Impact of COVID-19 on Retail Supply Chains
In this podcast, Jeff Berman, Group News Editor for Logistics Management and the Peerless Media Supply Chain Group, interviews Jonathan Gold, Vice President for Supply Chain and Customs Policy, for the National Retail Federation (NRF).
In this podcast, Jeff Berman, Group News Editor for Logistics Management and the Peerless Media Supply Chain Group, interviews Jonathan Gold, Vice President for Supply Chain and Customs Policy, for the National Retail Federation (NRF).
Jonathan Gold offers up take on impact of COVID-19 on retail supply chains.
Gold provided a deep dive on key takeaways of the most recent edition of the monthly Port Tracker report issued by the NRF and maritime consultancy Hackett Associates, with a sharp focus at the impact of COVID-19 on United States imports.
Other subjects addressed over the course of the podcast included the biggest challenges retail supply chains are currently facing, as well as a look at how the gradual re-opening of the United States economy could play out, as it relates to things like what the new normal may look like and how retailers’ traditional supply chain playbooks may be changing.
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