News / Does diversity bring resilience to global supply chains? That's the puzzle

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Recent studies show companies are anxious to make their supply chains more resilient to cope with future disruptions – diversification is a central theme in this quest, but geography is a puzzle.

After a hugely disruptive year, 3D Hub’s Supply Chain Resilience Report 2020 found that 72% of companies experienced external disruptions to their manufacturing supply chain.

Much of this has been attributed to Covid-19, which the 3D Hub report calls the “single biggest disruptive event of the past decade”.

Of the companies ...