CRU Risk Navigator
Improve Supply Chain Resilience for Raw Material Supply and Price Risk
Operating in continuously changing market conditions can lead to information overload. Filtering out the vital information to act on becomes a challenge. For raw material supply and price risk, CRU Risk Navigator provides decision support to inform supply chain resilience planning.
CRU Risk Navigator is a decision-support tool designed to help organisations across manufacturing, finance, metals and mining production identify changing raw material risk, understand drivers, and prioritise which materials and supply chains require attention and action.
Powered by CRU’s connected intelligence across price, supply and demand, trade, forecast and production datasets, the tool analyses risk using an expertly configured methodology.
Aluminium, Copper and Steel raw material chains are currently tracked by CRU Risk Navigator, with more coming soon.
Identify Changing Risk Indicators to Inform Supply Chain Resilience Planning for Raw Materials
The CRU Risk Navigator gives professionals in sourcing, supply chain management, research, trading and risk analysis a structured view across tracked raw materials, helping to identify shifts in supply and price risk.
Custom baskets can be used to monitor specific portfolios, categories or supply chains for a targeted view of potential exposure.
Understand What is Driving Change
Identifying changes in risk is part of the story. Understanding the factors causing it is essential to assess the relevance, potential impact and likely trajectory.
CRU’s historical context and short-, medium- and long-term views give a clearer picture of how risk has evolved and what lies ahead.
Prioritise Where Deeper Attention is Needed
Not every market development requires the same level of response. By bringing together risk assessments, context, trends and portfolio-level views, CRU Risk Navigator distinguishes meaningful developments from background market noise.
Act With Greater Confidence
Better-Informed Commodity Risk Management Across Teams
CRU Risk Navigator provides a shared view of raw material supply and price risk, helping teams align around a common evidence base whilst focusing on the factors most critical to them. This shared view can inform commodity cost risk management discussions focused on raw material supply and price exposure.
Procurement and Sourcing Teams
Support sourcing decisions with a clearer view of changing supply and price risk. Prepare supplier discussions and negotiations with greater confidence.
Supply Chain and Resilience Teams
Identify emerging supply concerns earlier and focus attention on the materials that matter most.
Market Intelligence and Research Teams
Accelerate analysis by connecting changing risk with the factors driving it. Prepare stakeholder updates and management briefings more efficiently.
Commercial, Finance and Risk Teams
Bring a more consistent view of market risk into planning, forecasting and exposure discussions. Understand potential implications for costs, margins and commercial performance.
Commodity Traders and Market-Facing Teams
Monitor changing conditions across multiple markets and prioritise deeper investigation where it is needed most.
Built on CRU’s Connected Intelligence
Anchored in CRU’s unique intellectual property, the CRU Risk Navigator combines proprietary raw materials intelligence, market expertise and risk methodology to provide a structured view of changing raw material supply and price risk.
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Proprietary intelligence built on independent data, methodologies and market expertise developed over decades.
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A unique combination of price, supply and demand, trade, forecast and production datasets within a single risk framework.
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Rather than isolated signals, connected intelligence helps to translate market developments into structured views of supply and price risk.
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Transparent methodologies and supporting context explain how assessments are formed.
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Download a BrochureFrequently Asked Questions
Commodity supply chain risk refers to the potential implications of changing raw-material supply conditions for an organisation’s sourcing, operations, cost or commercial position.
The CRU Risk Navigator provides material-level views of supply and price risk, helping organisations identify where risk is changing across tracked materials and portfolios. Custom baskets provide an aggregated view of risk across selected groups of materials, supporting portfolio-level monitoring and comparison.
The CRU Risk Navigator does not map supplier networks, logistics routes or customer bills of materials.
Commodity market risk can be influenced by changing supply conditions, trade developments, shifting demand, price volatility and other market factors. These changes may affect costs, sourcing, commercial exposure and market positioning.
CRU Risk Navigator helps organisations identify changing supply and price risks, understand the factors driving them, and prioritise where attention may be needed. It brings risk assessments together with supporting context, market intelligence and historical perspectives in a single view. Short-, medium- and long-term horizons add context on how conditions may evolve.
This provides a structured foundation for investigation, analysis, stakeholder communication, reporting and decision preparation across procurement, supply chain, market intelligence and commercial teams.
Commodity risk software can help organisations structure and interpret information about changing market conditions.
The CRU Risk Navigator is a decision-support tool built on more than 50 years of independent commodity intelligence. It helps users identify where raw-material risk is building, understand what is driving it and prioritise where attention is needed.
Commodity price data, market reports and news provide valuable inputs, but organisations must still determine which developments matter most across the materials they track.
The CRU Risk Navigator brings together risk assessments, market drivers, supporting context and time horizons within a single workflow, helping organisations identify changing conditions, understand what is driving them and prioritise where attention may be needed.
By combining these inputs into a structured view of supply and price risk, the CRU Risk Navigator also makes it easier to prepare stakeholder updates, management briefings and further analysis.
