What are the '7 deadly supply chain challenges' the report describes?

The report sets out seven essential challenges that manufacturers and retailers need to address to protect their supply chains against future disruption, along with practical tips for tackling each one. While the specific list sits within the report itself, the focus throughout is on resetting trading relationships and risk strategy so that businesses are better prepared for unpredictable, high impact events in future.

How can digitalisation help simplify supply chain auditing?

Digitalisation helps simplify supply chain auditing by replacing scattered paper and manual records with consistent, traceable digital data that is easier to check and report on. The report points to this as one of the ways brands and retailers are improving cost efficiency, since accurate, accessible data reduces the time and resource needed to audit trading relationships and identify where processes can be tightened.

Why should companies review their supply chain risk strategy after a major disruption?

Reviewing risk strategy after a major disruption helps companies spot the weaknesses that a crisis exposed and put safeguards in place before the next one arrives. The report frames this as shoring up protection against future black swan events, encouraging manufacturers and retailers to rethink operations and reset supply chain relationships rather than simply returning to how things worked before.

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After Covid: The 7 deadly supply chain challenges

What are the main challenges facing the supply chain after Covid with practical tips on ways to strengthen against future ‘black swan’ events

Transalis2 June 2020Updated 23 September 2026

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What does the After Covid supply chain report from Transalis cover?

This report from Transalis identifies seven essential supply chain challenges that companies faced as they reviewed their risk strategies after the disruption of Covid, with practical tips for manufacturers and retailers on how to mitigate them. It also looks at how digitalisation is helping businesses simplify auditing and improve cost efficiency, and how re-gearing trading relationships can help companies recover faster and reduce future vulnerability.

As companies learn to navigate the ‘new normal’, many will be reviewing their risk strategy to shore up and protect against future ‘black swan’ events.

This report identifies 7 essential challenges with practical tips that manufacturers and retailers can take to help mitigate supply chain risks.

Find out how smart companies are rethinking their operations and resetting their supply chain relationships.Discover how many brands and retailers are introducing digitalisation in a bid to simplify auditing and optimise cost-efficiency.Pinpoint the 7 Deadly Supply Chain Challenges that are critical to success - with tips on how firms can protect themselves and their customers.Look at ways companies need to re-gear the way trading relationships work to recover from Covid faster and minimise future vulnerability.

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What are the '7 deadly supply chain challenges' the report describes?: The report sets out seven essential challenges that manufacturers and retailers need to address to protect their supply chains against future disruption, along with practical tips for tackling each one. While the specific list sits within the report itself, the focus throughout is on resetting trading relationships and risk strategy so that businesses are better prepared for unpredictable, high impact events in future.
How can digitalisation help simplify supply chain auditing?: Digitalisation helps simplify supply chain auditing by replacing scattered paper and manual records with consistent, traceable digital data that is easier to check and report on. The report points to this as one of the ways brands and retailers are improving cost efficiency, since accurate, accessible data reduces the time and resource needed to audit trading relationships and identify where processes can be tightened.
Why should companies review their supply chain risk strategy after a major disruption?: Reviewing risk strategy after a major disruption helps companies spot the weaknesses that a crisis exposed and put safeguards in place before the next one arrives. The report frames this as shoring up protection against future black swan events, encouraging manufacturers and retailers to rethink operations and reset supply chain relationships rather than simply returning to how things worked before.

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