Companies are urged to remember that no supply chain exists in isolation. Many supply chains are integrated and a disruption at one point could have knock-on effects for other companies.

Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells.

It all depends on whether [companies] view supply chain as a strategic variable or an execution variable.

No matter how the geopolitical crisis deteriorates, we are not going to see supply disruption that will last for a substantial period of time. China still supplies 60 percent of its oil needs.

The global food supply chain is a multitrillion-dollar industry. That's the market we're thinking about disrupting.

If any supply disruption occurs again we can make a speedy decision,