Employer 49

Be ready to grab a nice cup of coffee or beer while working at your dining room table.

Employer 50

· tight global market.

· tariff changes are still there and don’t look like it’s going away.

· we need to start planning long-term for Covid, not short term.

Employer 51

PPE requirements, BOLs/contractual agreements around PODs, and capacity constraints.

Employer 52

Applying practices for filling operations gaps to personnel planning based on government policies.

Employer 53

If a person can do their job remotely, that person is likely to be working from home. For a graduating student, this may represent a challenge. A lot of learning takes place at a facility and a new hire needs to be a bit aggressive with the mgr and colleagues to learn.

Employer 54

The big mindset to move supply chains out of China. MIST countries have been popular along with bringing back to USA. Industry 4.0 continues to have a large impact on automation.

WFH environments have a big impact on the overall method of doing business. No longer feasible to visit supplier sites to audit their processes as easily. Large changes to who is the point of contact (internal and external) have strained communication processes and overall business operations.

Employer 55

Less interaction with drivers, documents becoming digital rather than physical.

Employer 56

There has been a push to move more and more manufacturing capacity out of China and into other countries both in Asia and around the world. This began before COVID, but was accelerated by the pandemic. Increased activity to move manufacturing capacity to established supply lanes like India and Brazil has been accompanied by a newly developing interest in Vietnam, Laos and other similar nations with less established supply lanes and more unknowns.

Employer 57

The need to source PPE quickly and implement standard operating procedures for our employees. The shifting of corporate work from being nearly 100% on-site to completely remote. Use of MS Teams for video conferencing.

Employer 58

Telecommunication, Telecommunications have proven to be expedited during this period. I would say auto manufacturers (or manufacturers in general) have generally lacked in being able to conduct business from a remote basis. While the production floor requires the onsite presence, I have seen the while collar jobs in the back office mainly transitioned due to this.

While I feel working remotely is a Millennial push, this has expedited the process and brought to light needs for building/facilities and potential cost savings in rent for a business.

Planning, More constraints in our clients supply chain are causing them to have to plan more effectively. Longer lead times/ inability to procure items are some things I have seen.

Employer 59

Reorganization at the corporate level of functional groups (Engineering, Supply management, Marketing, etc.).

Employer 60

In general, you have to deal with more virtual work and learn how to do more with technologies.

Employer 61

The way manufacturing is done. Plants have had to figure out a way to make things socially distanced, putting extra safety precautions in place, working with fewer operators due to people being out due to COVID, figuring out ways to attract more workers due to benefits from the pandemic causing people to not want to come back to work. There is also increased timing at the borders due to COVID as well which causes more logistics issues. Also issues with material coming from overseas, huge delays due to COVID which causes more logistic issues. It is overall a massive headache to the entire supply chain.

Employer 62

More emphasis on Financial Health.

Employer 63

Be prepared for the unexpected, not only Covid, but many other issues affect supply and students need to be able to react quickly.

Employer 64

Greater focus on preferred supplier and relationships within supply chain. Want to do business with trusted suppliers with bi-lateral and win-win mindset.

Stronger segmentation focus understanding criticality of our supply chain and how to diversify and mitigate high-risk partnerships.

Employer 65

Country’s ability to put export restrictions and the affect it has on those countries importing those goods.

Employer 66

The opportunity to work remotely is better than ever. Leverage the opportunity to work remotely to achieve work life balance.

Employer 67

Creating more visibility with our suppliers. For my internship in the summer of 2019, I created 3 tools that we have been using very regularly during COVID. These tools have allowed us to gain more insight into our supplier’s processes and have reduced their lead times.