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Supply Chain Disruptions Are New Opportunities – LogiSYM October/November 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Unlike SARS in 2003, the Covid-19 pandemic has spawned an unprecedented Global health pandemic. It even took authorities some time to recognise the vital importance of warehouse logistics, supply chain continuity, truck drivers and other transport operators. SUPPLY CHAIN DISRUPTION—Respond, Recover and Regrow.

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Ooh, Scary Stuff, Kids. Tales from the Supply Chain Crypt.

Kinaxis

In September 1999, candy giant Hershey Foods former CEO and Chairman told Wall Street analysts that the company was having trouble with its new order-taking and distribution computer system. Hershey’s Halloween nightmare. Guess what happened then? It was about the norm according to research shared in the World Economic Forum Report.