Technology and artificial intelligence disruption emerged as the leading two-year concern in a KPMG survey, with 64% of respondents selecting it as the risk with the largest expected effect on their organizations.
Separately, 70% said their organizations’ risk exposure had increased during the two years before the survey. For the next three to five years, 56% said geopolitical, energy, cyber, trade or climate-related events could severely interrupt operations or significantly affect costs and performance.
KPMG International released its report, Building a shock-resilient supply chain, on Nov. 3 at KPMG in India’s 17th ENRich energy and natural resources conclave. Ipsos collected responses in September 2026 for KPMG International’s Energy, Natural Resources and Chemicals practice.
The survey included 109 senior executives and business leaders. KPMG said participants worked in fields including automotive, consumer and retail, financial services, industrial manufacturing, infrastructure and transportation, technology and telecommunications, and energy, natural resources and chemicals. The listed markets included Australia, Brazil, China, India, Korea, Japan and the United States.
Respondents named AI and predictive analytics as a resilience measure (49%), followed by scenario planning and stress testing (44%) and alternative sourcing strategies (39%). KPMG recommends that businesses improve visibility into suppliers, make supply chains more adaptable and coordinate resilience efforts across industries and government.
KPMG’s Dynamic Risk Assessment method considers how damaging and likely a risk may be, how it connects with other threats and how quickly it changes. The firm uses those factors to examine how a disruption might ripple across industries, supply chains and regions.
Anish De, KPMG International’s global head of Energy, Natural Resources and Chemicals, called resilience “a board-level imperative.” KPMG’s recommendations also call for resilience work across supply-chain operations and multiple sectors.
