U.S., Oct. 24 -- Ivalua has published research which shows 74% of UK businesses have encountered some type of supply chain risk within the last year.

The report consists of a UK study of 200 procurement, supply chain and finance professionals featuring organisations from the financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications and retail industries. As a leading provider of global spend management cloud solutions, the research which was conducted by Vanson Bourne on behalf of Ivalua, also found that 84% of UK businesses revealed that the expanding supplier landscape is making it more difficult to keep on top of risk.

The research found that the most common threats organisations faced included supplier failure (48%), supply shortage (46...