In December 2021, the New York Fed’s Global Supply Chain Pressure Index (GSCPI) hit 4.43 standard deviations above its historical average, the highest reading on record. Pressure has since eased and spiked again. These supply chain statistics cover logistics costs, freight, disruptions, AI adoption, jobs, and cybersecurity, drawn from government agencies, trade groups, and research firms.

Key Supply Chain Statistics at a Glance

• The GSCPI peaked at 4.43 standard deviations above average in December 2021. (Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 2026)
• Nearly 80% of organizations experienced a supply chain disruption in the prior 12 months. (Business Continuity Institute, 2024)
• U.S. business logistics costs totaled $2.4 trillion, equal to 7.8% of national GDP. (CSCMP State of Logistics Report, via Penske Logistics, 2026)
• Trucks moved 72.7% of the nation’s freight by weight in 2024. (American Trucking Associations, 2025)
• E-commerce made up 17.1% of U.S. retail sales in Q2 2026. (FRED, from U.S. Census Bureau data, 2026)
• Logistician employment is projected to grow 18% from 2025 to 2035, much faster than the average for all occupations. (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2026)
• Third parties were involved in 30% of breaches in Verizon’s 2025 report, double the prior year’s share. (Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, 2025)

Supply Chain Statistics: Market Size and Costs

Logistics is one of the largest cost centers in the global economy, and the numbers show it.

• Total U.S. business logistics expenditure reached $2.4 trillion, representing 7.8% of the country’s GDP. (CSCMP State of Logistics Report, via Penske Logistics, 2026)
• Transportation accounted for 61.8% of U.S. logistics costs, and inventory carrying costs accounted for 30.4%. (SC Digest, summarizing the CSCMP State of Logistics Report, 2026)
• Global logistics costs surpassed $11 trillion in 2023, equal to 10.6% of world GDP. (Statista Research Department, 2025)
• The global logistics industry was valued at over €9.4 trillion in 2023 and is projected to exceed €14 trillion by 2028. (Statista Research Department, 2025)
• U.S. third-party logistics (3PL) gross revenue grew 5.0% to $323.4 billion in 2025. (Armstrong & Associates, via National Law Review, 2026)
• U.S. 3PL net revenue rose 5.1% to $138.2 billion in 2025, and international transportation management net revenue grew 11.0% to $30.4 billion. (Armstrong & Associates, via National Law Review, 2026)

Supply Chain Statistics: Freight and Transportation

Trucks, ships, and trains move the goods behind every supply chain, and trucking dominates in the U.S.

• Trucks moved 11.27 billion tons of freight in 2024, down from 11.41 billion tons in 2023. (American Trucking Associations, 2025)
• In 2024, trucks transported 72.7% of all freight by weight across the United States. (American Trucking Associations, 2025)
• In 2024, the U.S. had 3.58 million truck drivers, and 8.4 million people worked in trucking-related jobs. (American Trucking Associations, 2025)
• Trucks carried 67% of the value of U.S.-Canada surface trade and 85% of U.S.-Mexico surface trade in 2024. (American Trucking Associations, 2025)
• Freight moved by all modes between the U.S. and its North American neighbors totaled $1.6 trillion in 2024, with trucks carrying $1.0 trillion. (U.S. DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, 2025)
• World merchandise trade volume grew 4.6% in 2025, and the WTO projects growth to slow to 1.9% in 2026. (World Trade Organization, 2026)
• Around 80% of the volume of international trade in goods is carried by sea. (UNCTAD Review of Maritime Transport 2025, 2025)

Supply Chain Statistics: Global Supply Chain Pressure Index

The New York Fed’s GSCPI tracks supply chain stress in standard deviations from its historical average, where zero is normal.

• The Global Supply Chain Pressure Index read 1.06 in August 2026, about one standard deviation above its historical average of zero. (Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 2026)
• The GSCPI peaked at 4.43 standard deviations above average in December 2021, its highest reading on record. (Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 2026) Why it matters: zero is the historical average, so the peak shows how far pandemic-era conditions strayed from normal.
• The index rose from 0.68 in March 2026 to 1.85 in April 2026, its highest reading since 2022. (Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 2026)
• The GSCPI hit a record low of -1.59 in May 2023 as pandemic-era pressure unwound. (Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 2026)
• In October 2021, almost 95% of New York region manufacturers reported difficulty getting supplies. By May 2024, between a third and a half of businesses in the region still reported difficulty. (Liberty Street Economics, New York Fed, 2024)
• In May 2024, 43% of New York region manufacturers and 24% of service firms said supply disruptions were impeding their business. (Liberty Street Economics, New York Fed, 2024)

Supply Chain Statistics: Disruption Frequency and Cost

Disruptions are now routine, and each one carries a measurable price tag.

• Nearly 80% of organizations experienced a supply chain disruption in the prior 12 months, with most facing between one and 10 incidents. (Business Continuity Institute, 2024)
• Resilinc’s monitoring platform issued 26,225 supply chain disruption alerts in 2025. (Resilinc Illumination 2025 Annual Supply Chain Report, 2026)
• Resilinc recorded a 38% year-over-year rise in supply chain disruptions in 2024, with flood alerts up 214%. (Resilinc, via GlobeNewswire, 2025)
• Four significant disruptions a year cost the average organization $82 million annually, according to a survey of 750 supply chain leaders. (Interos and Vanson Bourne, via PR Newswire, 2023)
• The Drewry World Container Index stood at $4,468 per 40-foot container on September 24, 2026. (Drewry, 2026)

Supply Chain Statistics: Visibility, Resilience, and Sourcing

Seeing past your first-tier suppliers is still the exception, and companies are rethinking where they source.

• Only 17.1% of organizations analyze critical suppliers down to tier 4 and beyond, up from 3.7% in the 2023 report. (Business Continuity Institute, 2024)
• 46.7% of organizations are insured against major supply chain disruptions, up from 37.4% a year earlier. (Business Continuity Institute, 2024)
• Among more than 250 chief procurement officers in 40 countries, 74% named maintaining active alternative sources as among the most effective risk mitigation strategies. (Deloitte 2025 Global Chief Procurement Officer Survey, 2025)
• 64% of chief procurement officers said greater supply chain visibility is among the most effective risk mitigation strategies. (Deloitte 2025 Global Chief Procurement Officer Survey, 2025)
• 90% of organizations are unaware of sub-tier supplier disruptions for up to 48 hours after they occur. (Interos and Vanson Bourne, via PR Newswire, 2023)
• Kearney’s U.S. Reshoring Index improved from -115 to -91 in 2026 but stayed negative, meaning net offshoring continued. (Kearney, via PR Newswire, 2026)
• China’s share of U.S. manufactured goods imports fell below 10% in 2025, down from 20% four years earlier. (Kearney, via PR Newswire, 2026)

Supply Chain Statistics: AI and Automation

Leaders expect AI to reshape planning, but most organizations are still working out how.

• 48% of supply chain leaders rate AI’s disruptive impact as significant or greater, up 25 percentage points from 2025. (MHI and Deloitte 2026 Annual Industry Report, via MHI Solutions, 2026)
• 88% of supply chain leaders expect to implement AI within five years, and 24% call it transformational. (MHI and Deloitte 2026 Annual Industry Report, via MHI Solutions, 2026)
• Demand forecasting and inventory optimization is the top AI use case in supply chains, cited by 33% of leaders. (MHI and Deloitte 2026 Annual Industry Report, via MHI Solutions, 2026)
• Only 23% of supply chain organizations have a formal AI strategy. (Gartner, via MarketScreener, 2025) Why it matters: adoption plans are running well ahead of formal planning.
• Just 17% of supply chain organizations are pursuing immediate transformational redesign with AI, while 83% are applying it incrementally or scaling it gradually. (Gartner, via Modern Materials Handling, 2026)
• The global operational stock of industrial robots rose 9% to a record 5 million units in 2025. (International Federation of Robotics, 2026)
• U.S. business AI use stayed between 17% and 20% from December 2025 to May 2026. (U.S. Census Bureau Business Trends and Outlook Survey, 2026)

Supply Chain Statistics: E-Commerce, Inventory, and Warehousing

Online demand, inventory levels, and warehouse space all move together, and the latest data shows all three growing.

• U.S. retail e-commerce sales reached $340.2 billion in Q2 2026, up 12.2% from a year earlier. (U.S. Census Bureau, 2026)
• E-commerce made up 17.1% of U.S. retail sales in Q2 2026, up from 16.3% in Q2 2025. (FRED, from U.S. Census Bureau data, 2026)
• U.S. total business inventories stood at about $2.76 trillion at the end of July 2026, seasonally adjusted. (FRED, from U.S. Census Bureau data, 2026)
• The U.S. total business inventories-to-sales ratio was 1.30 in July 2026. (FRED, from U.S. Census Bureau data, 2026)
• The National Retail Federation projected consumers would return $849.9 billion of merchandise in 2025, a 15.8% return rate. (National Retail Federation and Happy Returns, 2025)
• U.S. industrial vacancy fell 10 basis points to 6.9% in Q2 2026, with 62.1 million square feet of net absorption. (Cushman & Wakefield U.S. Industrial MarketBeat, 2026)
• About 49% of materials handling professionals surveyed currently use a warehouse management system or inventory management software. (Modern Materials Handling and Peerless Research Group survey, 2026)

Supply Chain Statistics: Jobs and Salaries

Supply chain roles pay well and are growing faster than most occupations, according to federal data.

• Logisticians earned a median annual wage of $82,320 in May 2025. (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2026)
• The U.S. had about 255,100 logistician jobs in 2025. (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2026)
• Job growth for logisticians is expected to reach 18% between 2025 and 2035, significantly outpacing the national average across all fields. (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2026)
• About 26,600 logistician openings are projected each year, on average, over the decade. (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2026)
• The top 10% of logisticians earned more than $133,160 a year, while the bottom 10% earned less than $50,890. (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2026)
• Purchasing managers had a median annual wage of $148,080 in 2025. (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2026)
• Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers held 2,221,200 jobs in 2025 and earned a median of $58,640 a year. (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2026)

Supply Chain Statistics: Cyberattacks and Software Security

Attackers increasingly go after suppliers and software dependencies instead of their final targets.

• According to Verizon’s 2025 report, third-party involvement in security breaches doubled from the previous year, reaching 30%. (Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, 2025)
• The Identity Theft Resource Center counted 79 supply chain attacks in the first half of 2025, affecting 690 entities and producing 78,320,240 victim notices. (Identity Theft Resource Center, via PRWeb, 2025)
• Sonatype identified 454,600 new malicious open-source packages in 2025, bringing the cumulative total of known malware to more than 1.233 million. (Sonatype State of the Software Supply Chain, 2026)
• Over 99% of the open-source malware Sonatype found in 2025 was on npm. (Sonatype State of the Software Supply Chain, 2026)
• Third-party breaches made up 35.5% of all breaches in 2024, based on SecurityScorecard’s analysis of 1,000 breaches. (SecurityScorecard Global Third-Party Breach Report, 2025)
• 41.4% of ransomware attacks begin through third parties. (SecurityScorecard Global Third-Party Breach Report, 2025)
• The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) expected supply chain attacks to quadruple in 2021 compared with the prior year. (ENISA, 2021)

Methodology and Sources

Statistics were selected from primary sources where possible (government agencies, trade bodies, and named research firms) and checked against the original page before inclusion. Figures are stated as published, and any figure that could not be confirmed on the original source page was left out.

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2. SC Digest, summarizing the CSCMP State of Logistics Report, First Thoughts, June 2026. https://www.scdigest.com/firstthoughts/26-06-26.php?cid=23144
3. Statista Research Department, Logistics Industry Worldwide, 2025. https://www.statista.com/topics/5691/logistics-industry-worldwide/
4. Armstrong & Associates, Reshaping: Third-Party Logistics in a Decade of Structural Change, via National Law Review, 2026. https://natlawreview.com/press-releases/armstrong-associates-releases-new-report-reshaping-third-party-logistics
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17. Deloitte, 2025 Global Chief Procurement Officer Survey, 2025. https://www.deloitte.com/us/en/about/press-room/2025-chief-procurement-officer-survey.html
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Supply Chain Statistics FAQs

What is the biggest problem in supply chain?

Disruption is the most common one: in the past 12 months, supply chain disruptions were reported by almost 80% of organizations (Business Continuity Institute, 2024). Limited visibility makes it harder to respond, since only 17.1% of organizations analyze critical suppliers down to tier 4 and beyond (Business Continuity Institute, 2024), and 90% are unaware of sub-tier supplier disruptions for up to 48 hours (Interos and Vanson Bourne, via PR Newswire, 2023).

Is AI going to replace supply chain jobs?

The federal data on this page does not show a decline. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects logistician employment to grow 18% from 2025 to 2035 (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2026). Meanwhile, 88% of supply chain leaders expect to implement AI within five years (MHI and Deloitte 2026 Annual Industry Report, via MHI Solutions, 2026), so the work is changing even as demand for workers grows.

Is supply chain high paying?

Federal data points to solid pay. Logisticians earned a median of $82,320 in May 2025, and the top 10% earned more than $133,160 (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2026). Purchasing managers had a higher median wage of $148,080 in 2025 (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2026).

Can you make $200k in supply chain?

Pay at or above $200,000 falls outside the sources used here. The federal figures on this page top out in the six figures: the top 10% of logisticians earned more than $133,160 (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2026), and purchasing managers had a median wage of $148,080 (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2026).

How much does the U.S. spend on logistics?

In the United States, overall business logistics expenditures reached $2.4 trillion, representing 7.8% of the country’s gross domestic product (CSCMP State of Logistics Report, via Penske Logistics, 2026). Transportation made up 61.8% of that total, and inventory carrying costs made up 30.4% (SC Digest, summarizing the CSCMP State of Logistics Report, 2026).

What is the Global Supply Chain Pressure Index?

The Global Supply Chain Pressure Index is a New York Fed measure of supply chain stress, reported in standard deviations from its historical average. It read 1.06 in August 2026 and peaked at 4.43 in December 2021 (Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 2026). Readings near zero indicate typical conditions.

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