Top 10 supply chain risks for 2019
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Jaclyn Jaeger2019-05-06T17:57:00
Natural disasters, droughts, port disruptions, cargo theft, and industrial fires are some of the top supply-chain risks that should keep executives and chief risk officers on their toes in 2019, according to a new risk report published by DHL Resilience360.
The report, based on risk and incident data collected by DHL’s cloud-based risk management provider Resilience360, presents a global overview of major events that disrupted supply chains in 2018 across five key regions: North America, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and the Middle East, and Asia Pacific.
The report further provides a list of the top 10 supply chain risks to watch in 2019. According to Resilience360, those top 10 supply-chain risks are:
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