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Baltimore Bridge Collapse: An Opportunity to Reinforce the Importance of Supply Chain Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

For example, a redundant supply chain may have safety stocks, contingency contracts, multiple sourcing, and diversified networks to ensure the availability and continuity of supply. The port serves as a gateway for exporting coal to Europe, Asia, and South America, as well as importing coal from Canada and Colombia.

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Using Digital Supply Chain Planning to Respond to Market-Changing Disruptions like COVID-19

ToolsGroup

Being able to understand if supply expected from Europe needs to be re-routed and sourced from Asia or South America is important when entire channels become unavailable. One US-based ToolsGroup manufacturing customer sources parts from several Chinese and Italian suppliers.

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Air Freight Rates Peak, Ocean Rates Slowly Sink: Freight Rate Update W50

Freightos

FIGURE 1: LAG ON 2016 RATES BY TRADE LANE (Source: Freightos International Freight Index). Europe-South America Atlantic. Europe-South America Pacific. Four weeks ago, soon after Europe’s air congestion began, China-Europe rates started catching up with last year’s levels (although they still lag 12% behind).

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Is It Time to Concentrate on Climate Adaptation?

Enterra Insights

South America would say goodbye to cities like Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires. East notes, “Sustainability analytics requires a lot of data from many different sources. Some of that data already exists and is standardized, while other data is coming from new sources with no established standards.”

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The Endless Complexities of the Ocean side of Supply Chains

SCMDOJO

In total, rollover rates in transshipment ports were up across every region except for South America, one of the smallest for global and regional transshipment activities. Transshipment rollovers in South America declined by 3% from 46% to 43% year-on-year. Source: project44 Monthly report.

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Securing aerospace and defense-critical supply chains

Resilinc

While the DOD doesn’t specifically mention America’s hemispheric neighbors, some policymakers agree with Resilinc CEO, Bindiya Vakil, and her co-authors Tom Linton and Dale Rogers who advocate for the U.S. Most importantly, they make such supply-chain operations more costly.

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Paris 2021 – EN – Jose Bustillo

ivalua

Jose Bustillo Sourcing Excellence. Jose joined Bulgari in 2018 to lead the strategic planning, training and implementation of IVALUA for North and South America. Jose is now, part of the Global Sourcing Excellence organization led by Rome strengthening IVALUA related activities, trainings, and processes worldwide.