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Agility comes to the fore

MARCUS CARMONT is executive director of consultancy TM Insight

One thing that we’ve learned from Covid-19 is that we don’t know what the future holds. Supply chains across Australia are having to play it day-to-day according to unpredictable consumer behaviours that are threatening to unhinge end-to-end operations.

The lockdowns have led to buying frenzies that have seen our relative consumption of household products double the actual population in Australia.

During the first lockdown,

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