As the CIPS Risk Index, powered by Dun & Bradstreet, shows, risk is on the increase. The tipping point of economic risk came in 2008, when the full effect of the recession hit globally, but we’ve also seen that the shockwaves from major environmental disasters, such as the Japan earthquake in 2011, and social unrest on every continent, can ripple and resonate across supply chains, turning, at a stroke, the best of plans upside down.