The COVID-19 pandemic exposed significant vulnerabilities in global supply chains. With technology companies scrambling to respond to unprecedented disruptions, it became clear that traditional supply chain models were no longer sufficient. When we look back on the supply chain crisis before and during the pandemic, it is easy to identify the areas of improvement because we now have so much more information and the benefit of hindsight, but during the crisis, it was extremely challenging to find immediate ad-hoc solutions, which clearly illuminated a lack of contingency planning.