I recently sat down with Donna Warton, our Corporate Vice President, Windows and Devices Supply Chain and Sustainability, to discuss how Microsoft was affected by the global supply chain disruption, key learnings that emerged and how we’re preparing for the unpredictable future. To mitigate the ...
Booming demand for consumer and goods, labor shortages, bad weather, and an array ofCOVID-relatedsupply chain snarls are contributing to backlogs of cargo ships at ports around the world. Among those seaports are the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach in Southern California, the two ...
watch now Share Squawk Box Asia Any small disruption in China will have a ripple effect across the global supply chain, says HSBC Parash Jain of the bank says the "sheer importance" of China to global trade means that as long as the country maintains its zero-Covid policy, supply chain ...
Supply chain disruption most severe in Europe and North America Hold-up risks steep rise in input costs and consumer prices Global supply chains are facing resurfacing problems at the end of 2020. After a year of disruption from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the volatili...
The advisory presents contingency solutions to mitigate the risks and managing the supply chain disruption including forming a contingency group for detecting main problems, encouraging trading networks to join contingency plans, implementing the contingency plan quickly.Pieri...
Technology may be disrupting the world of supply chain management, but now more than ever, logistics providers cannot afford to lose sight oftheir people. Meeting global supply chain disruption head on The disruptions and challenges have come thick and fast. It’s tempting to say we want things...
“Each industry has to assess what the impact of this disruption was on them and their suppliers,” Eshkenazi said. Moving forward, supply chains need to become more agile and resilient to large-scale events with the potential to slow or stop the flow of materials or goods. ...
Amidst the Red Sea crisis, an analysis by Foreign Policy magazine in late January called China "ahead of the curve" and the BRI "a blueprint for what every nation needs in an age of uncertainty and disruption." "The solution to supply shocks is more supply chains. More belts, more roads...
Mar 2 – Global supply chain expert Dr. Nada Sanders explains how we are looking at a perfect storm of global supply disruptions, first with Covid and the lockdowns, and now with an energy and a food crisis based on what we see happening......
Recovery is a challenging prospect but possible for nearly every chain still. The question is how to get things back to an operational status that also provides long-term security. Resilience is the word of the quarter, resting on all lips as supply chain risk assessments are finished and crit...