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The Global Supply Chain What Happens When It Breaks

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The Global Supply Chain: What Happens When It Breaks?

One missing chip can stop a car factory. One blocked canal can disturb ports around the world. This documentary follows a product through mines, factories, ships, warehouses and shops to explain how global supply chains create abundance, why disruption spreads, and what real resilience costs.

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Chapters

  1. The box that contains the world
  2. How one product becomes global
  3. The efficiency trap
  4. When the canal stopped
  5. The pandemic shock
  6. The chip that stopped the factory
  7. How the shock reaches your wallet
  8. Why visibility fails
  9. Resilience without retreat
  10. The supply chain of the future

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