The COVID-19 pandemic has radically challenged project execution strategy to integrate supply chain, procurement and logistics during the planning process to achieve real-time visibility across the end-to-end supply chain and improve agility, productivity and stakeholder management. Hence, “Managing Supply Chain Risks and Disruption in Capital Projects” – discussed in this year’s Africa Construction Trends (ACT) Report – has become more important now than ever to re-think the entire project value chain from a supply chain perspective. 

At its core, the annual Africa Construction Trends Report tracks infrastructure and capital projects (I&CP) activity in Africa. The report contains continental, regional and sectoral trends and includes projects >US$50m in value that have broken ground by 1 June each year. This report also shows who owns, who funds and who builds projects. The analysis is complemented by an economic context section, focusing on Africa’s economic outlook.

This year’s thematic section is focused on managing supply chain risk and disruption in capital projects – insights based on project owners’ perspectives on their current COVID-19 supply chain transformation strategies and risk mitigation plans across the capital projects lifecycle.

The increased awareness of monitoring information flow, creating visibility of supply chain for data- driven decision making and analysing the trends between globalisation and regionalisation 

is compelling businesses to pursue innovative ways to leverage supply chain integration with their capital project team to achieve efficiency in project execution and create a competitive advantage.