INTERNATIONAL: High prices raise supply-chain risks

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  • Defensive strategies
  • Hedging
  • Supplier competition to lower costs
  • Supplier mergers to reap synergies
  • Supply-chain financing
  • Divestitures to preserve brand image
  • Consolidating suppliers in similar regions
  • Defensive integration
  • Avoiding costly supply failures
  • Integration to enhance upstream innovation
  • Market ambiguity and contracting difficulties
  • Recapitalising suppliers
  • Be where the bottleneck is

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