What is a "Risk-Hedging" supply chain strategy primarily designed to achieve in a global context?

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The complete localization of all manufacturing and sourcing.

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The absolute lowest possible transportation cost at the expense of reliability.

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The pooling and sharing of resources in a network so that the risk of supply disruption from one global region can be mitigated by another.

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The elimination of all inventory across the entire supply chain.

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