Covid-19, the recent Suez Canal blockade together with various other exogenous shocks have made it painfully clear to executives and leadership teams all around the globe that their value chains are fragile and must become more resilient. The weapon of choice promising rapid and sustained results is the increased digitalization of the supply network across all nodes. This goes beyond offering more visibility of the supply chain but also the chance of a more accurate prediction of possible future scenarios, improved risk management, and closer collaboration among the SC partners. Overall, digital supply networks offers one way to ensure the competitiveness on the rapidly changing global marketplace. 

• The possibilities of digital supply networks to improve resiliency against exogenous shocks
• Building local networks to leverage to date unknown potentials through digital platforms
• Gain better insights into future scenarios and ensure competitiveness
• Understand that technology alone will not solve this problem and processes have to be critically assessed as well