
Preparing for unexpected peaks: building resilience into your supply chain
While seasonal surges and predictable calendar events significantly influence both capacity and demand, the most disruptive periods are increasingly coming from beyond the calendar: geopolitical tensions, conflict, port closures, and labour strikes, all of which cause disruption to supply chains. Regardless of the cause of these unexpected logistics peaks, the challenge becomes adapting the supply chain and building in the resilience and agility needed to keep goods moving.