Revisiting Mexico, Again

As supply chain disruption persists, the case for nearshoring grows

Recently, AlixPartners published a comprehensive report on the trend toward revisiting Mexico's potential to represent an increasingly critical link in a frayed global supply chain. Trade wars, concerns about resilience, and pandemic-related disruptions were clearly leading executives to focus more attention south of the U.S. border.

Significant events are raising the need to freshly evaluate the potential breadth and scope of a nearshoring strategy at the midpoint of 2022 including:

• Further supply chain disruptions caused by the conflict in Ukraine, affecting availability of goods, costs, and turnaround time.