Analysis: Canadian supply delays come as a warning that future interruptions could be worse – Don Pittis (CBC News) / Oct 25 2021
Economic and security concerns prompt calls for increased Canadian supply chain resilience
Despite a growing income from his own business, Daryl Wier and his spouse have been trying and failing to spend their money on new kitchen appliances that now face a back order delay of many months.
Wier’s income and his inability to spend it may be connected. For Wier, who runs 49th Apparel in Sault Ste. Marie, an Ontario city of about 70,000 where Lake Superior meets Lake Huron, his business of making nightshirts and selling them by mail order has never been better.
“Should I really say my sales are up by 360 per cent?” Wier said over the phone last week, as if afraid of courting bad luck by being too boastful.
Within the discipline of supply chain management, Wier’s business, unlike those of appliance and automakers and many others, is considered “resilient.”
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