Unpopular opinion: Your supply chain is not a cost center. It is a capital protection system. At the beginning of 2026 recurring themes dominate: geopolitical volatility, transport disruption, tighter regulatory scrutiny, and climate-driven instability. None of these is temporary anomaly; they are the new operating baseline. What has fundamentally changed is not the nature of the risk, but the velocity at which that risk materializes and cascades through the ecosystem. For d