Much attention has been paid to the ability of individual companies and their supply chains to withstand disruptive events. But what makes an entire country resilient?

COVID-19 has thrown the global economy into turmoil, interrupting normal operations everywhere, wreaking havoc on supply chains, and causing a severe drop in global trade. Asia, of course, is not immune.

If we didn’t think supply-chain risk management was all-important before, we know it now.

These are perilous times for all supply-chain partners, but especially for smaller suppliers who lack ready access to working capital, and are existing on extremely thin margins in a severe economic downturn.

Among the many “gifts” of the coronavirus pandemic is a hard lesson about the fragility of food supply chains.

Memo to shippers: Do you know where your container is?