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This week we talk about disruption in the beer supply chain, a company that defrauded investors appointing a new CEO, and women in the supply chain workforce.

But before all that, let us bring to your attention a call by the World Economic Forum for a living supply chain to ensure food safety. Since wars, COVID-19 and climate have begun to overwhelm our fragile food supply chain, the WEF is trying to prioritize fixing it as one of their top global agendas.

The main goal is to add time to the supply chain equation and adopt industry-wide initiatives that can help eliminate the current risks in the system. Read more about it by clicking the link here. In an apt conclusion of their agenda, they said, “The old food supply chain is dead. It's time to prove the world's most visible issue is also the most solvable. It's time to build the living supply chain together.”

Now, onto the neeewwsss!!!

Week's Top Stories 🗞️

Will the madness ever stop?! 🍺
Do you trust a company riddled with fraud just because they have a new CEO? NOPE. 🙅🏻
#breakthebias👩🏻👷🏻

🍺Will the madness ever stop?!

The 20s’ has, by most accounts, been a raging dumpster fire. We’ve dealt with COVID and toilet paper shortages. Supply chain congestion and empty shelves. Rising inflation and astronomical gas prices. We’ve dealt with it all, more or less in stride.

Now, perhaps one of the greatest carbonated beverages ever created, loved around the globe, has come under threat.

Beer. The beer supply chain is now at risk of being destabilized.

“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy,” -NOT Benjamin Franklin

Perhaps the most ridiculous part of this particular disaster is that part of the problem is due to a CO2 shortage. Yeah, you read that right. Carbon dioxide, the thing that we’re trying to eliminate around the world, is part of the reason why the global beer supply might be under pressure.

Learn more about the potential beer shortage here.

Do you trust a company riddled with fraud just because they have a new CEO? NOPE. 🙅🏻

Is a new CEO enough to reestablish trust in a company that has defrauded investors? Electric truck manufacturer Nikola is hoping so.

In 2020 Trevor Milton, the CEO of Nikola was forced to resign from his post (and has since been charged with three counts of criminal fraud by a federal grand jury) and was replaced by Mark Russel as acting CEO.

With Russel about to retire, the next heir to the electric throne is Michael Lohscheller, who has served as CEO for other automakers with, admittedly, a fairly impressive track record.

However, will this new CEO be enough to help the company crawl its way from the shadows of doubt and deceit? Perhaps time will tell.

#breakthebias

Gender bias has long plagued many industries but few more so than the supply chain and transportation industry. Whether at sea or in the C-suite, there is a disparate imbalance between men and women.

Women account for only 15% of executive-level roles in the supply chain workforce – Gartner
Women represent only 1.2% percent of the global seafarer workforce – IMO/BIMCO

There have been enough studies to show that women are just as capable (if not more so) of running a successful supply chain. Throughout the month of August, Shipping and Freight Resource will be offering free knowledge sessions for women looking to get a better understanding of the industry or improve their knowledge base to advance their careers in the supply chain industry.

Learn more about the free sessions here!

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