executives are responding to supply-chain disruptions caused by the pandemic and rising geopolitical tensions.