Supply-chain risk has been rising up the boardroom agenda in recent years, with trade wars driving moves to ‘reshore’ production and the development of digital technologies such as AI enabling huge efficiency gains through process optimisation.

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought many of these challenges even more to the fore and led companies to reconsider their approach to supply chain management. Rafique Bachour, Tim Wilkins and Theresa Ehlen discuss these challenges in particular around sustainability and digitisation.