Phillipe Moreau had to get creative to keep Temahome’s production lines whirring after shortages of timber, resin and steel left half of his furniture maker’s 600-item catalogue out of stock earlier this year.
“We played around,” said the chief executive of the French maker of wooden tables, shelves and TV stands. “If black panels weren’t available, we switched to oak or white ones.”
Across the world, manufacturers of everything from cupboards to cars or computers are still grappling with a logistics crunch that has disrupted supplies of essential inputs, threatening the post-pandemic economic rebound and boosting inflation.
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