ANALYSIS: From War to Weather—2023’s Top Supply-Chain Disruptors

Supply chains, which have been tested to their limits in the last few years, will need to continue to increase their flexibility in 2023.

Covid-19 took us by surprise in 2020. Overnight, offices and businesses were shuttered, and supply lines collapsed. We adapted by working from home, limiting socialization, and lowering expectations on the resiliency and flexibility of “just-in-time” supply chains.

But the pandemic is slowly fading in the rearview mirror as a cause of supply-chain disruptions, and other factors that surfaced this year are likely to take its place in 2023. These include war, extreme weather, the threat of ...