University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: Quick Response Manufacturing

Ernest Nicolas on Supply Chain Resilience, Lifelong Learning, and DEI

In this interview, Rebecca Jamieson talks with Ernest Nicholas, the senior vice president and chief supply chain officer for Rockwell Automation. Ernest speaks about how his many connections across UW-Madison contributed to his professional success, the value of lifelong learning, and the urgent need for engineering and the supply chain to increase diversity, equity, and …

QRM Provides Tools to Solve Global Supply Chain Crisis

Rajan Suri, founding director for the UW-Madison’s Center for Quick Response Manufacturing (QRM), was recently featured in Insight on Business Magazine. In his article, “Reshoring Production Without Increasing Costs,” Suri describes how insights from QRM can play a role in solving the current global supply chain crisis. “With U.S. labor costs several times higher than …