We spent more than $70 billion last year on goods and services around the globe through our Global Supply Chain organization. ... "What we learned is the shortages in the PPE supply chain … India, another major supplier of key pharmaceuticals and PPE, has just imposed a ban on exporting many of them. The medical supply chains are critical as they are key components for an effective health care system. Author AHRMM COVID-19 Update and Resource Page Weekly PPE Availability and Allocations Survey (Sign-up Form). While many of these suppliers are authentic and have the facilities and production capacity to fulfill the orders they take; unfortunately, scammers continue to leverage COVID-19 … The increased global demand for PPE led to a flood of entrepreneurs entering the marketplace with little experience. Supply chain disruption: Over 90% of Internationally sourced PPE shipments have been disrupted in some way; Compliance issues: Cargo inspection rates of PPE out of China have dramatically increased, lengthening the average waiting period prior to transportation from 3 hours to 2-3 days. The current PPE supply chain is unreliable, insecure and frought with risk: The Aegis Global Network’s End-to-End PPE Solutions remove risk by providing a custom, robust, secure ecosystem for procurement, via a validated End-to-End Risk-Managed Supply Chain. That’s everything from network equipment, gateways, and Wi-Fi hotspots to cell phones and light bulbs. two decades of reliance on globalised supply chains has left high income countries without the infrastructure and experience to manufacture and distribute PPE en masse. The hidden cost of this high dependence on the global supply chain … Moreover, the risk with abandoning that global chain altogether, says Shih, is that more local production would lead to a more fragmented supply chain. doi: 10.1136/bmj.m1910. A resilient supply chain is vital in supporting these operations. Mostly invisible to the outside world. including personal protective equipment (PPE) and pharmaceuticals—as the United ... -19 pandemic with limited domestic stockpiles and insufficient U.S. industrial capacity. PPE: what now for the global supply chain? 2020 May 15;369:m1910. Classification of PPE PPE Supply Chain Analysis Global GDP Growth Rate (2005-2020) Organic Traffic Growth or Decline due to COVID-19 (2020) The U.S. Government … AHRMM is collaborating with GHX using the same tools, expertise and processes leveraged by its Vendormate solutions to vet non-traditional suppliers offering PPE supplies. A New Global PPE Supply Chain In order to fill the gap, new suppliers are emerging across all corners of the globe. BMJ.