It's Time to Rethink Your Global Logistics.

By Willy C. Shih and Adrien Foucault Published on HBR.org / March 12, 2021 / Reprint H068OF HBR Staff Over the last three decades, companies have established wide-ranging global supply chains that have taken advantage of steadily improving scale economies in global logistics. Pay More Attention to Logistics in Supply Chain Design We suspect one of the reasons organizations stick with established trade lanes rather than more flexibly considering alternatives is a siloed view of supply chain design. With some of the shifts already underway to diversify production and make supply chains more resilient, it is a good time for managers to take a more holistic view of logistics as a dynamic and evolving link in their supply chains. The two Canadian ports have steadily increased their volume over the past few years, driven by lower intermodal transit costs to the U.S. Midwest, with HBR / Digital Article / It's Time to Rethink Your Global Logistics Copyright © 2021 Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation. [Extracted from the article]