CEO and founder of Resilinc Bindiya Vakil is a recognized thought leader in supply chain risk management. Her concept of "Design for Resiliency" is being widely adopted as a best practice in the industry. She has penned several pieces for Harvard Business Review and provides regular commentary about everything from semiconductors to food for many TV and print publications, including the TODAY Show, CNN Business, Associated Press, Bloomberg, and Eat This, Not That!
Before Resilinc, she managed high-tech supply chains for Flextronics, Cisco, and Broadcom. In 2013, Ms. Vakil was named a Top Female Supply Chain Executive by Supply & Demand Chain Executive. She has a master's degree in supply chain management from MIT and an MBA in finance from Sardar Patel University.
General Motors, Toyota and Honda reported substantial declines in second-quarter sales, but not for lack of demand.
Consumers nationwide have already seen prices soar on everyday items from gas to electronics. Now it turns out that due to such factors as labor shortages, the cost of meat, a dinnertime staple for many Americans, is also going up. NBC’s Kerry Sanders reports for In Depth TODAY.
The unraveling of the global supply chain has been blamed on a multitude of factors — the pandemic, labor and raw material shortages, skyrocketing shipping prices and adverse weather events among them. Now, add one more to the list: a surge in factory fires.