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When a catastrophic flood halts the flow of critical microchips from Southeast Asia, a young supply chain manager must choose between saving her company’s quarterly profits or its long-standing ethical commitments.

Maya Vasquez had always loved the quiet hum of the supply chain control room. At 29, she was the youngest Director of Global Logistics at Axiom Electronics, a mid-sized manufacturer of medical devices. The wall before her displayed a live digital twin of their end-to-end network — from rare earth mines in Chile to assembly lines in Penang, to warehouses in Rotterdam and hospitals in Chicago. supply chain management ii tresa thompson pdf

Maya’s phone erupted. Production halt in Penang. No chips, no cardiac monitors. Axiom had exactly 12 days of inventory buffer. Hospitals had 30-day contracts. When a catastrophic flood halts the flow of

Next, she convinced two competitors — Medtronic and Philips — to share their chip stockpiles under a temporary humanitarian swap. Antitrust law be damned; she had a former FTC counsel draft a “disaster mutual aid” memo in six hours. The wall before her displayed a live digital