The COVID-19 pandemic has been raging since March this year. It has caused disruptions in several sectors, but none more so than the manufacturing industry. Supply chain disruptions, closure of factories—sometimes half a world away, and chaos in the sales channels are just some of the problems very few in this sector were prepared for. Digital advancements over the past five to ten years have helped to soften the blow the pandemic has dealt, but by and large, much of the global manufacturing sector was knocked out in a pretty serious way in 2020.
