Supply chain focus shifts from efficiency to resilience

Strategies and financing need to be radically reassessed to achieve sustainability in a rapidly changing world.

Creating sustainable and resilient supply chains is perhaps the most urgent challenge faced by corporates today.

“Climate change is already impacting supply chains,” explains James Binns, global head of trade and working capital at Barclays corporate banking. “In China, the low water levels of the Yangtze river resulted in hydroelectric power shortages, which in turn had an impact on local factory production and global supply chains. In India, record temperatures resulted in an export ban on wheat, and in Europe we will all remember images of marooned transport barges on the Rhine.

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