How bad the 2008 recession for those working in supply chain management?

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I think that was the first major brush most people had with supply chain problems, actually. When our job is done well nobody thinks about it; when something goes haywire, such as the economic crisis of 2008-9 (or the one we're in now), all of a sudden "supply chain management" is in everybody's vocabulary

It was a difficult time to be in this industry, but honestly it was nothing like the difficulties we're facing currently. It seems to have become in vogue to blame things on "problems with the supply chain," at least in the USA that's how it is. People blamed everything on Coronavirus for the last two year; now it's supply chain problems; next, who knows? I think we're being blamed for things directly now, and in 2008 it was just in general.

From what I have read, it wasn't the same sort of crisis because people didn't insinuate that logistics were behind a lot of the problems. Right now we're kind of in the spotlight because CEOs and even gov't officials can just say "shipping" and people accept it as being the reason for items not making it to the shelves in grocery or department stores. It's just become a really convenient answer because everyone is feeling the pressure of logistics-related problems right now

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