Construction material shortage triggers delays, soaring prices. How long will it last?

But the demand is straining a supply chain that is trying to reboot after it was nearly shut down at the start of the pandemic. "It's not just one thing," said Rudi Leuschner, a professor of supply chain management at Rutgers Business School in Newark. "When you think about any product that will end up in a retail store or at a contractor, that product until it gets there changes through a number of hands," he said. "And at each point in that process there's a chance that it gets delayed, or there's a chance that it just gets stuck somewhere. And then all of these little things add up to bigger delays and bigger outages and so on."

Read the entire article

Previous
Previous

How Worried Should We Be About Supply Chain Problems?

Next
Next

Meet the Masters of Supply Chain Management