ASU professor weighs in on fireworks supply chain issues as Valley cities pivot, cancel shows
Arizona’s Family spoke with an ASU supply chain expert, who estimates Americans will spend $2.5 billion on Independence Day celebrations this year.
In this story published June 29, 2022, on Arizona's Family:
I teach it to my students: The strength of any supply chain is the strength of the weakest link. The weakest link at the moment is production in China. We have been ordering so many goods, and China is just coming out of the shutdown of major cities. Their factories are not running on all cylinders at this moment.
– Hitendra Chaturvedi, professor of practice in supply chain management
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