Supply Chains in Crisis

U.S., European Firms Rethink China Investment After Lockdowns

May 18, 2022

U.S. and European businesses are reconsidering their investments in China after the lockdown in Shanghai and restrictions in other cities caused major disruption to their operations.

Fewer Nuggets, Smaller Salads: Shrinkflation Hits U.S. Restaurants

May 17, 2022

Bloomberg

America’s restaurants are in the same boat as the rest of the country, battling the soaring food and fuel costs that recently helped send U.S. inflation to a 40-year high.

FDA Announces Steps to Help Boost Baby-Formula Supply

May 17, 2022

Bloomberg

Abbott Laboratories reached a pact with U.S. authorities that would allow it to begin making baby formula again at a troubled plant in Michigan, a move that could help ease a supply shortfall that has rattled many parents.

How the Autonomous Supply Chain Is Bringing New Efficiencies to Retail Logistics

May 17, 2022

Syed Rahim, SCB Contributor

Current business scenarios are proving that companies that plan for both best- and worst-case circumstances are the real winners.

From Sneakers to Teslas, China Lockdowns Upend Global Supply Chains

May 16, 2022

Bloomberg

Here’s a breakdown of how the situation in China is intensifying global supply chain chaos.

Biden Under Fire for FDA’s Delay in Fixing Baby Formula Shortage

May 12, 2022

Bloomberg

The White House raced Thursday to show it’s trying to ease a national baby formula shortage, as Republicans showered criticism on President Biden for a crisis that has left frantic parents scouring store shelves to feed their children.

Coronavirus: Supply-Chain Disruption Looks Like Natural Disasters

Tesla and Sony’s Problems Show Shanghai’s Big Restart is Faltering

May 12, 2022

Bloomberg

The official line coming out of Covid-hit Shanghai is that business is returning to usual despite the ongoing lockdown, yet hundreds of manufacturers in the city aren’t operating at anywhere near to full capacity, if they’re up and running again at all.