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Building a resilient supply chain (without breaking the bank)

Practical resilience moves that protect service without permanently inflating inventory.

Daniel Okafor

Daniel Okafor

March 18, 2026 · 9 min read

Resilience does not mean stockpiling. The leaders we work with treat resilience as a design choice: where to dual-source, where to redesign for substitution, and where to invest in visibility.

A small number of structural decisions outperform large inventory increases on both service and capital efficiency.

Daniel Okafor

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