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Supply Chain Risk Management: Could You Face a Category 4 Supply Chain Disaster?

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by Joe Cannata With Hurricane Matthew, the most powerful storm to threaten the Atlantic Coast in over 10 years that has already brought severe damage to Haiti, the Bahamas and several Southeastern U.S. In 2015, the Port of Savannah moved 8.2% states, obvious disruptions to supply chains and supply chain risk management were a given.

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Good-bye siloed, functional planner. Hello storm chasing network planner.

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2015 – Nepal earthquake, 7.8 2010 – Haiti earthquake. They may be too busy looking at constraint challenges or alternate sources of supply. It would be easy to talk climate change and the causes behind them but that would be irrelevant to this discussion. Let’s just look at some events: 2017 – Hurricane Irma (plus others).