COVID, shipping and haulage issues, semiconductor shortages, changing workforce demographics, and Brexit are all hitting today's complex global supply chain, Fleur Doidge reports.
With supply chain disruption ongoing in a multitude of sectors, exacerbated by multiple factors from COVID to workforce demographics, the question has to be asked: how can manufacturing mitigate similar problems in future? Jan Burian, Research Director at IDC Manufacturing Insights, says building in alternative options in defined, precise manufacturing is tricky. “As a first…
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