Supply Chain Intelligence

Assess current global supply chain disruption risk. Returns the Global Disruption Index (GDI) — a real-time composite score from 0-100 measuring disruption across transportation, energy, materials, and macroeconomic pillars. Higher scores indicate greater supply chain risk. Bu...

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Get detailed breakdown of supply chain disruption risk by category. Returns individual scores for each GDI pillar — Transportation (port congestion, border delays, freight weather), Energy (petroleum, natural gas, electricity, fuel prices), Materials (31 commodity prices with...

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Not available. The SupplyMaven Manufacturing Index is not currently offered; this tool returns a plain not-available response.

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Monitor real-time commodity prices and price volatility for supply chain cost management. Tracks 31 commodities across energy (WTI crude, Brent, natural gas, coal, ethanol), metals (copper, aluminum, nickel, zinc, lithium, cobalt, iron, titanium, uranium), agriculture (corn, w...

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Monitor real-time port congestion and vessel traffic at 26 major global ports. Returns vessel counts at berth and at anchor, congestion score versus historical baseline, and port status. Covers US ports (Los Angeles, Long Beach, Savannah, Houston, New York/New Jersey, Charlest...

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Get real-time supply chain disruption alerts from global news intelligence and event detection. Returns categorized alerts for port closures, trade policy changes, tariff actions, natural disasters, labor strikes, sanctions, commodity shortages, and weather disruptions. Each a...

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Get statistically validated leading indicator signals evaluated against live GDI data. Each signal is a Granger-causal relationship (p≤0.01) with a specific lag time and directional accuracy. Returns ACTIVE, WATCH, or CLEAR status for each signal. Paid tier only.

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Get real-time commercial border crossing wait times at US-Mexico and US-Canada ports of entry. Returns current delay in minutes for commercial vehicles, number of lanes open, and port status. Updated every 30 minutes from US Customs and Border Protection. Covers all major comm...

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Monitor real-time vessel traffic and congestion at critical maritime chokepoints — Suez Canal, Panama Canal, Strait of Malacca, Strait of Hormuz, Bab el-Mandeb, and other strategic waterways. Returns total vessel count, average speed, count of slow or stationary vessels, and a...

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Get real-time air cargo disruption status at major US and international freight hub airports. Returns FAA ground delays, ground stops, arrival and departure delays with estimated minutes, closure status, disruption score, and traffic collapse detection. Covers major cargo hubs...

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Get active trade policy actions currently impacting supply chain risk — tariffs, sanctions, export controls, import restrictions, and regulatory changes. Unlike news alerts that expire after 72 hours, policy adjustments persist as long as the policy is in effect and continue t...

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Get comprehensive US energy market status for supply chain cost analysis. Returns crude oil prices (WTI and Brent), natural gas spot prices (Henry Hub), retail fuel prices (gasoline, diesel), natural gas storage versus capacity, refinery utilization rates, petroleum stock leve...

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Get US freight rail performance metrics including average train speed, terminal dwell time, cars on line, trains held per day, railcars not moved within 48 hours, total carloadings, intermodal units, and grain transport rates. Sourced from the Surface Transportation Board rail...

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Get the US freight transportation health index from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Returns the Transportation Services Index (TSI) for freight and passenger, truck tonnage, rail carloadings, rail intermodal volume, waterborne freight, inventory-to-sales ratio, and in...

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Get key economic indicators affecting supply chain costs and conditions. Returns Federal Reserve data (industrial production, capacity utilization, manufacturing PMI, housing starts, imports), Producer Price Index by category, Global Supply Chain Pressure Index (GSCPI) from th...

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Get real-time natural disaster alerts from USGS (earthquakes M5.0+), NOAA (hurricanes, tropical storms), NHC (tropical cyclone centres, Atlantic and eastern and central Pacific), and GDACS (global earthquakes, cyclones, floods, volcanoes). Returns active and recent events with...

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Monitor risk levels across 10 major ocean freight trade corridors (China-US West Coast, China-US East Coast, China-Mexico, Taiwan-US, India-US, China-Europe, Europe-US, Middle East-Europe, Brazil-US). Each corridor chains origin ports, chokepoints, and destination ports into a...

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Statistically validated leading indicator signals evaluated against live supply chain data. Each signal is a Granger-causal relationship tested at p<=0.01 with directional accuracy >=55%. Signals predict commodity price movements and macroeconomic changes 1 week to 6 months ah...

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Not available. The SupplyMaven Manufacturing Index is not currently offered; this tool returns a plain not-available response.

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Comprehensive weekly supply chain situation report combining all SupplyMaven data sources into an executive-level brief. Includes GDI score with pillar breakdown and trend, top disruption events with risk scores, commodity price movements, port congestion highlights, and activ...

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Get plain-language explanations of active predictive signals. Each narrative explains the mechanism behind a signal — why the predictor leads the target, what economic logic connects them, and what the current reading implies. Designed for non-quantitative users who want to un...

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Get the US Energy Information Administration's Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO) — official government forecasts for energy production, consumption, and pricing. Returns both historical actuals and forward-looking projections for crude oil prices, natural gas prices, electricit...

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Get trend analysis of the Global Disruption Index over time. Returns the current GDI score plus 7-day, 14-day, and 30-day comparisons with direction, velocity of change, and pillar-level momentum. Identifies which pillar is driving changes and whether risk is accelerating or d...

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Get alerts for commodities experiencing abnormal price volatility. Flags any commodity where the 24-hour price change exceeds normal ranges or where prices are at extreme levels. Returns the current price, 24-hour change percentage, trend direction, and risk assessment. Answer...

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Get port congestion trend analysis — not just current congestion, but direction and trajectory. Returns how congestion has changed relative to historical baselines, identifies ports where congestion is accelerating, and flags ports approaching critical thresholds. Answers: 'Wh...

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Get AI-generated intelligence briefs for each supply chain dimension — energy, materials, transportation, macro. Each brief provides a narrative analysis of current conditions, key drivers, emerging risks, and recommended watch items. These are not raw data — they are synthesi...

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Get the weekly 'Signal of the Week' content package — a pre-written, data-verified marketing bundle generated every Monday from live SupplyMaven data. Returns a Substack article (~500 words), LinkedIn post (~200 words), and Twitter/X thread (4-5 tweets), all built from verifie...

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Get freight rate index observations extracted from news intelligence. Covers major ocean freight indexes (BDI, SCFI, WCI, CCFI, HARPEX) with direction, magnitude, trade lane, and rate values. Each observation includes confidence score and source URL. Used by logistics planners...

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Get customs and trade policy events extracted from news intelligence. Covers tariff changes, sanctions, export controls, trade agreements, anti-dumping duties, and regulatory changes. Each event includes affected countries, products, direction (RESTRICTIVE/LIBERALIZING/NEUTRAL...

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Get labor actions affecting supply chains extracted from news intelligence. Covers strikes, lockouts, slowdowns, contract negotiations, and protests. Each event includes union, employer, location, worker count, affected ports, status, and impact description. Used by logistics...

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Returns freight rate pressure scores for major shipping and commodity indices (WCI, SCFI, BDI, CRB). Includes current values, week-over-week changes, z-score vs 52-week baseline, and mapping to trade corridors. WCI (Drewry World Container Index) tracks container rates in USD/F...

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Get customs friction baseline scores by country. Returns a composite 0-100 score combining port congestion and customs/trade policy events. Covers 21 countries across North America, East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Europe, Middle East, and South America. Higher score = m...

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Get active natural disaster events that may impact supply chain operations. Sources: USGS (earthquakes M5.0+), NOAA (storms/hurricanes, US), NHC (tropical cyclones, Atlantic and eastern and central Pacific), GDACS (global earthquakes, tropical cyclones, floods, volcanoes). Ret...

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Grid load for five US data center hub zones, built from EIA-930 hourly demand and delivered as daily or monthly series. Hubs: DOM (Dominion Virginia Power zone, PJM), NCEN (North Central, ERCOT), CE (Commonwealth Edison zone, PJM), PGAE (Pacific Gas and Electric, CAISO), ZONJ...