Inspectorio’s 2025 report highlights rising compliance costs, sustainability demands, and slow digital adoption in global supply chains.

Inspectorio introduced its second yearly State of Supply Chain Report 2025 which emphasizes important supply chain transformation patterns and obstacles. The assessment shows brands retailers and suppliers face significant challenges from uncertain tariffs combined with sustainability standards along with complicated compliance requirements.

The pursuit of compliance proves to be more difficult today as reported by 85% of respondents given current sustainability standards. Organizations above 75% have raised their compliance budgets to handle changing worldwide regulations that several businesses consider fragmented and resource-intensive.

The majority 75% of the survey group consider sustainability essential when they purchase products. According to less than 10% of survey respondents customers show interest in paying additional costs for eco-friendly products. Supplier competitiveness suffers because retailers enforce both compliance and environmental improvement expenses on mid-tier suppliers as reported by more than 60% of businesses surveyed.

Since less than 10% of businesses have fully digitized, the pace of supply chain automation advancement is still moderate. Over 45% of firms have not digitized more than 25% of their operations because of employee reluctance and an unclear return on investment (ROI). A large portion of 70% of businesses express doubt about implementing digital solutions and 14% don't have established plans to digitize their operations.

According to Inspectorio’s CEO Chirag Patel companies should combine compliance practices with risk management and digital solutions to create adaptable supply chains with high resilience.