David is the Global Vice President, Avnet United and Avnet Velocity at Avnet.
If business leaders needed to be reminded about the importance of preparing or updating crisis management plans, the headlines about the stranded mega container ship in the Suez Canal should be enough to make the plans a top priority.
Having visibility into every end of your supply chain can help to ensure transparency and agility when unexpected disruptions do occur. This—in addition to lessons recently learned about increased product demand, carrier delays and airplane shortages from the early days of the pandemic—will benefit all shippers at a time like this.