Mar 31, 2020 | Articles, Covid 19, Trends |
Until the Coronavirus began wreaking its havoc, global companies could run their supply chains on the assumption that disruptions would be rare and short-lived, and that products should be sourced, produced, and distributed at the cheapest locations to be found,... 
Mar 13, 2020 | Articles, Covid 19, News, Trends |
Known as the ‘ferrymen’ of Wuhan, thousands of motorbike riders would just months ago zigzag daily through the traffic clogging the streets of the central Chinese city delivering a smorgasbord of food varieties to residents. That was before the outbreak of what... 
Mar 12, 2020 | Articles, Covid 19, News, Sustainability - Environment |
When leading economists start talking about a drop in manufacturing comparable to the start of the 2007-2008 global financial crisis, you can be sure that the world’s leading industries are in for a torrid few months. The trigger for this alarming state of affairs was... 
Mar 11, 2020 | Articles, Covid 19, News, Trends |
After two months of almost complete shutdown as part of the Chinese authorities’ efforts to contain the Coronavirus epidemic, factories across China are gradually reopening, trucks are crawling back onto the road, and some ports are again operating at near-full... 
Mar 10, 2020 | Articles, Case Studies, Covid 19, Supply Chain |
Figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show that China is Australia’s largest trading partner by far, with two-way trade amounting to $194.6 billion (AUD), or 24.4 percent of the country’s total bilateral trade, in the fiscal year 2017-2018 (the latest... 
Mar 5, 2020 | Articles, Covid 19, News, Trends |
With the Coronavirus disease, COVID-19, daily infecting more and more people in China and many other parts of the world, economists and analysts are scrambling to predict its longer-term impact on global business in general and on supply chains in particular. ... 
