Validate your exposure. Elevate your strategy.

Discover the driving forces behind supply chain disruption with Sphera’s 2023–2025 incident data analysis. As financial pressures intensify, ESG risks cluster, and quality failures accelerate, Sphera’s Supply Chain Risk Report equips procurement and supply chain leaders with the definitive data needed to detect, prioritize, and mitigate risk – enabling confident, evidence-based decisions that drive measurable advantage.

This report distills millions of signals into clear trends across four key risk categories: Viability, Delivery, Image & Compliance (ESG), and Quality & Performance.

Key Findings

  • Viability leads: In 2025, financial distress incidents rose by 10.3%, making viability the top risk category.
  • Q3 is pivotal: Late-year surges in Viability, ESG, and Quality (+73.5%) risk demand close monitoring.
  • Quality accelerates: Quality incidents expanded by 59.4%, signaling deeper supplier and operational strain.
  • ESG risks spike: ESG risk now clusters around regulatory cycles, creating high-impact exposure periods.

Take action with Sphera’s analysis

Move beyond reactive response. Use proven data to strengthen your 2026 strategy:

  • Target interventions in the risk categories and periods that matter most.
  • Refine monitoring and reporting to capture critical shifts.
  • Link trends across viability, ESG, and quality to identify structural vulnerabilities.

Lead with insight, not assumption.

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