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Global Sourcing Spotlight: Building a Supply Chain That Bends, Not Breaks

04/29/2026 | Bob Duke -- Column: Global Sourcing Spotlight
The global supply chain is a complex, interdependent, and shifting organism. In the past few years, pandemics, tariffs, wars, natural disasters, and transportation chaos have tested it like never before, revealing that fragility is expensive. The companies that survive do so not through luck but through resiliency. For decades, companies built sourcing strategies around the illusion of stability—one supplier, region, and price. It worked until a port closed, a single supplier went down, or a production line froze.
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