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Managing Risk and Improving Efficiency of the Supply Chain

Up and Running

As Ryan Vinyard, engineering lead for Highway1 recently stated in an interview with Line//Shape//Space , clear communication with vendors is a critical component of managing supply chain risk. VMI agreements work when you have a solid backlog of sales or when you are confident in your future sales forecasts.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

We can't make a 5-year plan or a 10-year forecast right now, but we know there are investments we can make today that will set ourselves up for success in the future. They were 90 minute, I'll call it, sprints and the team started scrumming really as soon as we got back on Saturday night.