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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. Many of the states affected contained key ports and supply destinations, as well as transportation and logistics hubs. of total U.S.

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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. 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). 2016 – Hurricane Matthew (plus others). See 2014 side note). 2012 – Hurricane Sandy.