Over the past two years, labour restrictions, climate change and violent conflict have contributed to the record-breaking high prices of vegetable oil around the world.
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It’s surprisingly difficult for most to make a profit.
The closure of a factory in Michigan is the incident that put new parents across the US on edge, but the real causes for the shortage of baby formula are many years in the making.
An infant nutrition expert explains what is behind the current formula shortage and what can be done to support hard-pressed parents.
Governments may be forced to put back deadlines to shift away from petrol and diesel.
Russia’s invasion isn’t only devastating the lives of ordinary Ukrainians but is also disrupting global supply chains and increasing poverty around the world.
For the NHS to achieve net zero, it needs to sort out its supply chains and prioritise community health.
Comprised mostly of Black soldiers, the Red Ball Express transported supplies day and night and is given credit for providing a strategic advantage over the Nazi military.
It’s easy to blame COVID. But Australia has suffered medicine shortages for years. The pandemic has only highlighted the problem. Here’s what we could do to better avoid shortages in the first place.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has triggered an unprecedented outpouring of humanitarian and military aid. Protecting those supply chains is essential for delivering materiel to the frontlines.
The Fed officially began its biggest inflation fight in four decades.
Electric vehicle batteries, wind turbine generators and hydrogen fuel cells are among technologies likely to be affected by the conflict.
Your T-shirt may have travelled one-and-a-half times round the world to reach you.
In the short term, the war is causing energy prices to soar and prompting fears of famine in some countries. In the long term, it could remake the modern global supply chain.
A new study finds climate change will make it hard to guarantee the supply of food.
Disruption at each stage of supply chain – production, transportation and distribution – is forcing New Zealand to ‘import’ more inflation. There will be no quick fix in 2022.
Research suggests that two factors are most important when making decisions on how businesses should respond to the U.S.-China trade war: location and supply chain dependence, and technology.
Global supply chains and energy prices are not solely to blame for a tough year ahead.
When entire sectors shut down, the demand for energy plummets.
Homegrown tomatoes and corn in Alaska? Climate change could make it possible in the 2030s and ‘40s – a rare silver lining for this fast-warming state.
Top contributors
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Associate Dean - School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University
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Professor and Eugene M. Isenberg Chair in Integrative Studies, UMass Amherst
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Deputy Director of the HUMLOG (Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management Research) Institute, Hanken School of Economics
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Director of the Digital Health Enterprise Zone (DHEZ), University of Bradford, Professor of Health Service Operations, University of Bradford
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Associate Professor of Operations & Project Management, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor in Sustainable Production and Consumption, Anglia Ruskin University
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Senior Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management, Anglia Ruskin University
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Lecturer in Logistics, Technological University Dublin
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Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management, Northeastern University
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Professor of Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Heriot-Watt University
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Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management, City, University of London
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Associate Professor, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Supply Chain & Analytics, University of Missouri-St. Louis
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Bernard T. Ferrari Professor of Business, Johns Hopkins University
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Professor of Accounting, University of Portsmouth
