host: that is part of the proposal, patrick penfield. how much will that do as far as resolving issues? guest: i applaud the president for getting involved and trying to fix the situation at the ports. it will help a little bit. it will not resolve our issues because the supply chain is so complex, so the help he is stating will be there will definitely give us some relief as far as being able to unload more ships. the problem is that you will have a bottleneck that will form. that is what the ports are right now, they are a bottleneck. the next bottleneck is where are the drivers to move that freight and where do you place it? that is what will happen. host: moving into 24/7 operations, that exacerbates the problem? guest: well, i think it helps the unloading of the ships, but what will happen is that it will cause other issues because we have things sitting there that will still have to be moved, and that is common within supply chains. usually, within -- usually, when you get rid of one bottleneck, another will form baird host: how do

how, let's ask patrick penfield or professor of practice in supply chain management and director of executive education at the whitman school of management at syracuse university of patrick. it's beginning to look a lot like christmas and we keep hearing shop now, or else could this bottleneck made for a blue christmas? yeah, hi, alan, a bridge down to show unfortunately. yes. so we are going to have some disruptions as far as what we're able to purchase. so what you'll see is initially there will be stuff on the shelves. it's, there are a punishment orders. that's the big concern. is, can we get that stuff to the ports? well, this will be an issue long after we dragged that christmas tree to the curb commerce secretary, gina romando sites forecast indicating that if we strengthen american supply chains and manufacturing will boost gross domestic product by up to $460.00 b $1000000000.00. and at a 1000000 and a half jobs and that as we create more jobs, we must ensure we prepare our workers to meet the demands of our modern tact driven economy. situations like this, our cat net for the cable

host: that is part of the proposal, patrick penfield. that do as far as resolving issues? guest: i applaud the president for getting involved and trying to fix the situation at the ports. it will help a little bit. it will not resolve our issues because the supply chain is so complex, so the help he is stating will be there will definitely give us some relief as far as being able to unload more ships. the problem is that you will have a bottleneck that will form. that is what the ports are right now, they are a bottleneck. the next bottleneck is where are the drivers to move that freight and where do you place it? that is what will happen. host: moving into 24/7 operations, that exacerbates the problem? guest: well, i think it helps the unloading of the ships, but what will happen is that it will cause other issues because we have things sitting there that will still have to be moved, and that is common within supply chains. usually, within -- usually, when you get rid of one bottleneck, another will form baird host: how does that work l

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. >>> joining us now patrick penfield, of syracuse university. a supply chain practice professor here to talk about the delays in the supply chain. professor, thanks for giving us your time this morning. >> good morning. glad to be on the show. >> what's the best way to think about the supply chain particularly with the issues that are currently at play? >> yes, so supply chains are pretty simplistic. input transformation output. unfortunately, it's gotten very complicated over the years. and a lot due to cost reductions and trying to get the lowest cost, the best quality. now we have a global supply chain crisis. problems and issues throughout the various parts of the supply chain. >> what's the biggest problems that are adding up to the crisis? >> yeah, the big one is shortage of materials, base ingredients, chemicals, semiconductor chips especially. that's caused issues. we have long lead times. they keep getting longer and longer. an example if you were to ship something from china last year it would take 30, 35 days. now it will take roughly