# Future-Proofing Global Value Chains

Explore how companies and governments can strengthen supply chain resilience and manufacturing readiness in a more volatile global environment shaped by technology shifts, climate impacts and geopolitical change.

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## We help manufacturing companies and governments navigate value chain rewiring and make decisions that hold up under structural volatility

Global value chains are reconfiguring driven by intersecting pressures such as geopolitical fragmentation, accelerating technology change and more frequent climate disruption. These megatrends are reshaping how leaders think about investment, competitiveness and risk, and raising expectations for transparency, data integrity and trust across supply networks.The Centre for Advanced Manufacturing and Supply Chains, in collaboration with Kearney, is developing shared frameworks and tools to continuously navigate disruptions and understand trends and longer-term shifts that are shaping global value chains and triggering their reconfiguration.

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## Key focus areas

Translating insights into practical playbooks and public–private pathways that strengthen resilience and drive growth.


### Operating outlooks

Using outlook-based perspectives understand how different global conditions reshape supply chain choices and stress-test strategies.

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### Corporate playbooks

Identifying practical approaches for building structural agility — from orchestration across partners to distributed capacity and optionality.


### Country readiness

Helping leaders monitor country preparedness for future-ready manufacturing and supply chains using a shared data-driven lens.

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### Industrial strategies

Highlighting policy and partnership pathways that strengthen industrial ecosystems readiness and investment attractiveness.


## Featured insights

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### Global Value Chains Outlook 2026: Orchestrating Corporate and National Agility

Global supply chains face a new operating reality – one defined by persistent volatility and disruptions embedded in the global economy. Leaders face a defining challenge: how can supply chains be designed to remain resilient, competitive and investable when uncertainty is not temporary, but structural?

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### From Minerals to Megawatts: Building Resilience for EVs, Data Centres and Power Grids

As electrification and digitalization accelerate, the supply of minerals and metals needed for electric vehicles (EVs), data centres and power grids is under increasing pressure. This paper tracks the key minerals required across these value chains and suggests how to strengthen their supply chains.

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### Beyond Cost: Country Readiness for the Future of Manufacturing and Supply Chains

Global value chains are undergoing a profound transformation in the wake of recent elections, escalating global conflicts, shifting sustainability priorities and the rapid adoption of transformative technologies like AI.

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### Get involved in future-proofing global value chains

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

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