After a busy year of logistics network disruptions, volatile costs and geopolitical upheaval there’s no respite for supply chain decision-makers as we approach the end of 2024 and look ahead to 2025.
Join this upcoming CIPS Download webinar, with informed research and expert analysis from S&P Global Market Intelligence, to hear what you must have front of mind in your risk and resilience strategy planning. How about a US election on a knife-edge, to start?
The other side of peak season
- Supply chains have had to deal with a plethora of disruptions in 2024, resulting in accelerated shipping. Manufacturing remains depressed, weighing on the mid-term outlook for supply chain activity. Near-term challenges include strikes and storms on the US east coast, uncertainty on de-minimis strategies and an imminent shift in shipping alliances and capacity.
The big one arrives
- In a year of 70 elections globally, the US elections carry the biggest future risks for supply chains with the prospect of increased tariffs, trade deals to be done and shifts in industrial policy ahead. Regulatory uncertainties also persist in the EU ahead of the implementation of CBAM, while conflicts continue to be a factor.
Luxurious resilience and sustainability
- The supply chain travails of the pandemic era shone a light on the need for resilience, while later (relative) calm has led to a pullback in investments in resilience. Technology spending is being misdirected. Sustainable sourcing, meanwhile, including the circular economy, is becoming more important.
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Chris's team produces data-driven supply chain research based on S&P Global Market Intelligence's Supply Chain Console platform. The team's reports cover corporate supply chain decision-making, the implications of government policy and the interface between physical and financial supply chain risks. The research product leverages S&P Global Market Intelligence's data and analytics across the supply chain, international trade, economics, risk management and financial products groups.
Chris is also responsible for coordinating supply chain coverage across S&P Global's various insight groups and represents the firm in presentations, demos, trainings and webinars with customers and other external stakeholders. Before joining S&P Global, Chris was a supply chain analyst for 10 years and an energy analyst for 15 years at a range of information services, financial and logistics firms.
Chris has a BSc in Development Economics & Operational Research from the University of Lancaster.
His research broadly covers logistics and supply management as well as the quantitative analysis of global trade networks as part of the supply chain research team and Market Intelligence's supply chain console. Oak has multi-industry experience in cross-disciplinary procurement, data science and analyst roles.
Eric has been cited by the New York Times, Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal and holds a master's in business analytics from Babson College and a bachelor's in supply chain and operations management from Miami University.