Knut Alicke

May 23, 2023 | supplychainquarterly.com | Knut Alicke |Katharina Hauck |Kai Hoberg |Jürgen Rachor

Today’s supply chains have faced a perfect storm of disruptions over the past three years from a global pandemic to the blockage of the Suez Canal, from port congestion to the invasion of Ukraine—to mention only a few. This new level of disruption and urgency requires managers to build robust and agile supply chain planning processes in order to appropriately respond to the massive fluctuations in supply and demand.

Feb 3, 2023 | mckinsey.com | Knut Alicke

February 3, 2023Excerpted from From Source to Sold, with permission from the authorsUsually, the only kind of attention supply chain gets is negative. If an order isn’t manufactured, shipped, or delivered on time, supply chain is where the fingers start pointing. But in 2020, as COVID-19 took hold around the world, the often-invisible work of supply chain became a matter of both intense public interest and boardroom gratitude.