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Global supply chain risk profile 2010

19 Jan 2010

Source: Supply and Demand Chain Executive, 12 January 2010

Many of the key risks to the supply chain that defined 2009 will remain in place through 2010, but the global economic slowdown will continue to present the greatest challenge to resuming normal business operations at home and abroad, according to a report released today by iJET Intelligent Risk Systems.

The major risks that captured headlines last year still present a threat to business, including piracy and shipping threats in the Gulf of Aden, drug violence in Mexico and the continued spread of the H1N1 virus, according to iJET, which provides global intelligence and business resiliency services.

However, the global recession is creating economic pressures that will continue to generate labor strikes, civil unrest and various forms of political extremism around the globe, the firm suggests.

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