Composite Business Risk Index

The Composite Business Risk (CBR) indicator is an estimate of the overall supply risk in the global EMS sector and is related to the Geographic Constant in the Global Outsourcing Tool of the Outsourcing Navigator Series but also includes; monetary exchange, economic forecasts, infrastructure scalability, cost & availability of resources (including energy), outstanding regulatory and geo-political issues, status of down-slope supply-chain, availability of up-slope services, cost & availability of capital, fixed asset utilization rates, book-to-bill ratios, current delivery trends, lead-time projections and a quality rating factor

Leading Indicators Report

The bi-monthly Leading Indicator Report (LIR) includes all of the data necessary to apply the Outsourcing Navigator methodologies,  including: Fully-Burdened Labor Rates, Corporate Costs by EMS Type, EMS Margin Expectations by Volume & Sector and Risk Constants by Geography.  Additionally , Charlie includes the  key hysteretic factors (Geographic Pacing, Sector Pacing, Capacity Utilization by Geography and Solution Cycle by EMS Type) he uses  in his ongoing research &  analysis of the global EMS industry 

This data is available at no charge on this website. Periodic updates to the data will be provided on a monthly or quarterly basis, as necessitated by the data we gather and analyze. Be sure to register on this site to receive notification of future data updates and other industry insights provided by CBA. To register to receive updates on this data, and/or background on Charlie Barnhart’s Leading Indicators research, please contact us.

January 2010 Leading Indicators Report

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