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Supply Chain Risk Management with Barry Conlon

The Logistics of Logistics

Barry Conlon and Joe Lynch discuss supply chain risk management, which is exactly what Barry and his team at Overhaul provide to Fortune 100 companies across the world. Its software-based approach offers high configurability and efficient time-to-value to supply-chain organizations without heavy tech.

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Life Sciences and the Journey to Supply Chain Resilience: A Q&A with Craig Fix

Resilinc

I have nearly 30 years of experience as a global procurement and supply chain leader in High-Tech and Life Sciences. I’ve seen an increase in the number of large and medium-sized Life Sciences companies that are investing in supply chain risk management.

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Identity Theft, Trucking Style

Talking Logistics

Then the con artists offer low bids to freight brokers who handle shipping for numerous companies. According to a September 2013 white paper published by CargoNet and the Cargo Security Alliance , 8 percent of cargo thefts in 2013 (as of August 31, 2013) were due to fictitious pick-ups, up from 5 percent in 2011. Be Sociable, Share!

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Whitman School Collaborates with Staples to Analyze Supply Chain Management Opportunities Sparking Millennial Interest

GlobalTranz

In the second project, Whitman faculty and students are developing a new risk assessment methodology in order to assess the risk exposure in the entire Staples supply chain. The work brings out a new perspective in supply chain risk management. Supply Chain supply chain management'

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Analyzing Supply Chain Risk

Enterra Insights

A decade ago, supply chain analyst Trevor Miles ( @milesahead ) wrote, “I almost feel that we should be shouting ‘Vuka’ which in Xhosa (one of the South Africa languages) means ‘wake up.’ 2] His warning begs the question: How can supply chain risk managers wake up? One answer is advanced analytics.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 28 – September 1, 2017)

Talking Logistics

August is usually a quiet month for supply chain and logistics news, but not this year, especially the past couple of weeks. Freight Companies Scramble to Reroute Goods in Wake of Harvey (WSJ – sub. a world-class provider of freight forwarding, customs brokerage and surface transportation in Canada.”

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This Week in Logistics News (October 27-31, 2014)

Talking Logistics

FedEx Freight Reports Teamsters Withdraw Petition at North Harrisburg Facility. As I’ve written about before, social networking can play an important role in supply chain risk management. earthquake hit [in August 2011], the first Twitter reports sent from people at the epicenter began almost instantly at 1:51 p.m.—and