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Supply Chain Risk Management : The Challenges Driving Increased Interest in Managed Service

GlobalTranz

Any discussion on supply chain risk management and applying managed transportation to help prevent risks from coming to fruition is incomplete without touching on the pandemic to overcome supply chain disruption. Market Volatility Continues to Undermine Supply Chain Risk Management.

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Supply Chain Risk Management: 7 Challenges Driving Increased Interest in Managed Service

Logistics Viewpoints

Disruption has been the name of the game for more than a year as supply chain leaders have been dealing with changing buyer behaviors, inventory management challenges, labor shortages, weather and pandemic-related uncertainty, cyber security threats and capacity constraints that continue to create significant supply chain volatility.

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What Is Supply Chain Risk Management…and Why Can’t I Get a PS5?

ToolsGroup

Manufacturers are facing massive shortages across their supply chains, which, along with as well as an utter failure to move swiftly to account for said shortages, has resulted in a market flooded with demand for an ever-dwindling supply. It is, in order words, a failure in supply chain risk management.

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Supply Chain Resilience. Really?

Supply Chain Shaman

Today, I speak at the North American Manufacturing Association, Manufacturing Leadership Conference, in Nashville on the use of data to improve supply chain resilience. Expand the “FLOW” program for logistics information sharing to forecast transportation flow. I am currently doing research on inventory management.

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Can Manufacturers be Both Lean and Resilient?

Logistics Viewpoints

Lean speaks of the seven wastes: overproduction, unnecessary transportation, inventory, motion, defects, over processing, and waiting. Since then, manufacturers around the world have embraced lean. They supply inventory to support the next week or two of a plant’s production schedule. When Should Inventory be “Fat”?

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Supply Chain Risk Management: Could You Face a Category 4 Supply Chain Disaster?

Kinaxis

states, obvious disruptions to supply chains and supply chain risk management were a given. Many of the states affected contained key ports and supply destinations, as well as transportation and logistics hubs. This involved in some cases, diverting some inventory bound for other regions. Up to date inventory status.

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The Black Hole at the Heart of Supply Chain Management

Logistics Viewpoints

Robust supply plans can optimize across distribution, manufacturing, and logistics constraints and deliver an optimal plan that hits service objectives at the minimum cost. In general, to optimize across distribution, manufacturing, and logistics in an execution time frame, companies need to stitch together several solutions.