About SupplyMaven
Supply Chain Risk Intelligence For Professionals Who Act on Data
SupplyMaven is a supply chain risk intelligence platform that monitors over 200 data variables around the clock. It tracks port congestion at global ports, commodity prices, border wait times at US-Mexico and US-Canada crossings, and macroeconomic indicators from the Federal Reserve and Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The platform's core index, the Global Disruption Index (GDI), quantifies overall supply chain disruption risk on a 0-100 scale by combining transportation, energy, materials, and macroeconomic signals.
The Global Disruption Index (GDI)
The GDI is a composite score on a 0-100 scale that quantifies supply chain disruption risk. Higher scores indicate greater risk. The index combines four pillars, each independently scored and weighted based on statistical importance to overall supply chain health.
Each pillar uses statistical normalization against historical baselines to convert raw data (vessel counts, commodity prices, wait times, economic indicators) into comparable risk scores. When a port has 30% more vessels than its 90-day baseline, or a commodity price deviates significantly from its historical norm, the score rises proportionally.
Measures: Port congestion across global ports, US border wait times, maritime chokepoint monitoring, and freight rate indicators.
Transportation disruptions are the most immediately visible supply chain risk. Port congestion at Los Angeles or Rotterdam directly delays goods movement within days.
Measures: Crude oil prices, natural gas prices, regional electricity demand, and refinery utilization.
Energy costs flow through every supply chain. Refinery outages affect chemical feedstocks. Natural gas spikes raise manufacturing input costs. Electricity demand signals industrial activity levels.
Measures: Prices for commodities including metals (copper, aluminum, steel), semiconductors (gallium, germanium), agricultural products (wheat, corn, soybeans), and industrial inputs (lithium, rubber, lumber).
Raw material price movements are leading indicators of cost pressure. A 20% copper price spike today becomes a procurement budget problem in 30-90 days.
Measures: VIX volatility index, Producer Price Index (PPI), industrial production, manufacturing employment, capacity utilization, dollar index, and trade balance.
Macroeconomic conditions set the backdrop for supply chain risk. A strong dollar makes imports cheaper but exports harder. Rising PPI signals cost pressure across the economy.
Data Sources
SupplyMaven ingests data exclusively from primary government and institutional sources. No surveys, no estimates, no self-reported data. Every number on the platform traces back to an authoritative data provider.
Data: Hourly electricity demand across 8 US power grid regions. Monthly petroleum, natural gas, and refinery data.
Used for: Energy pillar of GDI.
Data: Industrial production (INDPRO), manufacturing employment (MANEMP), capacity utilization (MCUMFN), PPI, VIX, dollar index, trade balance.
Used for: Macro pillar of GDI.
Data: Vessel positions and port vessel counts for global ports.
Used for: Port congestion scoring in the Transportation pillar.
Data: Spot prices for commodities across energy, metals, agricultural, and industrial categories.
Used for: Materials pillar of GDI and commodity price tracking.
Data: Commercial vehicle wait times at US-Mexico and US-Canada land ports of entry.
Used for: Border component of the Transportation pillar.
Data: Global news articles filtered for supply chain, trade, energy, and logistics keywords.
Used for: News signal boost in GDI and intelligence briefs.
How SupplyMaven Works
Automated pipelines fetch data from government APIs (EIA, FRED, CBP, NOAA), commodity pricing services, vessel tracking providers, and news sources on schedules ranging from hourly to daily. Each data point is timestamped and stored with its source for audit purposes.
Raw data is normalized against historical baselines. Port vessel counts are compared to 90-day rolling averages. Commodity prices are scored against historical distributions. This converts disparate data types into comparable risk scores.
Processed scores feed into the GDI, which updates on the dashboard as new data arrives.AI-generated intelligence briefs provide natural-language analysis of current conditions for each pillar. Alerts notify users when scores cross risk thresholds or when significant changes are detected.
Who Uses SupplyMaven
Monitor raw material price movements and supplier region risk. When commodity prices spike or a port or border crossing on a supplier's route congests, adjust safety stock levels, accelerate purchase orders, or activate alternate suppliers before the disruption affects production.
Track port congestion and border wait times across global trade routes. When congestion builds at a destination port, reroute shipments to alternate ports, shift modes from ocean to air, or adjust customer ETAs before the delay cascades through the delivery schedule.
Follow commodity price moves alongside the GDI Materials and Energy pillars to see input cost pressure building across energy, metals, agriculture, and industrial materials.
The GDI provides a single number that captures overall supply chain health. Instead of monitoring dozens of separate data feeds, managers can watch one composite score and drill into pillar details when the score moves. Weekly intelligence briefs summarize conditions and highlight emerging risks.
Frequently Asked Questions
SupplyMaven is a supply chain risk intelligence platform that monitors over 200 data variables across transportation, energy, materials, and macroeconomic indicators. Its core index, the Global Disruption Index (GDI), quantifies overall supply chain disruption risk on a 0-100 scale.
The GDI is a composite supply chain risk score on a 0-100 scale, where higher values indicate greater disruption risk. It combines four pillars -- Transportation, Energy, Materials, and Macro -- each scored individually and weighted based on statistical importance. The GDI updates as new data arrives from government agencies, commodity markets, and port monitoring systems.
SupplyMaven ingests data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED), US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), NOAA, Datalastic (vessel tracking), Commodities-API, and GNews. All data comes from primary government and institutional sources, not surveys or estimates.
Data update frequency varies by source. Electricity demand data arrives hourly from EIA. Commodity prices update every 3 hours. Port congestion scans run multiple times daily. FRED economic indicators update on their publication schedule (monthly for most series). The GDI recalculates whenever new data arrives from any pillar.
SupplyMaven is designed for procurement teams, freight forwarders, commodity traders, supply chain managers, and operations professionals at small and mid-sized businesses. It provides the same type of supply chain risk intelligence that large enterprises build internally, at a fraction of the cost.
Dashboard Pro is $99 per month or $990 per year. Plans include all indexes, intelligence briefs, and alerts.
Supply chain intelligence that works as hard as you do.
200+ data variables. Global ports and commodities. One proprietary index. One platform.