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Manufacturing in The Age of COVID-19

In this podcast, Jeff Berman, Group News Editor for Logistics Management and Peerless Media Supply Chain Group, interviews Tim Fiore, Chairman of the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) Manufacturing Business Survey Committee.


Recording Date/Time
Thursday, May 21, 2020 11:07AM
Podcast Duraton
00:17:10 hrs/min/sec

In this podcast, Jeff Berman, Group News Editor for Logistics Management and Peerless Media Supply Chain Group, interviews Tim Fiore, Chairman of the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) Manufacturing Business Survey Committee.

During this podcast, ISM’s Fiore offered up an in-depth look of the current state of manufacturing and how the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is impacting output and overall production.

Fiore also provided insight into recent data highlighted in the monthly ISM Manufacturing Report on Business, as well as the organization’s recently-released Semiannual Economic Forecast.

In his “day job,” Fiore is a senior vice-president Chief Procurement Officer for Ryder System in Miami, he has held executive roles, in supply chain, materials handling and purchasing and procurement, at various companies throughout his career, including Pratt & Whitney and ThyssenKrupp NA, among others.


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Jeff Berman
Jeff Berman is Group News Editor for Logistics Management, Modern Materials Handling, and Supply Chain Management Review and is a contributor to Robotics 24/7. Jeff works and lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, where he covers all aspects of the supply chain, logistics, freight transportation, and materials handling sectors on a daily basis.
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