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What to Expect When You’re Expecting Supply Chain Disruptions

QAD

Supply chain disruptions have led many discussions the past couple years — and how they have been embraced by experts as the new normal. However, it is important to remember that the supply chain has always been vulnerable. Luckily, connected chains allow for the sharing of real-time information.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 20 – 26)

Logistics Viewpoints

and Israeli startups focused on logistics, the supply chain and customer fulfillment. Retailers are reviving an old playbook to manage their inventory levels after four years of struggling to find the sweet spot of holding enough merchandise but not too much. And now on to this week’s logistics news. East Coast. 18 to $3,860.

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Leap Day and the Supply Chain

Enterra Insights

Impacts of Leap Day on the Supply Chain Back in 2016, Feras Asakrieh , Senior Director of VIP Support and Conversion at Fanatics Sportsbook, observed, “February 29th may only come around once every four years, but volatility and supply chain disruptions are constant.”[2]

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Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2016

Talking Logistics

And more companies are treating Supply Chain Design as a continuous business process instead of a standalone project or a once-a-year exercise (see Supply Chain Design: Growing Scope, Community, and Collaboration ). What will happen in 2016? Or will any rate increases, if they actually occur, be short-lived?

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Troubling Signs for Retail Supply Chains- Walmart Badly Misses on Profitability

Supply Chain Matters

Walmart CEO Doug McMillon indicated to investors that inflationary costs related to rising fuel and inventory costs created more pressures on margins than previously expected and that the retailer is now adjusting. Online retail shipping volumes reportedly declined 3 percent on a year-over-year basis and noted as the largest drop since 2016.

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The Impending Ocean Carrier War on Last Mile Fulfillment

Freightos

The original 2016 driver for this shift seems hard to believe in today’s freight environment: a focus on long-term business viability spurred by ocean freight rates so low that they precipitated the bankruptcy filing by ocean carrier Hanjin. Image via StarAir.dk). Behind the Maersk shift. Enter Big Tech. Amazon as a carrier.

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Achieving enterprise-wide adoption of supply chain risk management

Resilinc

The unprecedented supply chain disruptions caused by COVID-19 provide potent arguments for supply chain pros seeking greater support of SCRM from C-level leaders. Coronavirus = new perspective on risk management in supply chains. Perceived high costs and conflicting objectives.