Supply Disruptions Index (SDI) - USA 

Release date: 11:00 a.m. (ET) Wednesday September 11, 2024 

US SUPPLY DISRUPTIONS INDEX (US SDI) -- August 2024

• Our monthly supply disruption index (US SDI) combines 200 million shipment-level import records for the US, measuring temporary disruptions in consumer-supplier pairs.

• In August 2024, US SDI has accelerated up to to 2.03 percentage points (pp) of consumer-supply pairs temporarily disrupted as compared with the pre-2020 average. This is a decrease compared to the peak level of supply disruptions in June 2020, which was 2.85pp higher as compared with the pre-2020 average.

• Supply disruptions continue to persist with varying degrees across US regions, product categories, and countries of origin. 

  • Among US regions, disruptions for US firms in the Northeast (1.25pp) and Midwest (1.95pp) regions have accelerated. Disruptions for the West (1.11pp) have slowed down.

  • Among product categories, disruptions persist with varying degrees of severity. For example, disruptions for the manufacturing (1.40pp) and durable (0.98pp) categories remain elevated, disruptions for footwear (0.26pp) have normalized.

  • Among countries of origin, disruptions with China (1.17pp) have decreased. Disruptions with India (1.38pp) have increased; disruptions with South Korea (1.66pp) remain elevated.