Author: Leon Steyn

As with most other spheres of society, our supply chains took a massive hit – and are still recovering – from the disruption of the global pandemic. From healthcare facilities and communities desperately waiting for medical and hygiene supplies to backlogged factories scrambling to remedy critical assembly-line components only produced in China, cracks (or, in this case, choke points) started appearing in global supply chains, exposing just how vulnerable and fragile these systems are, especially in the face of a storm. With record-long lead times, supply and demand issues, widescale shortages of base materials, transportation difficulties, and sick workers to…