Resilience begins before a crisis. Supply chains optimised solely for cost and speed become brittle when exposed to geopolitical disruption, conflict, climate stress or export restrictions. The answer is not indiscriminate stockpiling, but deliberate system design: diversified suppliers, visibility beyond tier one, strategic buffers and pre-agreed cross-border operating pathways. The objective is to move from efficiency alone to readiness—the capacity to keep critical goods moving when normal commercial assumptions fail.