A global manufacturer lacked real-time tracking capabilities, making it difficult to ensure the safe transportation of its products and meet customer expectations.

Dennis McRae, senior director of consumer and industrial products with West Monroe, explains why it has become "very feasible" for manufacturers to shift operations from China and other parts of Asia back to the U.S.

It’s hard enough shoring up cybersecurity within the walls of your own business. But doing the same for the army of partners that makes up a global supply chain? That can be next to impossible.