The supply-chain crisis: what's going on?

The supply-chain crisis: what's going on? Chaos in global supply chains is affecting the availability of everything from milkshakes to microchips How serious is the problem? In 2021, UK consumers have seen gaps on supermarket shelves, queues at petrol pumps, and shortages of goods from cars, fridges and construction materials to toys and McDonald's milkshakes. Shortages and delivery delays are now a major problem across much of the world. Global supply chains which have run smoothly for decades have suddenly been thrown out by a number of connected systemic issues: a global shortage of semiconductor chips; an energy-supply crisis; disruptions…