“Our sourcing teams and our logistics teams put in long hours, and really worked with out key suppliers,” Lundahl says. Scarcities of packaging materials haven’t hurt the company’s bottom line, though its employees have had to work harder to limit the impact.
“(That) hasn’t directly impacted customers, but it impacts the efficiency of the operations.” “We’re able to put other products down the packaging line while we wait for the packaging we ran out of,” says Theresa Lundahl, senior vice president of global supply chain at CooperVision. The resulting shortages have sometimes forced CooperVision to switch gears, packaging another product in place of the one it originally planned to prepare for sale. “Paper mills have not been able to keep up with demand.” “During the pandemic, much more online shopping occurred, which drove up the demand globally for cardboard significantly,” says Mike Lanzone, the firm’s global sourcing manager. In some cases, these measures have cost them profits.ĬooperVision, a major producer of contact lenses, at times has been unable to find the paperboard it uses to package some of its products for sale.
Faced with shortages of the parts and supplies they need, local businesses and farms have had to stockpile raw materials and supplies, find substitutes for important electrical components, and alter their operations.
ONTIME SUPPLIES DRIVERS
ports, increased demand for consumer goods, too few truck drivers and other conditions have contributed to the problem. “Across the board, we have seen supply shortages, increased lead times and price inflation,” says Derek Darling, president of the Sidco Filter Co., which makes industrial filter elements and housings.īottlenecks at U.S. The result has been shortages of needed parts and materials and higher costs for manufacturers, construction companies, farmers and other businesses in the Rochester region. Two and a half years after COVID-19 was declared a global health emergency, the pandemic continues to disrupt worldwide supply chains.
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