How We Do the Work Is As Important As Where We Do It
Repatriating supply chains to home shores has become an increasingly fashionable topic in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Part of the rationale is to ensure that adequate redundancy and resiliency are built into our economies, even at the cost of ājust in timeā inventory accumulation practices (which have prioritized short term profitability at a cost of the kinds of supply shocks we are experiencing today).