The business behind Sharpie markers, Yankee Candle and other consumer products cut its sales outlook for the coming months, highlighting how big disruptions in supply and demand over the past two years are continuing to ripple through supply chains.

Supply-chain snarls are persisting, with more than 2% of all global shipping capacity at a standstill outside Germany’s North Sea ports.

Apple is preparing to manufacture its new iPhone in India months earlier than it did previous models, because it wants to boost production outside China amid growing global tensions and supply chain disruptions in the country.

July saw another “outstanding” month for cargo volumes at the Port of Los Angeles and wait times were down, said port executive director Gene Seroka, while noting that exports had continued to decline for three years.  

Supply chain resiliency is the ability of an organization to avoid, absorb and recover from the business impact of disruptions through a risk-balanced approach to product, supply chain strategy and network design.

Apple has reportedly asked Taiwan-based suppliers to label their products as being produced in China, in an effort to avoid disruption from strict Chinese customs inspections resulting from the visit of the U.S. House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, to Taipei.

The people on the warehouse floor, the folks who pick and pack your orders, and the men and women who drive the trucks that make your deliveries all know the problems that are making your business less efficient than it could be. You should encourage them to tell you.

Ukraine’s first shipments of grain since being invaded by Russia are a harbinger of relief for squeezed global markets, but many challenges remain before the millions of tons of food stuck in the country can be released.