Company: WCC
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000929008-25-000005
Chunk: 36

Company: WESCO INTERNATIONAL INC
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 36
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 and proactively manage supply chain developments, we have experienced, and may continue to experience, some delays in receiving products from our suppliers. We cannot be certain that particular products will be available to us, or available in quantities sufficient to meet customer demand. Any product shortages and delays could impair our ability to make scheduled deliveries to our customers in a timely manner and cause us to be at a competitive disadvantage.

Product shortages and delays in deliveries, along with other factors such as price inflation and higher transportation, import or export costs, including tariffs, could result in price increases from our suppliers. We may be unable to pass these price increases on to our customers, which could erode our profit margins. Supply chain constraints, increased product costs and inflationary pressures could continue or escalate in the future, for example if the Russia-Ukraine, Middle East and other geopolitical conflicts escalate or are further prolonged, which would have an adverse impact on our business and results of operations.

We conducted a climate risk assessment in 2022 aligned to the TCFD to determine the materiality of climate-related risks to our business, and an update of this assessment commenced in December 2024 to enhance our alignment with other sustainability reporting frameworks including the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (“ESRS”) and the International Sustainability Standards Board (“ISSB”)’s climate standard. The effects of global climate change could increase the frequency and intensity of natural disasters or extreme weather conditions, such as tropical storms, severe winter weather, drought, flooding, heat waves, wildfires and rising sea levels, which could cause or exacerbate supply chain interruptions. For example, some of our customers’, suppliers’ and our operations are in water-stressed regions or areas prone to flooding or wildfires, and our facilities depend on power grids that may be impacted by severe weather. With global climate change increasing the frequency and severity of such events, it is possible that we could face greater climate-related risks in the future, which could result in temporary or prolonged interruptions in operations, increase our operating costs and capital expenditures, and reduce revenue and profitability.

The profitability of our business is also dependent upon the efficiency of our supply chain. An inefficient or ineffective supply chain strategy or operations could increase operational costs, decrease sales, profit margins and earnings, which could adversely affect our business.

Product cost fluctuations could decrease sales, profit margins and earnings.

Some of our products, such as wire and conduit, are commodity price based products and may be subject to significant price fluctuations which are beyond our control. Recently, we have experienced fluctuations in commodity costs, as well