Of all the potential disruptions to global supply chains today, terrorist attack might be the least understood, and the hardest to prepare for. Much of the time spent by companies looking to shore up their supply chains against disruption has been devoted to thinking about natural disasters — tsunamis, earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, erupting volcanoes. Read More

It wasn’t too long ago that we began seeing signs of a return of manufacturing from China back to the U.S. Has someone flipped the script?

Is there any room for actual collaboration between suppliers and buyers, based on more than just price?

You might think that the recent spate of supply chain disruptions would have caused a stampede of manufacturers out of China, or at least prompted them to diversify sourcing. But that hasn’t been the case.

So manufacturing is coming back to the U.S. after all? Guess it depends on whom you ask.

The Trump Administration unceremoniously withdrew the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership among 12 Pacific Rim nations before the pact was even officially born. Along with it went the potential for key protections of American intellectual property rights.

The framework for conducting global trade isn’t working. Time for a reset.