The MEP Messenger | The Supply Chain Edition

Your supply chain is facing never ending challenges.
Your supply chain is facing never ending challenges.

THE SUPPLY CHAIN EDITION

For this edition of the Nebraska Manufacturing Extension newsletter, we are focusing our discussion on supply chain performance. No matter what you manufacture, your supply chain is facing never ending challenges and pressures to deliver the needed expectations to make your business successful.
For additional information, please contact
Dale Dolezal, Supply Chain Program Manager,
402-276-4490
ddolezal4@unl.edu

 

Supply Chain touches all aspects of your business

Your End-to-End Supply Chain touches essentially all aspects of your company's value streams.  Some people believe that the supply chain only touches your external material flows and suppliers. In reality, your End-to-End Supply Chain touches essentially all aspects of your company's value streams.

Your supply chain includes the front end process associated with how you plan and conduct b Continue reading…

 

Supply Chain Risk and Resilience Review

Supply Chain Risk and Resilience ReviewAnother area that the Nebraska MEP can help to improve your supply chain is a review of the risk that is imbedded within your supply chain and to help you build resiliency strategies into your supply chain.

Supply Chain Risk – The likelihood and consequence of events, at any point in the end to e Continue reading…

 

Strategic Sourcing

Check out the Nebraska Supply Chain DatabaseAnother hot topic in the supply chain arena is the focus on strategic sourcing of your key inbound materials. This may be driven by many factors such as tariff management, continuous cost improvement, and risk management.
Our key objective is to drive domestic sourcing and thus reduce the Continue reading…

 
Originally published December 5, 2025 - Submit an Item