--- title: You Better Adapt your SC to Avoid Risks description: Which are the challenges impacting our SC in 2019? image: https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/hubfs/amanda-jones-1148620-unsplash.jpg --- [hello@psdtohubspot.com](mailTo:hello@psdtohubspot.com) [+91 8874569874](tel:+91%208874569874) Hours : Opens 10:00 AM To 07:00 PM [![logoHD](https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/hs-fs/hubfs/logoHD.jpg?width=2500&name=logoHD.jpg "logoHD")](https://www.prophetic-technology.com/) - [Home](https://www.prophetic-technology.com/home) - [Subscribe](https://www.prophetic-technology.com/pt-blog-subscribe-opt-in-consent?hsCtaTracking=174cc371-9cdc-4b94-a32e-9007f0ac4dea%7C0776642c-2604-4695-8e3f-f7a74f10031a) - [Contact Us](https://www.prophetic-technology.com/contact-us-old) - [supply chain](https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/topic/supply-chain) - [risk](https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/topic/risk) # [You Better Adapt your SC to Avoid Risks](https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/you-better-adapt-your-sc-to-avoid-risks) Is making changes to your Supply Chain (SC) a crucial issue? [Read More →](https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/you-better-adapt-your-sc-to-avoid-risks) - [supply chain (286)](https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/topic/supply-chain) - [technology (138)](https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/topic/technology) - [logistics (81)](https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/topic/logistics) - [procurement (69)](https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/topic/procurement) - [optimisation (65)](https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/topic/optimisation) Posted by [Dave Food](https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/author/dave-food) on May 28, 2019 5:08:04 PM ![Dave Food](https://app.hubspot.com/settings/avatar/9fa060d35f0f962fafafe972c24035ae) Find me on: [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/davefood) [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/davefood) [Twitter](https://www.twitter.com/davefood) **Is making changes to your Supply Chain (SC) a crucial issue?** Research of the British Standard Institution, a global *evaluator*, mentioned that the *increase of terrorism*, *corruption, labour exploitation* and *natural disaster* should be highly considered before making changes to your Supply Chain (**SC**). *Best practices* and better *adaptation* to global circumstances should be your priorities to maintain stability. Several significant concerns in **SC** risk from 2018, some of them prevailing in 2019, are: Poor working conditions that led as the top labour violation recorded last year, labour strikes most frequently disrupting manufacturing operations, and food, beverage and metal most stolen worldwide. **Which are the challenges impacting our SC in 2019? ** *Cybersecurity* standstill as a predominant crusade for each person involved in the SC.  Therefore, the security and resources of a high-speed-integrated world linked by the Internet of Things (**IoT**), is an up-and-coming challenge that **SC** expert must embark on in 2019 and beyond!   *Risks to moving operations into Africa* **–** the *US-China trade disagreement provoked the decision to move into Africa.* Professional reports bring to light the *possible-ever-increasing threat of terrorism* in African countries, where many terror clashes take place daily, even more critical than those in Asia. If your company SC has the intention to relocate to Africa, you must better take into a count not only such *terrorism risks* but *corruption among security and customs staffs.* *CTPAT Minimum Security Criteria* - **Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism** in the USA is urgently revising *new criteria for certification* to cope with the escalating risk experiences on the operative background. Enterprises will have to embark on intense struggles to accomplish SC security and *diminish potential-arising risks.* **Migration still embodies critical risk -** Massive movement, escalating around the world, signifies conflict caused by *reduced local economic conditions* and *lack of jobs*. *Migrants affairs* register recently a high per cent given the urgent need for incomes to support their families; as a result, enterprises must deal with both *security* and *corporate social responsibility* risk as well. Refugees caused by *labour abuses* *are travelling* from Central to North America, Southeast Asia and Africa and from the Middle East to Europe.  Brazil is reporting signs of deterioration due to the budget cuts of resources available to carry out inspections, boosting migrant-labour abuses. Constant alerts that show these problematic conditions will appear all through 2019; therefore, businesses must invest in assessing what the risk of migrant labourer exploitation means for their SC. **Tense policy changes due to new governments** Brazil, India, the United States of America, the United Kingdom and Mexico included, recently changed their governments, compelling new political ideologies and transforming the social and economic panorama in their countries.  *Mexican* president’s initiatives are focusing mainly to end corruption, stop organised crime, cargo theft and oil theft in the country. The implications of such actions might bring consequences for many *business* *stability*, affecting businesses in the coming year, particularly *in-transit cargo theft*. The *Brazilian* president’s policy embarked on efforts which might *originate risks* for several industries running operations in Brazil, mainly concerning the *ethnic territories*, *rights of workers*.  The recommendations from experts suggest taking more *effective actions* on business partners in Brazil, to *fill up spaces deserted by the government’s e*xclusion of many supervisory *prerequisites*. The negotiations on the *Brexit* are still on the go, arising uncertainty throughout the supply chains operating within and across the United Kingdom and the European Union. *India’s in-progress elections* this month could originate a change on *government policies*, affecting the global SCs, as new proposals were not *completed accepted* by workers that gave rise to *strikes demanding for low fuel prices* and *better wages*. It’s expected *abrupt disturbances* and significant fluctuations in the *governance* of the country. *Intellectual property protection* and the *moving of significant facilities* for a host of businesses are originating the *USA-China trade dispute*. *Natural disasters, child labour, and forced labour* are considerably widespread. So, enterprises looking to establishing at other Southeast Asian countries should *consider the costs of fares* compared to the cost of increasing risks to their SC. **Summing up:** to prevent t*hreats* to business *stability*, you most maintained *best practices* in your company and *better adapt to global* circumstances.   **Dave Food** [Prophetic Technology](https://www.prophetic-technology.com/) **Subscribe to our emails & exclusive free content.** **[![I want to subscribe](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/2979069/174cc371-9cdc-4b94-a32e-9007f0ac4dea.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/2979069/174cc371-9cdc-4b94-a32e-9007f0ac4dea)**     - [supply chain](https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/topic/supply-chain) - [risk](https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/topic/risk) - - - ## Post Your Comments Here #### About Us Prophetic Technology is a team of dedicated people that combine their expertise in business domains with a passion to release potential.s every page it appears on. 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