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Innovative Approaches to Supply Chain Risk

Kinaxis

A major earthquake in Taiwan. We have a problem.” The alternate source uses the same supplier in Taiwan. Inventory management Supply chain risk management IBM Japan Natural disaster Risk management Supply chain Taiwan Thailand' As you flip through the articles on your iPad, you see it. Then you get the e-mail.

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Home Delivery Robots: Last Mile Gamechangers

Logistics Viewpoints

Starship Technologies was launched in 2014 by Skype co-founders Ahit Heinla and Janus Friis. Over the past five years, the company has expanded its footprint and its home delivery robots have made more than 200,000 deliveries in the cities of San Jose, Santa Monica, Denver, and Dallas, as well as Taipei, Taiwan, and Medellin, Columbia.

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Holding Ourselves Accountable for Business Results

Supply Chain Shaman

Enterprise resilience–the ability to have consistent balance sheet returns despite market volatility– decreased starting in 2014. Nvidia, PACCAR Inc, Ross Stores, Sleep Number, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) Company, Tempur Sealy, TJX Companies, and Western Digital. The reality is very different.

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Extreme weather is risky business for supply chains

Resilinc

To provide faster analyses, climate scientists from Europe, the United States and India partnered in 2014 with the Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre to form World Weather Attribution. The results were sobering: 93% of the sites in China and Taiwan were experiencing increases in climate variability consistent with IPCC forecasts.

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Prep Your Supply Chain for Super Typhoon Soudelor

Elementum

Super Typhoon Soudelor is set to hit Taiwan and China tomorrow, with a huge potential for supply chain disruption. Update 8/7/2015, 04:00 PST: Typhoon Soudelor Disrupts Air, Rail Services in Taiwan Air and land transportation services in Taiwan have been halted since Friday, August 7, as Typhoon Soudelor moves closer to the region.

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Google Robots and the Rewiring of Automation

MIT Supply Chain

The article also draws on the recent Supply Chain @ MIT blog post Crossroads 2014: Dances with Robots, about new advances in scheduling robots on the factory floor. Moreover, the online giant is collaborating with Taiwan-based contract manufacturer Foxconn on the development of robot systems.

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What Were the Top 5 Supply Chain Disruptions of 2015

RFgen

A hurricane or typhoon was the third-most impactful disruption in 2014. Typhoon Rammasun: The Asian seaboard experienced more natural disasters in 2014 than any other continent, as Typhoon Rammasun last June impacted 36 sites, which took 26 weeks to fully recover from the damages. billion in Vietnam and China.