Strengthening global supply chains against El Niño and extreme weather events

This report examines how El Niño and extreme weather events can disrupt global supply chains through cascading impacts such as flooding, drought, extreme heat, and transport disruptions. Drawing on the analysis of more than 500,000 supplier locations across 100 organizations, trade-route assessments, and seven weather-related perils, it identifies critical vulnerabilities across high-risk regions and sectors. The report explores how extreme weather events affect suppliers, commodities, logistics networks, and trade flows, highlighting hidden risks beyond direct suppliers and quantifying potential impacts on costs, delays, rerouting, and capacity constraints.

The report will help you:

• Understand how El Niño can affect suppliers, commodities, trade routes, and logistics networks across key global markets.
• Identify hidden vulnerabilities beyond tier 1, including critical tier 3 suppliers that may be outside your organisation’s current supply chain visibility.
• Quantify potential disruption through trade data, including delays, rerouting, increased freight costs, and constrained capacity.
• Build a practical supply chain resilience framework based on upstream mapping, risk assessment, and layered mitigation strategies.