He thinks that to alleviate supply risk on the iPhone 5 launch, Apple pushed suppliers hard, but that the supply chain has recently seen 20% order cuts related to the iPhone 5.
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In addition to these headline events, however, the nature of supply chain risk is constantly changing.
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If anything, QE seems to marginally reduce the supply of risk-free assets.
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Reflecting the nature of managing this supply chain risk, 42 percent of chemicals companies surveyed say they invest in proactive risk management capabilities compared with 36 percent in the survey average.
Given the nature of the modern, global corporation and the complex supply network that has developed around it, it is unsurprising that executives have not aligned on a unified strategy to mitigate supply chain risk.
Because of this continuing concentration of supply, the risk of a disruption to oil flows will continue to be a threat, and may even rise.
Boeing and Airbus increasingly rely on global supply chains and risk-sharing partners, some of which are involved from the design stage to produce not just components, but entire sections of planes.
The obvious conclusion is that we are massively dependent on a resource that has steady ramping global demand and very concentrated supply, with a significant risk of a disruption of this supply.
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Gasoline futures jumped 2% and U.S. oil prices fell 1%, as traders weighed the risk of supply disruptions.
This money supply was created by risk taking, facilitated by complex financial instruments.
In addition to managing risk, supply-chain directors understand the increasingly important principle of supply-chain agility to ensure they provide protection against the unexpected.
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The agriculture ministry handles disasters for the central government, an arrangement born of the view that farmers and the food supply are most at risk after catastrophes.
When you throw in shipping costs, the need to maintain a global supply chain and political risk, Boston Consulting estimates that between 600, 000 and 1m jobs will return to the US from overseas in the next few years.
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The geopolitical events, resource demand versus supply, and worldwide financial risk are having the major effects on sentiment.
For now, policymakers are too worried about fragile demand to risk tackling the supply side of the economy.
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By and large they certainly succeeded in bettering their positions but at the expense of adding liquidity risk to their supply chain.
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There are measures companies can take to better secure their supply chain and reduce their risk of trade secret theft by taking action.
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Given the difficulty of predicting international politics in the Persian Gulf region, a supply cutoff is simply a risk to be kept in mind.
In her opening remarks, Annelisa Grigg (Globalbalance) noted that biodiversity is an important factor for many businesses regarding supply chain security, reputational risk, and the licence to operate.
The remaining oil reserves will be concentrated in fewer countries, the risk of oil supply disruptions will rise and oil supply capacity will fall short of demand growth.
The integration of risk management into supply chain management has often been limited, especially for organizations that have focused on reducing costs and limiting working capital levels as a response to difficult market conditions.
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There is a risk that the supply of foreclosed homes will keep housing prices and construction depressed for years to come and that lenders will continue to require silly things like down payments, real world appraisals and verifiable income before they make mortgage loans.
Despite all of this, the percentage of companies disclosing water information through CDP has stagnated, there has been little increase in the companies citing board level oversight of water and a third of businesses are unable to state whether water poses a risk to their supply chains.
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When the housing market can respond to demand by adding to supply, there is a greater risk of overbuilding.
Not only have many funds rewritten their mandates to take on less risk, but the supply of bonds has changed.
Rather, the biggest risk with Labour on supply-side issues is not one of a return to Britain's bad old ways, but of missing opportunities.
The Goldman analyst asserts that wafer capacity will hit a new peak in Q4, creating risk of excess chip supply in the second half of this year and into 2012.
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When we surveyed chemicals industry executives regarding their use of risk analytics, we found that more than half (55 percent) of chemicals companies surveyed applied risk analytics to their supply chain management capabilities.
"The recent counterfeit incidents highlight vulnerabilities in the drug-supply chain and the possible health risk to patients if medical practices are choosing to buy unapproved drugs from a foreign supplier, " FDA spokeswoman Sarah Clark-Lynn said in an email.
Thanks to easily available credit, these may have replaced consumer-price surges as the main risk of excessively loose monetary supply.
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