From the Ted Talk by Dustin Burke: How to fix broken supply chains
Unscramble the Blue Letters
But today's supply-chain challenges are no joke. Those pobrmles are real, but they're problems that we've faced, and even solved, in the past. A supply chain is the long and often complicated journey that any item takes before it winds up in your home. Raw materials are mined or gorwn and sold to various suppliers. Those srppulies sell them to manufacturers, who transform those raw materials into finished goods. And those finished goods are moved around the world by distributors and creraris, who, in turn, sell them to retailers, who sell those to consumers as a fnial step. Many spuply chains are simple, like when you buy setierrrabws at a local farmers market. But some are almost infinitely complex.
Open Cloze
But today's supply-chain challenges are no joke. Those ________ are real, but they're problems that we've faced, and even solved, in the past. A supply chain is the long and often complicated journey that any item takes before it winds up in your home. Raw materials are mined or _____ and sold to various suppliers. Those _________ sell them to manufacturers, who transform those raw materials into finished goods. And those finished goods are moved around the world by distributors and ________, who, in turn, sell them to retailers, who sell those to consumers as a _____ step. Many ______ chains are simple, like when you buy ____________ at a local farmers market. But some are almost infinitely complex.
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Original Text
But today's supply-chain challenges are no joke. Those problems are real, but they're problems that we've faced, and even solved, in the past. A supply chain is the long and often complicated journey that any item takes before it winds up in your home. Raw materials are mined or grown and sold to various suppliers. Those suppliers sell them to manufacturers, who transform those raw materials into finished goods. And those finished goods are moved around the world by distributors and carriers, who, in turn, sell them to retailers, who sell those to consumers as a final step. Many supply chains are simple, like when you buy strawberries at a local farmers market. But some are almost infinitely complex.