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This Week in Logistics News (May 14 – 20)

Logistics Viewpoints

Wingcopter to deploy 12,000 drones across Africa. The supply chain’s little-known weakest link: railroad workers. Nations aim to secure supply chains with “friend-shoring”. Shortages of baby formula began to take effect last summer amid supply chain disruptions, product recalls, and inflation.

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Analyzing Supply Chain Risk

Enterra Insights

The scale of supply chain disruptions has reached new heights in recent months.”[1] A decade ago, supply chain analyst Trevor Miles ( @milesahead ) wrote, “I almost feel that we should be shouting ‘Vuka’ which in Xhosa (one of the South Africa languages) means ‘wake up.’ ”[7]. .”