That supply chains even now are in a messy state is not surprising to the CRE industry. Just look at construction backlogs.

The problem is large and beyond what any one company can do by itself (although many could vastly improve their own supply chains with software and cooperation with vendors to provide transparency as well as a change in supply chain management strategy). In March, the White House announced an initiative called Freight Logistics Optimization Works, or FLOW, "an information sharing initiative to pilot key freight information exchange between parts of the goods movement supply chain." 

Key stakeholders "including private businesses, warehousing, and logistics companies, ports, and more" were to partner with the administration "to develop a proof-of-concept information exchange to ease supply chain congestion, speed up the movement of goods, and ultimately cut costs for American consumers."