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Supply Chain: Interrupted. A recap of our recent webinar on disruptions and trends from the first half of 2021

Resilinc

In a recent webinar on the state of risk and trends in supply chains, Resilinc CEO, Bindiya Vakil, and Director of Supply Chain Risk Consulting, Hirra Akhtar, described how aftershocks arising from the pandemic continue to disrupt supplies and logistics, and that these disruptions will continue well into 2022.

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How Europe is Coping with Supply Chain Disruption

Jaggaer

Catch the on-demand webinar on building business continuity plans and business strategies for the short, mid and long-term. Yet with the autobahns, motorways and highways largely free of traffic apart from freight, goods are generally getting through and we are yet to see long-term shortages of food and other essential items.

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The Changing Face of Manufacturing: How US Manufacturers are Looking Homeward

GlobalTranz

Starting from the early 1990s, North American and European manufacturers made a beeline to set up factories in China, India, Vietnam and other Asian and African countries where labor was dirt-cheap and the cash-strapped governments of those countries were more than welcoming. Rising costs of labor in China and other places.

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The 18-month outlook points to recovery, albeit (semi)disrupted

Resilinc

There simply aren’t any near-term solutions to re-balance supply and demand in the semiconductor supply chains and markets,” said Vakil in a recent Resilinc webinar. Commodity and raw materials shortages won’t ease before the end of the year—and the semiconductor shortage will endure into 2022 and beyond. 12-to-18-month outlook is mixed.

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Webinar Recap: The Case for a Pan-American Manufacturing Ecosystem

Resilinc

We need to start putting the ingredients in place today,” Linton said in a July 15 webinar: The Case for a Pan American Manufacturing Ecosystem. Closer proximity—as compared to Asia—alone could reduce shipping times and inventory costs, as well as the greenhouse gas emissions from ocean and air freight, according to the three.