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Coronavirus Increases Supply Chain Risk Management Priority

Enterra Insights

For years I’ve been writing about the importance of supply chain risk management and how it’s often given short shrift in business discussions. Multi-dimensional risk planning. Today, ears are no longer deaf to the topic of supply chain risk management. Risk management.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 20-24, 2015)

Talking Logistics

Manhattan Associates Reports Record Second Quarter 2015 Performance. Ryder Reports Record Second Quarter 2015 Results. SAP Announces Second Quarter and First Half 2015 Results. The post This Week in Logistics News (July 20-24, 2015) appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

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BR Williams’ ISO 9001 Certification Journey: ISO 9001 Quality Management Certified

BR Williams Supply Chain Management

This business unit was the most recent to receive an ISO 9001:2015 certification. BR Williams has been an ISO 9001 Quality Management-certified company since 2002. In this blog post, we will take you through the significance of ISO 9001:2015 certification for BR Williams.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 7 – 13)

Logistics Viewpoints

The unemployment rate edged down slightly in February 2015, to 5.5%. While the unemployment rate for teenagers decreased 1.7% to 17.1%, the rate for adult men (5.2%) and women (4.9%) remained relatively unchanged. This is a good sign for the US economy, as jobs continue to grow. There is one area, in particular, that has […].

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Good Safety is Good Business at the LogiChem 2015 Conference

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Last week’s 2015 LogiChem conference was held in Philadelphia, PA, the birthplace of the signing of our Declaration of Independence. I always come back from these conferences inspired and fascinated at how diligent chemical supply chain managers must be to mitigate risk and adverse events. Safety and risk go hand in hand.

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Throwback Thursday

Supply Chain Shaman

As hospitals adopted consignment planning programs, inventory progress slowed. The turns are the lowest of any industry, and despite investments in technologies and processes, inventory turns have only improved 3%, and Cash-T0-Cash (C2C) cycles have declined 4%. The shift of inventory without the sharing of data is a mistake.

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Wildfires are up 30% year over year and wreaking havoc on supply chains

Resilinc

However, fires that occur far outside factory gates are becoming a greater concern for supply chain risk managers. over the last 20 years, with 2015, 2017 and 2020 seeing more than 10 million acres burned (see below chart). The Cotton 2040 report finds that half of global cotton producing regions will be at greater risk by 2040.