Supply Chain and Cost Hub
Make smarter procurement decisions and build a resilient supply chain using a centralised hub with continuously updated data and insights
Supply chain disruption is becoming the new normal. With sourcing shifts causing longer lead times, domestic manufacturing struggling to meet demand, and contract renegotiations on the rise, the utilities and renewable energy sectors are feeling the full force of U.S tariffs and increasing supply chain complexities.
Our Supply Chain and Cost Hub cuts through the noise with benchmarks, supplier insights, critical equipment forecasts and our tariff impact tool, to help you turn supply chain challenges into growth opportunities and maintain project feasibility in uncertain times.
Unparalleled granular insights into spending trends, pricing, lead times, and vendor information.
$8,5+ trillion
database of energy supply market spending
200+
countries tracked in the tariff impact tool so you can quantify the potential cost impact of any US import scenario
10+
asset types included in the tariff impact tool
10+
critical components included in the electrical equipment supply and demand forecast tool across 30+ countries
Features and workflows
Wood Mackenzie’s Supply Chain and Cost Hub is an end-to-end solution, which enables companies to evaluate tariff impacts, respond to policy changes and strengthen supply chain resilience.
Key features of Wood Mackenzie's Supply Chain and Cost Hub:
- Timely market intelligence dashboard with lead times, pricing trends, supplier market share, risk profiles and geolocation data.
- Advanced tariff assessment tool for customisable scenario testing and cost impact analysis at the equipment-item and project-level.
- Coverage across all country-level tariffs · Supply and demand forecasting for critical equipment.
Wood Mackenzie's Supply Chain and Cost Hub is backed by data including:
- $8.5 trillion database of energy supply market spending aggregated directly from industry players.
- Unparalleled research and datasets including commodity breakdowns, cost trends, and equipment supply & demand forecasts paired with commentary.
- Comprehensive database of tariffs and US import balances for over 200 countries to assess the impact of different tariff scenarios.
Wood Mackenzie's Supply Chain and Cost Hub enables a number of key workflows including:
Supply chain management:
- Navigate supply chain disruptions and longer lead times
- Mitigate risks through supplier diversification
- Optimise procurement strategies with benchmarks
- Gain key insights on vendors (equipment manufacturing locations, market share, diversity classification, equipment and services offered, subsidiary relationships)
- Respond to immediate impacts such as supplier price increases
- Assess the impact various tariffs will have depending on different tariff scenarios and your unique source of supply
Project management:
- Track up-to-date pricing, lead times, and input-cost trends
- Gain visibility into supplier landscape and potential supply risks
- Forecast equipment availability to plan for shortages or surpluses
Financial forecasting:
- Examine detailed pricing data and commodity cost breakdowns
- Monitor historical and forecasted cost trends
- Simulate differentiating tariff scenarios to optimise financial forecasting
- Anticipate equipment supply and demand shifts to mitigate potential budget impacts
- Monitor input cost drivers to elevate price volatility predictions
Why choose WoodMac’s Supply Chain and Cost Hub?
Wood Mackenzie Supply Chain and Cost Hub enables energy firms to assess, respond quickly, and plan effectively to combat tariff turbulence and other supply chain disruptions by providing robust data, insights, and tools so you can develop long-term strategies and control costs.
Our expert data-based supply chain consulting team also offers a service to develop tailored cost management and risk mitigation strategies including the analysis of an organisation’s own spending profile to understand parent-child vendor relationships, and mapping where vendor sites are located globally to ensure targeted action.
Frequently asked questions
Here you’ll find answers to the most common questions you may have on Wood Mackenzie’s Supply Chain and Cost Hub. If you have any other questions, get in touch.
The Supply Chain and Cost Hub aggregates our most topical data and insights from various products and research across WoodMac’s entire supply chain ecosystem and is tailored to address the most critical challenges, from planning through to contracting, amidst global supply chain disruption and uncertainty. The Supply Chain and Cost Hub can be purchased individually or added to your current licence.
Assessing how tariffs and other market forces impact your business in the short and long-term is critical to being agile to change. The Supply Chain and Cost Hub allows organisations to gain a competitive advantage by:
- Identifying exposure areas across your OPEX spend profile and upcoming project portfolio to quantify potential cost impacts.
- Understanding the current state of the market and tackling supplier-requested price increases intelligently.
Wood Mackenzie offers unmatched support from our expert, in-house analysts to answer questions around the volatile supply chain market and how changing market conditions will impact the industry. Our team can also offer a bespoke service to develop category- and project-specific mitigation strategies tailored to your organisation to ensure supply chain resilience.
Contact an expert
Whether you are looking for alternative sourcing options to reduce exposure to tariff-impacted countries or to improve project cost forecasting, our experts are on hand to advise on how the proprietary, in-depth data within the Supply Chain Intelligence Platform and the Supply Chain and Cost Hub can provide insights to meet your objectives.
