Supply Chain 2025: Tariffs, Stockpiling, and Diversification

In this episode of Interlinks, Lisa Anderson, President of LMA Consulting in Los Angeles and I, discuss some of the supply chain effects of the geopolitical and international trade tensions that have been ongoing for some time now and that are expected to continue as the new US administration under President Donald Trump takes up the reins of power in Washington DC.

Tariffs, inventory stockpiling, and supply chain diversification are some of the effects that we are seeing flowing from these tensions and while many of the most forward-looking companies with extensive international interests are ahead of the trend on this front, many others are not.

We are already seeing some non-American multinationals setting up operations on US soil to get on the right side of any future tariff barriers and some American companies bringing operations home, closer to home or to more geopolitically safe and sustainable locations in Europe and Asia.

Keeping up with all the multidimensional challenges to supply chains across several interconnected domains such as geopolitics, compliance, cyber and security is a competency and skill set ever more in demand from companies large and small across all sectors of the economy.

Lisa and I touch on all of these topics in a wide-ranging conversation that I hope you enjoy as much as we did.

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