Michael UngarCEO of the Industry 4.0 Club

Supply Chain Trends: Intermittent Crises Ahead

9 Jul 2026 · 0 min

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In this brief segment, the speaker highlights a major emerging trend in supply chain management: the challenges facing supply chains are unlikely to disappear and will instead become a persistent backdrop of intermittent crises. This ongoing volatility is attributed to the deep integration of economies worldwide, where disruptions in one region quickly ripple through to affect both businesses and consumers elsewhere. The speaker urges that stakeholders should adapt to this new normal of continual, though fluctuating, supply‑chain pressures.

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.