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No End In Sight to Supply-Chain Snarls, So Now What?
Freight logjams and shortages of everything from garbage truck parts to chips are forcing manufacturers to come up with alternatives.
This earnings season, you’d be hard put to find a press release or conference-call discussion that didn’t include a mention of supply-chain bottlenecks.
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The concept of a “supply chain” tends to conjure up images of routine, repetition and predictability; the concept is most commonly illustrated by a straight line or a perfect circle. The pandemic threw all of that out the window.