By Guest Contributor Guy Alroy, Early.Vision

A year into the COVID-19 global fight, we got another kind reminder (the Suez Canal crisis) of how fragile the supply chain may be, and how reshoring must be on the agenda for brands and manufacturers, not to mention countries, around the world.

In early 2020, many industries around the globe were severely impacted due to lack of supplies and raw materials as well as final products due to the COVID outbreak and China shutting down factories and transportation. For some, it was a wake-up call to revisit reshoring initiatives that were neglected, especially at the state/country level, while others forgot the crisis as soon as supplies started to stream again.