Supply Chain Risk Intelligence Review 2025

The year 2025 upended the status quo of global trade. Sweeping tariff changes forced responsible sourcing teams to redefine their risk management and had the biggest impact on their programmes this year, according to EiQ survey data. EiQ’s Supply chain risk intelligence review 2025 comes at a critical time where insights into the operating landscape and vulnerabilities of key sourcing hubs must be analysed to empower resilient and agile supply chains.

EiQ’s 2025 risk ratings update reveals that beneath the surface of modest global averages, critical risks are intensifying in key markets and product categories.

In our latest report, you’ll discover: 

• Forced labour concerns: This report uncovers key sourcing regions showing increasing vulnerability for forced labour concerns, illustrated through audit data, media incidents and even shipment detentions for forced labour flags.
• Child labour issues in unexpected places: Child labour violations showed high-risk in countries like the United States, where federal enforcement actions highlighted systemic violations, highlighting the need for increased scrutiny across all markets, even those perceived as low-risk.
• Health and safety alarms: 40% of markets are high or extreme risk for workplace injuries and building safety, with more than 850 fatalities detected through adverse media scans worldwide.
• Key commodity risks: Understand supply chain vulnerabilities at the production-level, and why identifying the social and environmental concerns for key products can deepen your understanding of your supply chain.

We are in a new reality where no sourcing market is considered ‘safe’ from the human rights and environmental vulnerabilities that leave businesses exposed. The need to approach supply chain sustainability risks from a data-driven lens became more critical in 2025, in a landscape defined by reshuffling, reshoring, and homeshoring, agility depends on visibility.

This report serves as a roadmap for navigating disruption and the uncertainty of the risk landscape and will empower businesses in 2026 to move smarter, faster and with more intent to achieve total supply chain confidence.