CFOs sharpen focus on supply chain strategies amid tariff threat: BDO

Dive Brief

Despite the potential costs from import duties, “CFOs remain optimistic about growth overall,” a BDO executive said.

Published Feb. 28, 2025

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Dive Brief:

• Roughly half of CFOs plan this year to sharpen their focus on safeguarding company supply chains, BDO found in a survey, as the Trump administration threatens to impose additional tariffs on imports of a broad range of goods.
• “Even without the threat of new tariffs, supply chain planning continues to be a major focus for companies in 2025,” Eskander Yavar, national advisory managing principal at BDO, told CFO Dive while citing the survey of 500 CFOs in the U.S. and abroad.
• Forty-nine percent of CFOs intend to bring a financial perspective into supply chain strategies this year, BDO found. They seek to adapt their companies to “the supply chain impacts of continued geopolitical tensions, extreme weather events, labor shortages” and other challenges, Yavar said in an email reply to questions.

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