IOG Supply Chain Monitor

Know What's Changing Before It Changes Your Operation.

Recurring, source-backed intelligence on the external conditions that matter to your business, configured around your materials, suppliers, markets and priorities.

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Current status. Version 0.1.6 is in testing and pilot validation. It is not generally available yet, and each capability below is marked with what it does today.

The product

Supply chains are affected by far more than purchase orders and delivery schedules.

Material prices, trade restrictions, supplier developments, transportation conditions, competitive investments and regulatory changes can all influence operating performance. IOG Supply Chain Monitor provides recurring, source-backed intelligence focused on the external conditions that matter to your business. It is configured around your materials, suppliers, markets, geography and operating priorities rather than delivering generic industry news.

Configured to your exposures

You choose the materials, suppliers, competitors, countries and regulatory subjects it watches. Two businesses get two different reports from the same software.

Evidence before conclusions

Every finding links to its source and says whether it is an observed fact or a headline that still needs checking.

Targeted, not predictive

It reports published changes worth a management review. It does not claim to predict every disruption.

External, not internal

It reads public sources and needs no access to your systems. Operational Intelligence covers your internal operating measures.

What it monitors

Eight monitoring areas

Not every area is equally developed yet, so each one shows what the current version reads today, what is available once configured for you, and what still needs a new source or development. Open an area for its sources and limits.

Supported today Works from the sources the current version reads.
Configurable Supported by current sources once set up in your profile.
Needs integrationNeeds development Requires a source or development not yet built.

Materials and Commodity Prices

Selected published price indices and economic indicators tied to what you buy and what it costs to operate: steel, aluminum, copper and other metals, plastics and resins, energy, packaging and other manufacturing inputs. Each report shows the latest published value, the change from the previous observation and any run of consecutive moves, with priority set by thresholds agreed for each series.

Status: Supported todayConfigurableNeeds integration

Sources, status and limits

One move can be noise. A persistent run is a condition worth reviewing before the next purchase commitment or customer quotation.

Supported today Producer Price Index series from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, read through the St. Louis Fed's FRED database.
Configurable Other published FRED series that track an input you buy, where a matching series exists.
Needs integration Subscription market-price services, and comparison with your own purchase prices.

Published indices describe market-wide prices. They do not represent your contract prices, and the report does not treat them as if they do.

Suppliers and Manufacturers

Publicly reported developments at the suppliers and manufacturers you name: plant closures and expansions, financial restructuring, bankruptcy announcements, workforce reductions, labor disputes, production interruptions, acquisitions, capacity investments, ownership changes and publicly announced product discontinuations.

Status: Supported todayNeeds development

Sources, status and limits

Supported today News feeds for each named supplier, filtered by your keywords and sorted into event categories such as closures, expansions, labor interruptions, financial distress, capacity changes and shortages. Several outlets reporting the same event become one finding.
Supported today New SEC filings by publicly traded suppliers, with a link to the company’s filings.
Needs development News-based detection of acquisitions, ownership changes, financial restructuring and product discontinuations as their own categories. Today a public company’s SEC filing is reported when it is made.

Findings are based on available external evidence such as news reports and public filings. The monitor has no privileged access to any supplier's operations, and a private supplier is covered only as far as it is reported publicly.

Regulatory Developments

Published regulatory notices and government proceedings on the subjects you select: Federal Register activity, Department of Commerce proceedings, trade investigations, antidumping and countervailing duty activity, import and export restrictions, environmental and workplace regulation, and industry-specific requirements.

Status: Supported todayNeeds integration

Sources, status and limits

Supported today Federal Register rules, proposed rules and notices from the agencies you choose, such as the International Trade Administration, the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Bureau of Industry and Security, EPA and OSHA, kept only when they mention one of your configured topics.
Needs integration State registers, agency dockets and industry standards that are not published in the Federal Register.

Tariffs and International Trade

Trade developments tied to the materials, countries, product categories and sourcing relationships you select: tariffs, import duties, trade restrictions, export controls and international sourcing developments.

Status: Supported todayConfigurable

Sources, status and limits

Supported today Trade actions published in the Federal Register, including antidumping and countervailing duty determinations, reviews and investigations.
Configurable Topic terms for your countries and products, and trade-related news about named suppliers.

This is not a customs classification, duty calculation or legal compliance service. The report shows that a trade action was published and links to it; what it means for your imports is a question for your customs broker or trade counsel.

Transportation and Logistics

Relevant freight indices and externally reported transportation interruptions, port developments, carrier-related events, logistics capacity changes and other disruptions.

Status: Supported todayConfigurableNeeds integration

Sources, status and limits

Supported today Freight price indices from the Producer Price Index, such as long-distance truckload.
Configurable News about named carriers or companies, sorted as transportation disruptions or logistics bottlenecks.
Needs integration Port and carrier operating data.

No live shipment tracking, and no connection to your carriers' systems.

Competitors and Industry Developments

Specifically identified competitors and companies of strategic interest: expansions, acquisitions, product launches, capital investments, market exits, public financial results and disclosed capacity changes.

Status: Supported todayNeeds development

Sources, status and limits

Supported today News feeds and SEC filings for each named company, using the same event categories as suppliers.
Needs development News-based detection of product launches and acquisitions as their own categories.

Corporate and Financial Developments

Public filings and disclosures that signal financial strain, restructuring, corporate change or strategic investment at the companies you watch.

Status: Supported today

Sources, status and limits

Supported today New SEC EDGAR filings (current reports on Form 8-K, quarterly and annual reports, and registration statements) by any named company that files with the SEC.
Supported today Bankruptcy, insolvency, default and going-concern language in news about named companies.

The report lists each new filing and links to the company’s filings on EDGAR. It does not summarize what the filing says.

External Disruption Monitoring

Published information on weather events, natural disasters, geopolitical disruptions, international supply interruptions and regional industrial incidents that could reach your suppliers or routes.

Status: ConfigurableNeeds integration

Sources, status and limits

Configurable News about your named companies and topics, sorted by weather, geopolitical and disruption terms such as hurricane, flood, sanctions, export controls, fire and force majeure.
Needs integration Dedicated weather, hazard and incident data services.

Coverage depends on the sources and topics configured. An event that no configured source reports will not appear.

Configuration

Your Supply Chain. Your Monitoring Priorities.

Supply Chain Monitor runs from a monitoring profile written for your business. The profile decides what is watched, which sources are read, what counts as high priority and how the report reaches you.

Industries and sectors: The industry context and keywords that frame the profile.
Materials and commodities: The published price series that track what you buy, each with its own thresholds.
Supplier organizations: The suppliers you name, with their other names and the keywords that matter for each.
Competitors: The companies whose expansions, filings and announcements you want to see.
Countries and sourcing regions: The countries and trade subjects that trade notices and news are matched against.
Regulatory subjects: The agencies, document types and topics read in the Federal Register.
Economic indicators: Cost indices beyond direct materials, such as industrial electric power or freight.
Event categories: Which of sixteen event types are reported, from facility closures to trade restrictions.
Monitoring priorities: Priority thresholds for each material and priority rules for each event category.
Reporting preferences: Weekly, every two weeks or monthly; PDF and text formats; delivery to a shared folder, with email delivery through your own mail system being validated.

How a profile is set up

Identify your external exposures.What you buy, who you buy it from, where it comes from, who you compete with and which rules apply to you.
Select subjects and sources.Each exposure is matched to the published series, agencies, filings and news sources that cover it, with the thresholds that set priority.
Establish the baseline.The first report records where every series and open item stands, so later reports can show what moved.
Generate recurring reports.On schedule, the monitor reads the configured sources and marks each finding new, updated, unchanged, stale or closed.
Refine the profile.As the business changes, the profile changes with it: add a supplier, drop a topic that only produces noise, adjust a threshold.

Sample intelligence report

See a real report

A complete weekly report produced by a test build from live public sources, for an illustrative customer profile: a precision metal fabricator in the Mohawk Valley.

Historical demonstration report. Illustrative customer profile. Not current market intelligence.

IOG Supply Chain Monitor

Weekly Intelligence Report

Customer: Demonstration Precision Metal Fabricator
Period: October 5–11, 2026
Generated: October 13, 2026

At a glance

Monitoring item	Historical observation	Observation dates	Priority
Cold-rolled steel sheet and strip	+5.07%	Aug 2026 vs. Jul 2026	High
Steel mill products	+1.70%	Aug 2026 vs. Jul 2026	High
Aluminum base scrap see note	+1.21%	Aug 2026 vs. Jul 2026	Medium
Long-distance truckload freight PPI	+1.90%	Aug 2026 vs. Jul 2026	Medium

Changes are between published monthly observations, as they stood when the report was generated. They are not changes measured during the reporting week. Note: the demonstration profile labeled series WPU102302 “aluminum mill shapes”; its published title is aluminum base scrap, and that is how it is shown here.

From the executive summary

All six monitored price indices rose at their latest published observation. Cold-rolled steel sheet and strip rose 5.07%, its fifth consecutive monthly increase, and steel mill products rose 1.70%, also a fifth consecutive increase. Twelve Federal Register trade notices on steel products matched the configured topics.

View Sample Intelligence Report Full report: materials, regulatory watch, suppliers, competitors, continuity, source coverage and evidence links, with a print-friendly view.

Where it stands

What it is today, and what it is not

Status: Version 0.1.6, in testing and pilot validation. Not generally available.
Delivery: Installed software, not a hosted portal. It runs on a Windows PC at your site on its schedule, without anyone present, and catches up a run missed while the PC was off. Reports are delivered to a shared folder.
Sources read today: FRED (Producer Price Index series), the Federal Register, SEC EDGAR and selected public news feeds. Nothing from your own systems.
Not offered: Guaranteed prediction of disruptions, real-time monitoring or live alerts, a hosted portal or dashboard, shipment tracking, access to confidential supplier information, regulatory compliance determinations, customs classification or tariff liability calculation.
Separate from Operational Intelligence: Operational Intelligence examines selected internal operating measures you provide. Supply Chain Monitor examines selected external market, regulatory, supplier and supply-chain information. They are different services, scoped and priced separately.
Pilots: Pilot discussions are open to businesses whose monitoring needs fit what the current version reads. Each pilot is scoped individually, and acceptance depends on that fit.

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Source integrity

Evidence before conclusions.

Supply Chain Monitor works only from information retrieved from defined sources. Each finding identifies its supporting evidence and separates observed changes from interpretation, potential implications and developments that are not yet verified.

Source attribution

Every finding links to the page, filing, notice or data series it came from. A finding whose source was not retrieved in that run is not reported.

Evidence classes

Each item is marked as a verified fact (the source states it), an interpretation, or a hypothesis: a headline the monitor matched but did not read in full, which needs checking.

Reporting continuity

Each report compares against the last one, so a finding is shown as new, updated, unchanged, stale or closed rather than repeated as if it were new.

Historical comparisons

Price series are compared with the previous published observation, and runs of consecutive increases or decreases are counted.

Prioritization

High, medium and low priority come from thresholds and rules agreed in your profile, so the reasoning behind every priority can be read and changed.

Data freshness

Every value carries its observation or publication date. Monthly price indices are published weeks after the month they describe, and the dates make that visible.

Coverage limitations

Each report lists every source it attempted, whether it succeeded, how many items it returned and the freshest date it found. A source that failed is named, not hidden.

Human management review

The report is written for your management team to review and act on. The judgment stays with the people who know the business.

Supports decisions. Does not make them.

Supply Chain Monitor supports business decisions. It does not make purchasing, sourcing, investment or compliance decisions on its own. The current version builds each report by rule, with no AI model call: every value is a computed change, a configured threshold or a field taken from the source.

What would you want watched?

Tell us your materials, suppliers and markets. We'll tell you what the monitor can cover today and what it cannot.

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