Building supply networks that survive the next shock

In the years following major global supply disruptions, many businesses over-corrected by adding redundant suppliers and inventory buffers without addressing the underlying visibility gaps.

True resilience comes from visibility: knowing not just your direct suppliers, but the dependencies two and three tiers upstream.

Once visibility exists, redundancy can be applied surgically to the components and routes that carry disproportionate risk, rather than blanket duplication across the network.