This comes as the Trump administration has sought to pressure trade partners to strengthen their own forced labor enforcement measures.

Historically, sanctions have been the purview of legal and compliance pros. More recently, they’ve become a challenge for operations, finance and management.

The distributors who navigate the next five years will be the ones whose teams trust what the numbers are telling them, then quickly act on that information. 

Even if traffic fully returns to the strait when (or if) the deal becomes official, the months-long global oil supply crisis won't simply resolve itself overnight.

Procurement’s influence within the enterprise has expanded significantly over the past few years. The more important question now is how that influence translates into measurable outcomes.

For boards of directors, supply chain design, risk exposure and resilience now carry heavy strategic, financial and legal consequences.

When tariffs are slapped on supply chains, who pays the tab?

Today’s sourcing conditions make the traditional directory structure irrelevant.

As supply chains become more data-driven, the critical question is whether visibility reflects reality. 

Inverto's annual Risk & Resilience Study also shows businesses are moving away from low-cost globalization models in favor of more regional supply chains.