Often, more often than people might imagine, supply chain operations also hide their philanthropy. I recall once stumbling into a major branded food product operations center for its global supply chain and encountered negotiations with air transport to move excess to a then starving population in Africa. The operations center people just did not like waste, so they were arranging free transport by similarly minded others, and the like. Secrecy has many facets.

Sometimes laws can also benefit. For example, there are laws that make refurbing jet engines cheaper than buying new ones, to the effect that airlines are incentivised to keep engines in better repair by incentivising early repair. These are generally welcomed by the manufacturing supply chain in that industry because of the increased safety of air flight.

I wish we could dig out the good in the global supply chain systems that I have only seen in glimmers.