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“Marcus, if we switch to Shenzhen, we violate our ESG clause. The EU auditors are reviewing us next month.”

The first alert came at 3:14 AM Singapore time. The Kampar River, swollen by unprecedented monsoon rains, had burst its banks. Within hours, the industrial park in Batu Kawan — home to Axiom’s sole supplier of neuro-sensor microchips — was under six feet of water.

Maya Vasquez had always loved the quiet hum of the supply chain control room. At 29, she was the youngest Director of Global Logistics at Axiom Electronics, a mid-sized manufacturer of medical devices. The wall before her displayed a live digital twin of their end-to-end network — from rare earth mines in Chile to assembly lines in Penang, to warehouses in Rotterdam and hospitals in Chicago.

Maya’s phone erupted. Production halt in Penang. No chips, no cardiac monitors. Axiom had exactly 12 days of inventory buffer. Hospitals had 30-day contracts.