From Shock to Strategy 2025

Strategies shaping value chains up to 20303 Manufacturing and supply chain stakeholders’ actions today will shape the value chains of 2030. Grounding the council’s foresight work, 2030 serves as a strategic anchor point for the analysis for 2040 and 2050. Bridging work done by the World Economic Forum – in collaboration with Kearney and highlighted in From Disruption to Opportunity: Strategies for Rewiring Global Value Chains – the council drew on insights from more than 300 executive survey respondents and more than 30 consultations to understand the leading actions manufacturing and supply chain actors are taking to redesign their value chains in the lead-up to 2030. Building on these actions, the council engaged the Global Lighthouse Network – a consortium of leaders in technology-driven industrial transformation – to showcase best-in- class industry use cases that translate strategic intent into operational delivery. By documenting this near-term baseline of actions and exemplars, the council has established a reference point from which longer-term projections and strategies have been developed. Overview of strategies shaping value chains up to 2030 FIGURE 2 Sour ce: World Economic Forum Integrated sustainability End-to-end collaboration Technology adoption — Cradle-to-cradle product design and closed-loop business models — Use alter native sustainable parts and sustainable raw materials — Defining quantifiable sustainability targets — Reducing Scope 3 emissions — Growing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) — Investing in continuous reskilling and upskilling pr ogrammes— Revamping legacy systems — Implementing network-wide asset visibility technologies — Investing in big data and advanced analytics — Introducing technology hubs — Deploying real-time enterprise resource planning (ERP) for rapidly responding to disruptions — Integrating AI decision-making with supply chain digital twin— Diversifying the supplier network to incr ease r esilience — Having nearly all in-r egion-for -region operations though re- and nearshoring — Applying advanced analytics in customer engagements thr ough demand sensing — Expanding supplier management to include tier 2 and beyond — Enabling data sharing between suppliers and customers From Shock to Strategy: Building Value Chains for the Next 30 Years 9