Top ten food & drink shortages – from booze to baby milk
With news McDonalds hasn’t enough tomatoes for its burgers, we look at some eye-catching supply chain problems to have affected the food & drinks sector.
People moves: Supply chain & procurement appointments
scoutbee unveils new chief technology officer; supply chain firm Prological Consulting hires bid boss; procurement chief joins Clayton, Dublier & Rice.
Shipping profits for 2021 ‘absurd’ says Sea Intelligence
Global shipping lines made an astonishing operating profit of over US$110bn in 2021, according to analysis by Sea-Intelligence, a leading provider of research and analysis for the global supply chain industry.
Supply fears ease as Shanghai Port stays open in lockdown
The Port of Shanghai – one of the world’s largest – is continuing operation, despite a staggered citywide lockdown imposed in China, easing fears that a port shutdown would see widespread and prolonged supply chain disruption.
Logistics round-up: US supply boost, new hub for Amazon
Biden makes it easier to fund supply-infrastructure programmes; Amazon in Turkey growth; Walmart’s Canada move; supply price fixing body is launched
Ukraine & supply chain: Energy, food oils, microprocessors
US pledges to ramp-up liquefied natural gas imports to EU; Poland cuts energy imports from Russia; sunflower oil shortage fuels palm oil ESG concerns.
Supply chains need structured data to thrive, says Slync
Corey Bertsch, VP Solutions Management at logistics AI specialist, Slync.io, on why structured and contextualised data is what modern supply chains require.
Supply Chain Digital Show – Pactum CEO on AI negotiations
Pactum is an at-scale AI solution for autonomous supplier negotiations, and its CEO Martin Rand tells Supply Chain Digital Show it’s changing procurement.
