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This Week In Supply Chain Management Tech April 4 2023

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Risk Management Provider Avetta Acquired Stockholm based private equity firm EQT has reportedly agreed to acquire supply chain risk management software technology and managed services provider Avetta from existing private equity owners Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe ( WCAS ).

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This Week in Logistics News (June 23-27, 2014)

Talking Logistics

In other news… Supply Chain Risk Management Now a Priority for Most Businesses ( Accenture ). Several reports have been published in recent years underscoring the growing importance of supply chain risk management. Another example of the wrinkles in our lives , and how we respond to them.

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2024 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains- Prediction One

Supply Chain Matters

Global trade was reportedly set to contract by 5 percent in 2023 compared to 2002, amounting to upwards of $30.7 Manufacturing and Supply Chain Activity Levels- Global-wide manufacturing levels as depicted in the J.P. Morgan Global Manufacturing PMI® ended 2023 on a noted lackluster footing.

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Realties of Declining Global Trade and Transport Rates More Evident

Supply Chain Matters

The Drewy World Container Index , which stood at $9,304 per 40-foot container at the beginning of 2022, was reported as $2,120 by the end of 2002. Our specific prediction was that manufacturers and retailers will exercise considerable pressure on carriers for re-negotiating existing transportation and logistics contracts.

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Whew! It Is Finally Happening.

Supply Chain Shaman

In the period of 2000-2002, when I was at Gartner, I watched the evolution of a model that I violently disagreed with. I could not condone investment in ERP as the path forward to building end-to-end value chains. The active surveys in the field are listed below: Supply Chain Risk Management.

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Professor Yossi Sheffi on Resilience, Visibility, and Biggest Risks this Holiday Season

Elementum

He is an expert in systems optimization, risk analysis, and supply chain management, which are the subjects he teaches and researches at MIT. His latest book, The Power of Resilience: How the Best Companies Manage the Unexpected , was released this month. Operations managers now must be more discerning.

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Still Think Dangerous Goods is Just Paperwork and Labels?

Talking Logistics

The prosecution was brought by [the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority] under the air navigation (dangerous goods) regulations 2002. As I wrote more than three years ago in A New Era for Global Trade Management Software? : It outlines how dangerous goods must be handled when transported by air.