Supply chain disruptions are now constant, not occasional. Pandemics, geopolitical tensions, and natural disasters anywhere ripple globally fast. Companies need to build ongoing preparedness and resilience instead of treating crises as rare events.
I think one of the big trends is that the challenges that we're seeing to supply chain, they aren't going to end, and that, that needs to become something that we're just used to— intermittent crises, that there's always going to be something going on. And that's due to the fact that since we are part of a global economy now, that we realize more acutely, I think, that impacts in the other parts of the world affect us both as businesses but also as consumers. And so whether it's due to, say, another illness or pandemic or some sort of a global political issue that's going on, or even just some sort of natural disaster, that those are going to be impacts that we're going to feel here. And that's something that we need to be prepared, prepared to deal with and to mitigate.
