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BDP and its supply chain consulting unit, Centrx, conduct periodic research to help clients and business allies better navigate the issues, trends and drivers that affect international trade and supply chain management.
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More than 80 percent of supply chain managers recently polled at manufacturing companies involved in international trade by BDP International's in conjunction with its supply chain consulting unit, Centrx, expressed concern that growing protectionism could sink the world into a global depression.
Respondents also feared the current economic downturn could result in a prolonged reversal of world trade. On a somewhat brighter note, three-quarters of them believed the recession would not last more than another 12 months.
Nearly half (48%) of supply chain executives in the chemical, consumer goods, industrial and retail sectors consider their companies’ to be global, but management of their supply chains would indicate otherwise.
Indeed 60% of these executives said supply chain decisions in their companies are made at the regional or local levels, according to a recent study conducted by BDP International’s Centrx™ consulting unit and St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia.
Just 35% of respondents reported their companies’ supply chains are managed globally.
