Questions:

$1.$ How does the surge in demand of appliances affect inventory management for manufacturers such as Whirlpool?

$2.$ How does the surge in demand of appliances affect its supply chain?

$3.$ What Supply and Procurement Planning policies and$/$or practices led to Appliance Shortages?

$4.$ What steps and$/$or actions does an organization take to recognize customer demand? From long term, $12$ months, to quarters, to months, and to days of demand?

$5.$ How do Supply Managers communicate customer demand to suppliers?

$6.$ What steps and$/$or actions should a Supply Manager take to assure continuity of supply and prevent shortages?

$7.$ From $2020$ Pandemic negative impacts on supply chains, there is much discussion of supply chain resiliency. What does that mean? And, how does a company improve their SC resiliency?

$8.$ What are the $3$ V$$s of Supply Chain Management? And, what do they mean to SC

management?

a$.$ Visibility

b$.$ Variability

c$.$ Velocity

$9.$ How does supply chain strategy support organization strategy in times of business

expansion? And, during times of business decline, like most of pandemic era?

$10.$ How does a company use spend analytics to manage their supply base? PS $$ there are hints in the Kraljic Matrix Procurement model