This Week's Top Five Stories in Supply Chain
Exploring Starbucks' Sustainable Supply Chain Initiatives
Starbucks has spent more than five decades developing its coffee supply chain.
It has now published its 2025 Impact Report, which details how it sources coffee and manages operations across producer countries.
According to the report, Starbucks implemented its Back to Starbucks strategy at the start of the 2025 fiscal year. The approach refocused operations on core business activities.
Supply Chain Cyber Attacks Hit 26% of Firms in Past Year
More than a quarter of organisations suffered third-party cyber breaches in 2025, with reliance on risky vendors quadrupling vulnerability rates.
Supply chain leaders require more visibility than ever. One in four (26%) of businesses have experienced a security breach from their supply chain over the past year.
These figures, from Databarracks’ Data Health Check 2026 report, highlight an obvious disconnect between threat awareness and operational action.
US President Trump Tightens Defence Supply Chain Rules
Domestic commercial interests appear to be a priority for many nations globally at the moment, with US President Donald Trump signing an Executive Order this week targeting loopholes in defence and tightening restrictions on foreign critical materials.
The directive restricts the use of statutory waivers under 10 U.S.C. 4872, which previously allowed defence contractors to source vital inputs from non-domestic suppliers.
Global Aid: How Logistics Firms are Responding to Venezuela
On 24 June 2026, two earthquakes hit Venezuela, measuring at 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude. The damage has cut off communications and power in many areas, with destruction across the nation – in the northern state of La Guaira, 80% of buildings collapsed as a result.
More than 4,500 people are dead, with thousands more displaced or injured.
Now, logistics companies around the world are using their global networks to provide support to those in need.
Roland Berger: Are Europe's Defence Supply Chains Resilient?
In recent years, critical raw materials have been facing a significant boom in demand, driven by the energy transition, the rapidly growing number of data centres, the increase in AI availability and the ongoing demand for smartphones.
This is causing ongoing delays in materials sourcing and shortages across critical materials – a problem currently hitting the European aerospace and defence industry.
In a new report, Roland Berger explores how supply chain issues for necessary materials is causing vulnerabilities, and offers key governmental solutions.
