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Host Bonnie D. Graham welcomes Cathy Fisher, Founder and President of Quistem, LLC, and Terry Onica, Director of Automotive at QAD.

Cathy and Terry share their expert insights on the automotive supply chain crisis. “It’s not just because of COVID. As an industry, we have not learned our lessons from the past to prevent disruptions.”

They advise automotive manufacturers to apply the same level of systems thinking to supply chain management as they have applied to vehicle quality and safety because “money is made in the supply chain, not only on the shop floor.” For automation to really work, automotive manufacturers need to begin with supply chain processes and people.

Tune in for Part 2 of this conversation on-demand starting November 9, 2021.

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