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H.B.R. presents. Hi there I'm Azima Zar and you're listening to the Exponential View podcast.

Now every week I explore the shape of the exponential age and these days this also means

exploring important questions through the prism of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Today I'm speaking with Pamela Mar, she is the executive

vice president of knowledge and applications at the Fung Group. The

Fung Group is often seen as a bellwether for global retail.

It has more than 40,000 employees working in 40 different countries that manage every aspect

of the world's largest supply chain for clothes, apparel and many other goods. If you are listening to this in the United States,

Europe or many other parts of the world, the chances are you have something in your

wardrobe that has been produced somewhere by the Fung Group. The firm sits as a middleman, an

orchestrator between manufacturers and Asia and retailers in the West, and this

gives Pamela a unique perspective on the complexity of the global supply chain and how it's being impacted by the current pandemic.

Pamela, welcome to exponential view. Thank you. We have heard how supply chains, these systems that encapsulate the production and

distribution of the things that we buy as businesses and consumers have

really been hit hard by the shutdowns in response to the COVID pandemic. And it's prevented supply chains functioning

and ultimately preventing finished products

getting to the final market.

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