1、INDEPENDEN T P U B L I C AT I O N BYRACONTEUR.NET01/05/2022#0802Going beyond ESG to create sustainable supply have a limited supply,”Food says.“Were stuck in a world that is struggling to catch up.Until we create the capacity to do that,further black-swan levels of supply chain disrup-tion are inevi

2、table.”He predicts that we are likely to see such problems for years to come,because of the interconnectedness of the world and its many moving parts.Are there any other factors causing the bottlenecks that were seeing in our day-to-day lives as consumers?Whats behind the increases in lead times for

3、 the deliv-ery of goods and the reductions in the range of products that shops are stocking?Its not only black-swan events that have restricted the flow of containers around the globe.Demand also interacts with supply in a way that can make a meaning-ful difference,as Mark Johnson,professor of opera

4、tions management at Warwick Business School,explains.“Disruption is a regular occurrence in supply chains,but the recent challenge has been that demand has increased sig-nificantly,”he says.“Normally,supply chains rebound from disruption when demand is relatively stable.That has not been the case re

5、cently.”Although inflationary pressures could change that,demand hasnt slowed for the past two years at least.Rather,it has shif-ted:the same money wed have spent in the high street we are now spending online.Fixing the situation will be difficult.There is a fundamental imbalance and A bevy of black

6、 swans:how to endure the epochof disruptionHas building resilience into supply chains ever been more challenging?lack-swan events are meant to come about rarely.We often talk of them as once-in-a-generation occurrences that batter the global econ-omy and alter how the world works.But theyre often mo