The Coronavirus Supply Nightmare – Vitex Pharma

Before she heard news media reports about coronavirus, Lucie Chami, CPO at Vitex Pharmaceuticals in Australia learned one of her suppliers had a “medical problem” delaying production. Within days she was in the thick of a procurement crises. Lucie tells her story in this edition of Global Sourcing Insights from CIPS, and Seshagopal Kannan, a Beroe, Inc. consultant in Bangladore, India joins in. Kannan leads the crisis management analysis of this coronavirus for his firm.