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Supply chains: Forging stronger links amid global disruption

Increasing digitisation is disrupting the supply chain sector but with the goal of putting an end to actual disruptions, says Jason Walsh

Access to data and, with it, the deployment of artificial intelligence has the potential to transform operations by predicting all manner of external events. Picture: Getty

Look around you. What do you see? It may seem prosaic but almost everything, from this article (whether you are reading it in print or on a digital device) to the chair you are sitting in, is only there because a vast range of components were collected, moved around, fashioned into something, and then moved along on their way until they arrived with you.

This is the complex business of supply chain, and whether in ...