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Opinion: A Post-Covid 19 World for Supply Chains: Back to the Future?

6 River Systems

” However, as we saw in China after SARS in 2002, it’s possible that ‘normal’ won’t quite look like what we’re used to. Trying to “lean out” our supply chains has been the mantra for ages. What might our world resemble in a few months? Maybe, but likely in more traditional categories. Safety stock is “bad.”

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Takeaways from Descartes Evolution 2019

Talking Logistics

Virtually all of those startups disappeared by 2002 — they either burned through all of their investment money or were acquired by bigger fish. Descartes survived, however, and became one of the first software companies to embrace the software-as-a-service (SaaS) business model. Source: Google.