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Global economy 2023: COVID-19 turned global supply chains upside down – 3 ways the pandemic forced companies to rethink and transform how they source their products

  • Written by Nada R. Sanders, Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management, Northeastern University
imageCompanies are remaking their supply chains to rely less on China and the massive container ships steaming across the oceans.AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton

This is the sixth and final installment in our series on where the global economy is heading in 2023. It follows recent articles on industrial action, inflation, energy, food and the cost of living.

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