In March $2020,$ organizational leaders across the world were faced with emergency decisions regarding how their business would continue and how products and services would be produced and into the hands of the consumer. The COVID pandemic demanded a shift in thinking patterns regarding how we do business, which included a serious look at the internal vulnerabilities to a changing external environment $.$ In this assignment, think about how such changes affect the strategy of operations across the system. How have changes in the external environment affected the 'thinkingof operations management $?$ include in your analysis the impact that these changes have on the supply chain decisions in the organization $.$