The supply chain challenges of vaccinating 8bn people: Part 1 - a chat with Alina Gross

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This is the first of a two part podcast series on the challenges of vaccinating everyone against Covid-19.

Background - in August a colleague of mine Alina Gross (@gross_alinaa on Twitter) penned an excellent in-depth piece of Forbes titled The Next Supply Chain Challenge: How To Vaccinate The World.

I was reminded of that recently when Pfizer and BioNTech announced the successful results of their vaccine trials.

A couple of days later I was made aware that SAP announced its Vaccine Collaboration Hub (VCH) to address many of the challenges highlighted in Alina's article.

I reached out to Alina, and members of the VCH team to see if they'd come on the podcast to discuss this unique supply chain challenge, and they agreed, so here we are. In this episode Alina is discussing with me some of the challenges. On Monday next Chris Roediger will chat with me about the Vaccine Collaboration Hub.

This was a really interesting episode of the podcast. I thoroughly enjoyed it, I learned loads, and I hope you do too.

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To learn more about how Industry 4.0 technologies can help your organisation read the 2020 global research study 'The Power of change from Industry 4.0 in manufacturing' (https://www.sap.com/cmp/dg/industry4-manufacturing/index.html)

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