Most of us hoped the Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic would be firmly in the rearview mirror by the end of 2021.
But unfortunately, the virus continues to cause issues across procurement, logistics, and transportation.
For the moment, however, the supply chain has at least begun to show signs of recovery as bottlenecks begin to ease and production in Asia slowly returns to normal.
However, recovery won’t happen overnight. As a result, business leaders must continue planning for pandemic-related disruptions in the near term.
This article will discuss some of the COVID-19 issues that manufacturers, retailers, service providers, and other supply chain stakeholders can expect to contend with for the rest of 2021 and into 2022.
It remains challenging to predict what will happen with COVID-19 in the future. Though the logistics industry can expect to see relief from some pandemic threats starting early in 2022, some of those complications will likely drag on into 2023 or longer.
Fortunately, two years of experience responding to COVID-19 has given experts a better understanding of how the virus behaves and how it can impact the global supply chain.
Here are some problems that industry players can expect to linger:
While these concerns will plague logistics operators throughout 2022 to some degree, the outlook for the supply chain still looks better than it has since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020.
Moreover, as vaccination rates keep rising and control measures stay in place, it has finally become possible to imagine what a post-pandemic supply chain might look like.
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