Comment / Supply chain radar: The cost of doing business in a 'post-Covid' world

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From stocks of manufactured equipment waiting to be delivered to business travel, it’s an expensive time to be operating a business. 

Ready – when you are.

“So, how’s your business going?” I asked the owner of one of Australia’s largest manufacturers of line haul trailers.

“The last quarter has been quite tough,” he said. Apart from ever increasing costs in raw materials (steel, aluminium) and finding workers, who are either quarantining at home with either Covid or the winter flu in Australia, there ...