Supply chain and procurement professionals are feeling an unwelcome degree of uncertainty—in the form of new regulatory frameworks, currency fluctuations, free trade agreements, labor concerns, and much more—following Britain’s planned exit from the European Union. Still, even amid all that uncertainty lingers a dose of cautious optimism.
“A common misconception is that the U.K. is a nation in crisis, which is absolutely rubbish,” Sean Curly, a member of the European leadership team of the APICS Supply Chain Council, said during a recent webinar on Brexit. The U.K. is facing challenging circumstances, he said, but not a crisis.
