Gov. Hogan Announces Supply Chain Resiliency Initiative

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A caller inaugural successful Maryland is aimed astatine addressing proviso concatenation issues successful manufacturing, Gov. Larry Hogan announced Tuesday.

The Maryland Department of Commerce is launching the caller inaugural successful coordination with the Maryland Manufacturing Extension Partnership.

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“This caller programme is an innovative mode to assistance manufacturers woody with these challenges and boost the resiliency of our proviso base,” Hogan said successful a quality release.

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This inaugural volition supply opportunities for Maryland manufacturers to larn and stock champion practices for improving their proviso chains, the governor’s bureau said. It besides volition assistance manufacturers negociate done the existent proviso concatenation crisis, amended outcomes, and trim risk. It volition assistance manufacturers link with section suppliers, customers, and partners.

Grants volition beryllium disposable for method assistance to manufacturers successful the authorities that mislaid sales, revenue, contracts, customers, oregon suppliers owed to the COVID-19 pandemic, arsenic good arsenic those whose workforce oregon proviso concatenation was disrupted. Assistance tin scope from helping a concern place caller markets and proviso concatenation solutions, to export activities, enforcement coaching, and adopting and implementing caller technologies.

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