We explore supply chain visibility challenges in the context of our contemporary COVID pandemic, and offer insights, models and potential solutions to remove barriers to clear supply chain visibility. In this paper, we describe how visibility and velocity are the two key attributes that are required to enabling critical decision-making accuracy which will in turn increase the ability of local, state and federal healthcare and public health decision-makers to response to shifts in the U.S. system. We describe the problems in current systems due to the lack of visibility of material in global supply chains, which in turn leads to problems such as the lack of PPE that occurred during the COVID pandemic. We conclude with recommendations on how to render inventory more visible for the future.

我们在当代 COVID 大流行的背景下探索供应链可见性挑战，并提供见解、模型和潜在解决方案，以消除清除供应链可见性的障碍。在本文中，我们描述了可见性和速度如何成为实现关键决策准确性所需的两个关键属性，从而提高地方、州和联邦医疗保健和公共卫生决策者应对变化的能力美国系统。我们描述了当前系统中由于缺乏全球供应链中材料的可见性而导致的问题，这反过来又导致了在 COVID 大流行期间出现的缺乏 PPE 等问题。最后，我们提出了有关如何使库存在未来更加可见的建议。