Out of Stock: Supply Chain Crisis
The world has grown accustomed to stores filled with packed shelves, gasoline available at every station and online purchases arriving on time. However, the pandemic has impacted every step of the supply chain, from manufacturing to shipping worldwide to transporting within a country and even to stocking shelves. This limited series explores the complex shipping system at its best and how it has broken down, leaving goods stranded at docks and consumers panic shopping before holiday shortages ruin the upcoming season.
- 2021-2022
- 1 season
- Discovery Channel
- Documentary
- TV-PG
The world has grown accustomed to stores filled with packed shelves, gasoline available at every station and online purchases arriving on time. However, the pandemic has impacted every step of the supply chain, from manufacturing to shipping worldwide to transporting within a country and even to stocking shelves. This limited series explores the complex shipping system at its best and how it has broken down, leaving goods stranded at docks and consumers panic shopping before holiday shortages ruin the upcoming season.
Season 1 Episode Guide
3 Episodes 2021 - 2022
Episode 1
Manufacturing Mayhem
Sat, Dec 18, 2021 42 mins
The holidays are a gigantic commercial event creating a dramatic increase in demand for goods, but as a result of the COVID pandemic, the season of shopping is facing catastrophe as major disruptions to the supply chain have sparked a global crisis.
Episode 2
Panic at the Supermarket
Sat, Dec 18, 2021 42 mins
The food supply chain is a complex and vital web that links producers, distributors, and consumers, but as a result of the COVID pandemic, vital shipping connections have been disrupted causing catastrophic food shortages for the first time in generations.
Episode 3
Fuel of Global Disaster
42 mins
Fuel is the unseen power that drives the economy and everything that's manufactured and transported worldwide, and as a result of the COVID pandemic, frailties have been exposed in the critical fuel supply chain that could result in global catastrophe.
