Global supply chains are at a turning point. The model built for scale, lowest cost, and seamless globalization is giving way to a tougher reality defined by fragmentation, systemic constraints, and frequent disruption.
Predictability has been replaced by structural volatility, and the conditions that once enabled efficiency, stable institutions, reliable networks, and open trade, can now create risk and exposure.
With geopolitical tensions rising, industrial policy accelerating, and growth becoming more uneven, companies and governments need to redesign production footprints and strengthen the ecosystems that make supply chains competitive, resilient, and trusted.