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How Enterprises Map Critical Raw Material Exposure Across a Complex Supply Chain

August 2026

How Enterprises Map Critical Raw Material Exposure Across a Complex Supply Chain

Supply chain disruptions cost industrial companies 15 days of downtime per year on average. Yet most manufacturers can't see where the risk sits – because critical raw materials (CRM) don't appear by name in a purchase order. With CRMA, CSDDD, and CSRD now raising the bar on supply chain transparency, compliance, and reporting, that blind spot is becoming a strategic liability. At Procurement Summit 2026, ctrl+s showed how to map CRM exposure from existing spend data – across every tier, every supplier, and all 33 EU-critical raw materials.

From Blind Spot to Action: How to Map Your Company's Critical Raw Material Exposure

August 2026

From Blind Spot to Action: How to Map Your Company's Critical Raw Material Exposure

Mapping your company's critical raw material (CRM) exposure doesn't require a supplier survey or a tier-N data collection campaign. It starts with procurement spend data you already hold. Translating that spend into a material-level supply-chain exposure map is one analytical step – and the first map is enough to prioritize where deeper work pays off. This post follows the five-step framework: Scope → Map → Assess → Mitigate → Monitor and Report. The output feeds directly into your CRMA Article 24 supply-chain risk assessment and your ESRS E5 resource-inflows disclosure.

Outside the Perimeter: Why Most Companies Underestimate Their Critical Raw Material Risks

August 2026

Outside the Perimeter: Why Most Companies Underestimate Their Critical Raw Material Risks

Procurement systems track what a company buys – not what's inside it. For most large European manufacturers, critical raw material (CRM) exposure arrives embedded in components, invisible to any risk register or procurement system. That's not a data quality problem. It's a methodology problem. More than 80% of large European firms sit no more than three intermediaries from a Chinese rare-earth producer – yet that dependency appears in no purchase order. Mapping it takes only the spend data you already hold, across all 33 EU-critical raw materials.