# About

Equipping the manufacturing and supply chain community with tools and insights to navigate disruptions driven by emerging technologies, climate change, and geopolitical tensions, while tracking the trends and structural shifts that are reconfiguring global value chains.


**92%** of manufacturers are regionalizing their manufacturing footprint

**64%** of manufacturers perceive AI solutions as the key to driving supply chain improvements

**45%** of manufacturers highlight sustainability as one of the two most important drivers for supply chain reconfiguration


## The rethink

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 Predictability has been replaced by structural volatility, and the conditions that once enabled efficiency, stable institutions, reliable networks, and open trade, can now create risk and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.


### Knowledge products


## Country Readiness for Manufacturing and Supply Chains

The World Economic Forum’s Country Readiness Framework for Manufacturing and Supply Chains identifies identifies seven readiness factors driving private sector investment and shaping countries' attractiveness amidst the ongoing rewiring of global value chains such as infrastructure and skills.

[Discover more](https://www.weforum.org/publications/beyond-cost-country-readiness-for-the-future-of-manufacturing-and-supply-chains/)


### Supply Chain Imperatives

Emerging imperatives to redesign supply chains around orchestration, distributed scale and optionality to build structural agility and unlock growth under volatility.


### Industrial Policy Blueprint

An industrial policy blueprint to strengthen industrial readiness,  build the enabling environment where industries can thrive and attract investment in next-gen manufacturing.


### Manufacturing and Supply Readiness Chain Navigator

A data-driven tool to benchmark national readiness for manufacturing, supporting footprint and policy decisions as value chains rewire.


## Part of the Centre of Advanced Manufacturing and Supply Chains

The Centre for Advanced Manufacturing and Supply Chains accelerates responsible industry transformation by bringing together the world’s foremost multistakeholder manufacturing and supply chains community to exchange best practices, develop new insights and scale cross-industry collaborations.

[Discover more](https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-advanced-manufacturing-and-supply-chains/)


## Our timeline

Growing insights into how megatrends and shifts affecting global value chains and actionable strategies to navigate their reconfiguration for greater resilience, growth and sustainability.


## Timeline

*Chronological events and milestones*


## Manufacturing is booming in some nations. Here’s what they have in common

So how do countries build their manufacturing base and attract new companies? Firstly, infrastructure is key. Roads, ports and railways are critical for the smooth movement of goods. Today, though, infrastructure isn’t just about bricks and mortar. It also involves ‘intelligent infrastructure’ such as data centres and communication networks.


### Get involved today

Join us in shaping resilient and adaptable value chains for a sustainable future.

[Get involved](https://initiatives.weforum.org/api/communities/v1/public/initiatives/site/page-redirect?url=https://initiatives.weforum.org/navigating-global-value-chain-disruption/&page_id=3ae2124f-53e3-4596-b502-de1b5c6d42ab)