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Reshoring and Nearshoring 2026: Rebuilding Resilient Manufacturing

Episode 384: Beyond Lowest Landed Cost

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In this episode of the SmartKeys podcast, we explore the structural transformation underway across global supply chains: the strategic shift toward reshoring, nearshoring, and friend-shoring. For decades, manufacturing operated under a single metric—chasing the lowest landed cost, regardless of distance or geopolitical vulnerability. Today, supply chain shocks, rising tariffs, and regional instability have fundamentally rewritten that calculation.

Based on the August 2026…

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