Rx: reclaim & redeploy it.
I used to preach to students that, in product businesses, inventory management is crucially important.
Too much inventory is wasteful investment … too little inventory loses sales … wrongly deployed inventory does both.
So, I’d say, laser-focus on inventory numbers.
They are early indicators of problems that may be cropping up in your business system.
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With that as background (and with my current high interest in getting vaccinated), I was stunned when Biden’s new CDC director claimed: “I can’t tell you how much vaccine we have.” Source
First, I find that claim to be incredible.
Note: Incredible means not credible.
All vaccines must be tagged with IDs in case inoculation problems crop up (think: Moderna’s recent bad batch in California).
And, it has been broadly reported that each container of COVID vaccine has sophisticated RFID tagging that links to location and even reports current temperature.
So, I gotta believe that figuring out how much vaccine there is — and, as important, where it is — is imminently doable.
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Further, the CDC publishes daily stats on doses distributed and used.
Let’s start there … with the published CDC data:
Rounding up for simplicity:
- 50 million doses have been received and distributed (to states) by the Feds
- 25 million have been used (by states & localities via hospitals, etc.)
That means that 25 million doses are either “in transit” (probably a very small amount) or “in inventory” (probably the bulk of the doses).
My question: Where the hell are the 25 million doses? Who is holding them, where are they holding them and why are they holding it?
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