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Supply Chain Risk Management Highlighted by a Tiny Computer Chip

Enterra Insights

Jason Koebler and Joseph Cox explain, “In the 2015 novel Ghost Fleet , the spark that starts World War III is not a nuclear bomb, but a supply chain hack. Singer suggests that Chinese-made microchips embedded in our appliances, devices, satellites, fighter jets, war ships, and tanks could turn against us.”[1]

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The 8 Personas of Highly Effective Leaders

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

When I joined the profession 3 decades ago, as a newly minted engineer, supply chain folks were seen as ‘backroom boys’ (yes, there were virtually no women then). We were expected to stay in our silos and focus on ‘making, packing, shipping’ flawlessly. But took the blame when supply disruptions affected the business.

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Top Talking Logistics Posts & Episodes (Q1 2016)

Talking Logistics

Thanks to all of you — our readers, social media followers, and sponsors — we’re having a great year so far (pageviews are up 46 percent this quarter compared to the same period in 2015 and we have almost 75,000 followers on LinkedIn), and we have many more great episodes, posts, and other content planned for the weeks and months ahead.

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

Resilinc

Over the last several years, factory fires have ranked as one of the most common types of disruptive supply chain events: in 2020 1,000 factory fires were tracked by Resilinc’s EventWatch monitoring system. However, fires that occur far outside factory gates are becoming a greater concern for supply chain risk managers.

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All I Want in My Easter Basket is a Supply Chain Planning System of Record

Logility

In many cases you will discover that processes like demand, inventory, replenishment, and manufacturing planning are limited by a lack of software capability. Poor planning solutions lead to work-arounds, fat fingering, inefficient management and ineffective collaboration with partners.

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

Kinaxis

states, obvious disruptions to supply chains and supply chain risk management were a given. Many of the states affected contained key ports and supply destinations, as well as transportation and logistics hubs. In 2015, the Port of Savannah moved 8.2% These ports accounted for 18.3%

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Predictive Analytics: Supply Chain’s Cloudy Crystal Ball

Enterra Insights

.” Timothy King ( @BigData_Review ), Senior Editor at Solutions Review , reports, “According to new research commissioned by MHI and Deloitte, predictive analytics is quickly becoming a staple technology for the supply chain. … It all comes down to the ability to use predictive analytics to manage supply chain risk.”[6].