Tag: Supply Chains

Supply Chains Survived COVID-19 (Fukunari Kimura, JIIA)

Despite widely-shared concern about their fragility, supply chains survived the COVID-19 shocks. In particular, the sophisticated international production networks (IPNs) in East Asia...

Supply chain disruptions and bottlenecks dampen the global economic recovery (Otaviano Canuto, Center for Macroeconomics and Development)

Scarcity of inputs and goods has been felt all over the world because of disruptions to global value chains since the beginning of the...

Why Are Supply Chains Blocked? (Michael Spence, Project-Syndicate)

Supply-chain disruptions are severely hampering the global economic recovery. It is a strange situation in many ways. The types of products and services affected...

US and European strategies for resilient supply chains (Marianne Schneider-Petsinger, Chatham House)

The US, the EU and the UK hold a leading position in international trade and the global economy, and enjoy wide-reaching economic partnerships with...

Supply Chains – Making Supply Chains More Resilient (Project-Syndicate)

DALIA MARIN writes: The current global semiconductor shortage illustrates how geographic clustering of input suppliers can generate upheavals in the rest of the world....

Supply chains are on the cusp of a data-fed revolution. Here’s how businesses can succeed (WEF)

Rob Handfield - Bank of America University Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management , North Carolina State University Poole College of Management Tom...

East Asia/Supply Chains – COVID-19 won’t rattle East Asian supply chains (East Asia Forum)

Fukunari Kimura, Keio University In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a series of overreactions about the viability of global value chains...

(Supply Chains/Climate Change) Supply chains can be a climate game-changer. Here’s why (Rich Lesser, WEF)

Eight supply chains account for more than 50% of global CO2 emissions. Fully decarbonizing these would add just 1-4% to end-consumer costs for...

AUSTRALIA/COVID19/SUPPLY CHAINS/SOVEREIGN CAPABILITY – What the coronarvirus crisis has taught us about supply chains and sovereign capability (Anthony Bergin, ASPI)

The supply chain vulnerabilities exposed by the pandemic have important lessons for other types of emergencies. https://www.aspi.org.au/opinion/what-coronarvirus-crisis-has-taught-us-about-supply-chains-and-sovereign-capability  

PANDEMIC/SUPPLY CHAINS – Supply Chains and Demand (Richard Haass, Project-Syndicate)

The pandemic has shown that supply chains will need to be rethought, with more emphasis put on supplier diversification, domestic production, and stockpiling. The...