Talking Supply Chain: The top 3 risk trends for 2025

The new normal for supply chains means disruptions rule the day. You must be prepared for what’s to come, even if you don’t know what that will be. To help do that, each year Moody’s ranks the top three supply-chain risk trends it foresees for the year ahead.

For 2024, it identified:

• Strategic sourcing realignment, including reshoring and friendshoring;
• Tariffs, sanctions, bans and other restrictions
• GenAI

So what is in store for 2025? Andrei Quinn-Barabanov, supply chain industry practice lead with Moody’s, joined the Talking Supply Chain podcast to talk about what the firm sees as the biggest risk trends facing supply chains in the year to come.

“We are picking supply chain restrictions,” he said. “It’s really hard to get away from this trend. As you see, countries and blocks of countries like the European Union [are] threatening each other with action, trade action with tariffs. They are negotiations happening between China and the EU right now over cars. The U.S., of course,. has both implemented and brought up as an idea all sorts of restrictions. China is threatening retaliation, and this is just the EU, China, U.S. Triangle. This is not even touching many other countries. So 2025 will definitely continue to be greatly impacted by those restrictions.”

Quinn-Barabanov also identified reputational risk and value at risk as the other top trends to pay attention to in 2025.

Listen as he explains more on these trends, how businesses can respond now, and why proper tracking and monitoring is becoming an invaluable tool to managing risks.

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