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Supplier Financial Health: Don’t Wait for the Worst, Reach out and Talk!

Supply Chain View from the Field

example is the default of Argentina and the associated immediate spread widening on debt of other South American countries (most notably Brazil), as well in the business context of buyer and supplier firms. This updating leads to “contagious” jumps in credit spreads of business partners, and can rapidly spread.An

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Trends 2024: Risk Management

Enterra Insights

Journalist Ben Unglesbee reports, “Extreme weather events are the top risk facing supply chains in 2024, according to an annual outlook report from Everstream Analytics. The firm attached a risk score of 100% to the possibility of extreme weather causing supply chain disruption.”[4]

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How the Inflation Reduction Act’s EV Tax Credit Will Reshape Supply Chains

QAD

Critical Mineral Requirement Lithium, cobalt and many other critical minerals are critical for clean vehicle batteries, yet they’re already in short supply due to geopolitical issues, cost inflation, supply chain disruption and forced and child labor concerns.

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The Latest in the US/China Trade War Drama & the Global Supply Chain

Intelligent Audit

At the G20 Summit in Argentina, a huge announcement was made – a “pause” was put on the ongoing trade war between China and the United States. The concept of a supply chain means that each link in that chain is inexorably linked to the next; a disruption in one affects the entire chain.

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