Unions, maritime shipping interests and other supply chain businesses have formed a new trade group in the USA to push for more domestic infrastructure investment to safeguard the supply chain.
“We are bringing the links of the supply chain together,” said Josh Wood, CEO of the Supply Chain Council. “We will be championing legislation to strengthen supply chain resiliency and jobs.”
He said that before Covid, supply chain segments were most often viewed independently, and the need to focus on interconnectedness of freight segments has continued to increased with the supply chain experiencing major obstacles.
The recent CrowdStrike IT outage shows the impact of supply chain interconnectivity, with air freight in some cases expected to take weeks to recover.