The New Geography of Supply Chains: Why Geopolitics Is Reshaping Network Design

For most of the modern supply chain era, companies designed global networks around cost, scale, inventory efficiency, labor availability, and transportation performance.Geopolitical risk was acknowledged, but it usually remained outside the core operating model. Wars, sanctions, trade disputes, and political instability were treated as disruptions to manage rather than permanent conditions around which supply chains should be designed.That distinction no longer holds.Geopolitics has become a cor