The biggest supply chain stories of 2022
After nearly three years in a post-pandemic environment, supply chains remain at the forefront of many conversations. As shortages, shipping delays and other disruptions continue to plague industries, taking a look back at some of 2022’s noteworthy moments could provide helpful insight.
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Chance that container ship arrives on time is still a toin coss
Sea-Intelligence’s “Global Liner Performance” report tracks reliability across 34 trade lanes covered by over 60 container lines.
Sea-Intelligence found that 56.6% of services arrived on time in November — the highest reliability percentage since August 2020. It’s a big improvement from January, when reliability cratered at just 30.4%. Yet the on-time rate is still just above a coin toss and remains well below the 2018-2019 average of 74%.
Simplifying supply chain software & total cost of ownership
As supply chain software evolved and businesses increasingly outsourced solutions, the total cost of ownership shifted, alleviating not only the cost of hardware, software, and departmental headcount, but also some of the sunk costs already embedded in the enterprise, like the facilities, networks, security, administration, shared services, and so on. And yet, the accrual of systems and outsourced solutions found their own complexities and cost inefficiencies.