<p style="font-weight: 400"><strong>Crib Crawls and Curve Balls:</strong></p> <p style="font-weight: 400"><strong>Wesco's Jefferson Smith and Matt Lasnicki on Supply Chain Challenges </strong>From aging infrastructures to multi-company mergers, Wesco's Jefferson Smith and Matt Lasnicki  have helped their pulp and paper industry customers through a variety of supply chain challenges. As Smith shares in his <em>Paper360°</em> article, <strong>Operations Depend on Equipment Supply Chains</strong>, it's an area mills ignore at their peril: One delayed part can rack up millions of dollars in downtime losses.</p> In this episode of <em>Uptime,</em> Jeff and Matt, along with co-hosts Mark Rushton and Jan Bottiglieri, discuss the current reality for supply chain management—and some strategies for dealing with a world that's increasingly disruptive. "It all compounds," says Lasnicki. " The cost to operate (mills and converting facilities) keeps going up and if they don't find ways to drive efficiency, it's going to be a much bigger challenge for them in the future." <p style="font-weight: 400">Stick around for the <em>Uptime</em> Lightning Round, when we ask Matt and Jeff about the most exciting things they see ahead for supply chain management in paper and packaging. Thanks for listening!</p> <p style="font-weight: 400"><strong>Access additional articles and case studies about effective supply chain management through Wesco's </strong><a href="https://www.wesco.com/us/en/knowledge-hub.html#tabs-f32d508993-item-d311bfe7d4-tab"><strong>Knowledge Hub</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p> <p style="font-weight: 400"><strong> </strong><strong>Review Wesco's </strong><span style="color: #339966"><a style="color: #339966" href="https://www.wesco.com/us/en/industries/industrial-and-manufacturing/pulp-and-paper.html"><strong>products and services</strong></a></span><strong> for pulp and paper industry customers.</strong></p> <p style="font-weight: 400"><strong> </strong><strong>Access more resources through the TAPPI OnDemand platform:</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://ondemand.tappi.org/paper360-2/"><em>Paper360°</em> Archives</a> of searchable articles</li> <li>Search a variety of other industry topics, including <a href="https://ondemand.tappi.org/industry-market-trends/">Market Trends</a></li> </ul>