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Top Geopolitical Risks 2025
KPMG’s 2025 Risk Forecast highlights rising geopolitical tensions, AI disruption, regulatory fragmentation, and supply chain fragility—urging leaders to build resilience amid global uncertainty.
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Balancing Cost and Resilience
Companies face the challenge of balancing cost-efficiency with supply-chain resilience: rising tariffs, geopolitical shockwaves and shifting trade policies are putting 20-30% of manufacturing EBIT margins at risk.
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Procurement 5.0
Companies must elevate procurement into a strategic powerhouse—leveraging AI and digital tools, reinforcing supply-chain resilience, partnering deeply with suppliers, embedding ESG, and adopting agile operating models.
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Trade Tectonics
Global trade dynamics are shifting: by 2035, trade between emerging markets and China could grow at 4-5% annually, while trade involving advanced economies may grow just ~2%. In a fragmentation scenario, some corridors—especially those tied to China—could decline by ~6-8%.
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How to build supply chain resilience
Global supply chains are under increasing strain from shocks like pandemics, geopolitics, and climate change. Building resilience means proactively mitigating risks, embracing decentralization, applying AI-driven flexibility, and modernizing supply-chain infrastructure.
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Keys to AI success in building resilient supply chains
To succeed with AI in building resilient supply-chains, organisations must ask nine critical questions covering problem definition, strategic fit, data readiness, governance, and human impact.
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