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In today’s age, panic over shortages can spread like wildfire. Social media and internet misinformation can lead to masses of people getting scared over rumors of product shortages, quickly leading to upheavals.
There were toilet paper shortages during the beginning of COVID-19 and gas shortages just last week thanks to the Colonial Pipeline shutdown, but when do shortages take the big leap into becoming crises?
On this episode of Transmission, Sebastian Blanco and Grace Sharkey explore how shortages play out in the logistics world and how shortages can balloon into crises.
They welcome Dan Hearsch, managing director at AlixPartners, to talk about the continuing shortage of semiconductor chips. Hearsch breaks down how the shortage has played into stress on all things from gaming systems to new trucks and how the auto industry is fighting to keep the crisis at bay.
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