How nearshoring protects against supply bottlenecks

Corona pandemic, chip shortage and now the war in Ukraine. External shocks are causing supply bottlenecks in many sectors. In response, companies are increasing the number of their suppliers – or bringing production back to their home region.

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Reduce the probability of failures

In many cases, relocation at any price is not even possible, as Prof. Götz-Andreas Kemmner, Managing Partner of Abels und Kemmner Gesellschaft für Unternehmensberatung, reports: “For certain technologies and product clusters, the basic infrastructure is now also lacking in Europe, so that industries would have to be relocated back and not just individual goods.” Basically, he observes that the procurement of a product is spread across several suppliers and regions.

This is an excerpt from the recently published article on the Creditreform magazine website. You can find the full article here:https://creditreform-magazin.de/unternehmen/die-neuordnung-der-globalisierung/

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Prof. Dr. Andreas Kemmner
Prof Dr Kemmner is Co-CEO of the Abels & Kemmner Group and has carried out well over 200 national and international projects in 30 years of consulting work in supply chain management and restructuring and was the only publicly appointed expert for the profitability assessment of industrial companies in Germany for over 10 years. In 2012, he was appointed Honorary Professor of Logistics and Supply Chain Management by the WHZ. The results of his projects have already received several awards.
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Prof. Dr. Andreas Kemmner

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