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How to Fix Broken Supply Chains | Dustin Burke | TED

Supply chain challenges are real, but they’re not new, says global trade expert Dustin Burke. In the face of disruptions ranging from natural disasters to pandemics, how do we make sure supply chains can keep up? Burke offers a combination of solutions — from companies sharing risk to better forecasting disruptions — to help create…

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March 4, 2022

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James Leach

February 10, 2022 at 4:09 pm

Dustin nice presentation-Jim

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- Josiah French
  
  March 4, 2022 at 8:08 pm
  
  Jim well said-Josiah
  
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- HaniaGamer
  
  March 4, 2022 at 8:19 pm
  
  Josiah facts- Nolan
  
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محسن سبعان

March 4, 2022 at 8:09 pm

Thank you.

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Roel Candaele

March 4, 2022 at 8:15 pm

😘💓

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D_Unknown

March 4, 2022 at 8:39 pm

Very informative and easy to understand. Thank you

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AKUJU

March 4, 2022 at 8:53 pm

Russia is listening 👀

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pyropulse

March 4, 2022 at 8:59 pm

The elite are breaking them in purpose, so they can’t be fixed

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Alexander Stewart

March 4, 2022 at 9:09 pm

Is this Ted from Breaking Bad? I thought that dude ran his company into the ground.

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chapinero017

March 4, 2022 at 9:28 pm

Work in community and prosperity will come.

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Gaasuba Meskhenet

March 4, 2022 at 9:29 pm

lighten the burden by producing for need instead of profit. end forced labor. let the people and the planet rest. no more evictions from primary residences!!

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Gaasuba Meskhenet

March 4, 2022 at 9:30 pm

lighten the burden by letting people have the free time to do the works they find enjoyable! I want to grow food and do repairs! end forced labor! no more evictions from primary residences! let the people and the planet rest!

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Danielle Simms

March 4, 2022 at 9:46 pm

Yes, please, lessons learned instead of repeating the cycle (meaning never learning from/changing behavior).

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IM SUBBING TO EVERYONE WHO SUBS TO ME

March 4, 2022 at 10:00 pm

this is very informative and well put together

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SUBBING TO EVERYONE WHO SUBS TO ME

March 4, 2022 at 10:00 pm

this is very informative and well put together

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Steve Steele

March 4, 2022 at 11:11 pm

When restaurants were shut down, they should have still had them prepare food or at least package them, then the government could have subsidized the cost. But instead we threw all that food away because it wasn’t packaged to consumers. Same with cruise ships, they could’ve processed that food. You saw the lines of middle class waiting at food banks.

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- Santa Claus
  
  March 5, 2022 at 4:17 am
  
  How about nothing should have been shut down ?
  
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- Steve Steele
  
  March 5, 2022 at 9:00 am
  
  @Santa Claus yeah, we didn’t even have testing for a month so you want to send people into the unknown. You first.
  
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Toni

March 5, 2022 at 12:06 am

It happened everywhere, Australia too. One only per person in the supermarket. It still ran out.

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Toni

March 5, 2022 at 12:09 am

Stop growing the same stuff and make sure there’s enough of everything instead of just the rubbish we get the most of.

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Todd Hensley

March 5, 2022 at 1:44 am

Insurance might be a bad analogy. How well would insurance companies fare if everyone got into a car crash at the same time?

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March 5, 2022 at 2:34 am

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Deepak Arya

March 5, 2022 at 3:31 am

Thanks 🙏

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LTVoyager

March 5, 2022 at 3:33 am

The problem is that insurance is about money and money doesn’t have a shelf life, seldom becomes obsolete if talking major currencies and is quickly transferred around the world electronically. Many physical goods have one or more of these issues. Many chemicals can’t be stored for 10+ years. Many products become obsolete. How long do you think you can store microprocessors before they are no longer viable? And the physical materials need to be shipped at some point which takes time and may not be possible if transportation is one of the affected industries. I like the creative thinking, but I just don’t see the insurance analogy being viable for physical materials.

The biggest problem is evidenced by all of the cloth mask wearing people in the audience. This shows the irrational fear that our politicians and public health officials generated which is the root cause of the panic buying and hoarding. If we had managed the pandemic using science and data rather than using propaganda and fear-mongering, we’d have had FAR less issues with supply chain and also we would have made covid endemic much more quickly and with less overall loss of life. So, our supply issues are really political failings at heart.

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antonio munoz

March 5, 2022 at 5:31 am

Count less on foreign goods and focus on made in America products.

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- APEX PREDATOR 101
  
  March 5, 2022 at 10:11 am
  
  International trade is fine, but fundamental needs like ⚡, 💦 & food should be mostly localized.
  
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March 5, 2022 at 10:09 am

Answer: AUTOMATION

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1goldinga

March 5, 2022 at 12:26 pm

Simple answer. Remove idiots and lobbyists from politics. Problem solves itself.

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March 5, 2022 at 12:28 pm

Another crazy thought allow ships to dock rather than anchoring outside of ports for weeks if not months because…science. or even crazier, don’t mandate an allready struggling industry.

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Som Gears

March 5, 2022 at 1:02 pm

If you consider the supply chain, the costs go up steeply. Large companies may be able to lay out multiple supply chains to share the risk, smaller companies simply don’t have that ability.

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March 5, 2022 at 2:13 pm

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March 6, 2022 at 2:11 am

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Kongolox

March 6, 2022 at 2:45 am

I think the consumers are part of the problem.. Many ppl had to throw away their toiletpapers because they bought too much of.

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March 6, 2022 at 7:22 am

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Lance Hardwood

March 6, 2022 at 4:02 pm

Oh great, more ways for Wall Street to create artificial shortages to create price gouging renenue profits to increase stock prices at consumers expense

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