1. No matter how challenging and uncertain the future looks, supply chain leaders are striving to achieve delivery and deal with these interruptions. Sudden changes in demand, increased logistics costs, soaring fuel prices, and extended delivery time of parts and materials-these are the problems that we have been trying to deal with every day for the past few years. 

2. Many supply chain organizations have been so focused on managing the short-term performance of this month, this quarter and this year, instead of taking a long-term view. We may also be creating multiple meetings, processes and indicators to deal with different interruptions and disturbances with a crisis management mentality.

3. Now, with the global supply chain congestion and uncertainty temporarily eased, we all understand that similar new destructive black swan or gray rhinoceros events may come back at any time. Now is the time to stop, take a breath, reflect and make a strategy for the future. You need to develop a strategy to support agility, resilience and continuous improvement. Now it's time to stop fighting fires, step back and think of a higher peacekeeping and sustainable way to manage uncertainty and volatility.

4. Ask yourself.

-/1 What are your team's three expectations/contributions to achieving the company's goals? What are the three major challenges you are facing in your team at present? What are the three major areas that you must give priority to in the next two to three years?

-/2 What processes currently exist? What processes are missing? What are the strong skills of your team? What other necessary skills are missing? What skills do you have? Have you made full use of this? 

-/3 What processes do you need to develop and implement, stop or continue and improve? What abilities will you develop in yourself and your team? What training will you plan to do to improve these abilities? What requirements and feedback will you provide to IT department on the digital roadmap? 

5. Remember, this is not a sprint, this is a marathon. What brings you here doesn't necessarily bring you there. What makes supply chain organizations different is not their ability to deliver under all these destructive conditions, but their ability to maintain steady growth no matter what they face. Stop and catch your breath today … be prepared not only for the present, but also for the future.