The overlooked factor that’s keeping supply chains screwy

There is no single thing to blame for global supply chain issues. The COVID-19 pandemic, labor shortages, and lack of shipping materials are a few challenges that have been slowing products and services from supplier to customer over the past two years. But the far more serious threat from climate change deserves more attention than it's been given, according to scholars and experts.

There is no single thing to blame for global supply chain issues. The COVID-19 pandemic, labor shortages, and lack of shipping materials are a few challenges that have been slowing products and services from supplier to customer over the past two years. But the far more serious threat from climate change deserves more attention than it's been given, according to scholars and experts.

In this story published March 25, 2022, in Slate:

[Long-term] strategy and logistics are opposite things. Logisticians are always trying to execute the strategy but not necessarily develop it. They’re trying to figure out how to make something happen now, and climate change is a long-term problem.

– Dale Rogers, professor of supply chain management and ON Semiconductor Professor of Business