U.S., June 25 -- In a survey of 260 global supply chain leaders between February and March 2020, it was found that the COVID-19 pandemic is one of a number of disruptions that have put global supply chains under pressure.
"Global supply chains were being disrupted long before COVID-19 emerged," said Kamala Raman, senior director analyst with the Gartner Supply Chain Practice. "Already in 2018 and 2019, the US-China trade war made supply chain leaders aware of the weaknesses of their globalized supply chains and questioned the logic of heavily outsourced, concentrated and interdependent networks. As a result, a new focus on network resilience and the idea of more regional manufacturing emerged. But this kind of change comes with a price tag...