Pictures of empty supermarket shelves, and stories of supermarkets putting limits on items dominates the news as people stockpile due to Coronavirus.
Jan Godsell, Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Strategy at WMG, University of Warwick offers her expert comment on why it needs to stop.

Janet Godsell, Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Strategy at WMG at the University of Warwick, comments on the importance of commodity products like CO₂ and how the interplay between supply chains needs to be considered to keep products on shelves.

"Airbus was always likely to be the inward investor international firm most susceptible to Brexit." Professor Nigel Driffield, Professor of International Business at Warwick Business School, explores the implications of a no-deal Brexit for the Airbus supply chain.

Britain's largest supermarket Tesco has "seriously breached" a legally-binding code to protect grocery producers by prioritising its own finances over the fair treatment of its suppliers, a new report has found. Professor Janet Godsell, of WMG at the University of Warwick is available for expert comment.

The first issue to address is whether this is seeking to attract trade or foreign investment. The wording of the text is that they want Chinese companies to tender for certain parts of the infrastructure, which essentially suggests trade – ie importing sub-assemblies, components, even trains from China (or the lines themselves).