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

Logistics Viewpoints

According to a widely cited framework by Christopher and Peck from “Building the Resilient Supply Chain” (2004), supply chain resilience consists of four dimensions: robustness, agility, redundancy, and flexibility. These dimensions are briefly defined and illustrated below.

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Innovation with Reverse Logistics (Part 1 of 2)”.

ModusLink Corporation

SME’s (Small/Medium Enterprises) often struggle to effectively manage their Supply Chain due to limited capacity and resources. It has its first definition published only in the beginning of the nineties by the Council of Logistics Management (Bri-2004, S. A popular solution to this can be given in the form of Outsourcing.

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The March of the Lemmings.

Supply Chain Shaman

The first report was published when I working at AMR Research (now Gartner) in 2004. As a result, the company, at the end of the five-year implementation, is unable to roll-up data to a corporate level to analyze the forecast or capacity planning. The Research. . Top line results of recent research on S&OP processes? The reason?

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Re-thinking the Strategic National Stockpile

NC State SCRC

The majority of the people working within it were inventory logisticians, not supply chain logisticians. In 2017, the composition of the SNS inventory was largely determined by the Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures Enterprise (PHEMCE), which issued a strategic plan outlining the key areas for inventory investment.

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US Economy Still Growing But at Slower Pace

Material Handling & Logistics

Inputs, expressed as supplier deliveries, inventories and imports, were negatively impacted by weather conditions; Asian holidays; lead time extensions; steel and aluminum disruptions across many industries; supplier labor issues; and transportation difficulties due to driver and equipment shortages.

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Global PMI Levels in July Remain of Concern

Supply Chain Matters

Morgan indicated in part: “ Near-term forward looking indicators also headed lower, most notably the finished goods orders-to-inventory ratio which fell further below 1,0 from an already contractionary reading.” The overall pace of decline was noted as the steepest since this particular survey began in April 2004. from the 44.8

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How the Semiconductor Shortage Could Have Been Averted

QAD

The chip manufacturers began shifting their manufacturing capacity to these other industry sectors who were now begging for supply. Insufficient inventory visibility throughout the supply chain. The first version of the MMOG/LE assessment was introduced in 2004 and is in its fifth revision today.