Logistics reliability is emerging as a board-level risk as supply chains face physical limits, delivery failures, and growing exposure across operations, finance, and governance.
Physical logistics limits are reshaping sourcing, inventory placement, and customer commitments earlier than planning cycles anticipated.
Eaton is separating its Mobility Group to double down on electrical and aerospace growth. How will that reshape the mobility supply chain?
Sappi’s CDP Forests A score highlights how credible sustainability data is increasingly used to support procurement, investment, and regulatory decisions.
What begins as supplier sustainability reporting is increasingly becoming contractually binding, with implications for procurement risk and supplier governance.
Water is now a strategic risk, not just a utility. A new index from Ecolab and CDP offers companies a way to measure and manage water use with real benchmarks.
A $2.3B Defense Logistics Agency contract underscores how chemical procurement is increasingly shaped by regulatory exposure, forecasting risk, and supply chain resilience.
Plastic pallets are seeing wider adoption as logistics teams prioritize durability, hygiene, and automation compatibility amid tightening supply chain conditions.
American Resources’ EMCO has begun receiving 2026 shipments of end-of-life lithium-ion batteries, supporting domestic preprocessing and refining of critical battery materials.
In early 2026, procurement risk is increasingly shaped by supplier accountability, data demands, and contractual exposure—forcing a shift in how sourcing decisions are evaluated.
As compliance pressure intensifies in early 2026, risk is moving beyond internal systems and into supplier relationships.
A House committee has advanced legislation that would allow limited flexibility in Clean Air Act offset requirements for certain manufacturing and critical mineral facilities.
South Korea’s AI Basic Act sets a global precedent for AI governance, but the law remains silent on energy and environmental impacts.
Embedding decontamination into modular pharmaceutical facilities from the outset.
A WEF report shows women’s health remains underfunded even as climate stress and disclosure expectations increase exposure across systems.
Emergency orders are no longer rare responses. As infrastructure strain persists, temporary measures are becoming operational norms—with implications for planning and risk.
Fleetzero has raised $43M to expand its hybrid marine systems. The Houston-based startup is betting on electrification as shipping eyes lower emissions.
Britain's first rare earth magnet plant in decades opens in Birmingham. The site recycles tech waste into low-carbon magnets for EVs, wind turbines, and more.
Enforcement, export controls, forced labor rules, tariffs, and data demands reshaped global trade compliance in 2025. Here’s where pressure materialized.
Scope 3 reporting is no longer just transparency. Verification and cross-border requirements are transforming disclosures into compliance exposure.