Enterra Insights

JUNE 9, 2020

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. Supply chain vulnerability shouldn’t have been hard to spot. Today, ears are no longer deaf to the topic of supply chain risk management.

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Arena Solutions

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Supply Chain Disruptions Since COVID, supply chain issues continue to negatively impact manufacturing. According to a recent Deloitte survey 3 , ongoing supply chain disruptions cut profits for manufacturing companies by as much as 13%. Meeting the Challenge of Supply Chain Disruption.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Moving on to this week’s supply chain and logistics news… Target Lowers Free Shipping Minimum to $25 for Online Orders. Cass Truckload Linehaul Index – January 2015. A new country-specific risk page will also provide customers with an overview of supply chain relevant risk scores and incident trends.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Why is supply chain risk management important? Over the past two years, I’ve addressed those questions in various posts (see links below), but you have to look no further than Chipotle’s Q4 2015 financial results for the answers. Why should CEOs and CFOs care? Compared to Q4 2014: Revenue decreased 6.8%

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 26, 2024

and Israeli startups focused on logistics, the supply chain and customer fulfillment. The disruptions are at a key point for ships passing through the Suez Canal and are creating ripples across supply chains in Europe and the U.S., But fallout to global supply chains from Panama’s drought is far from over.

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Elementum

JULY 14, 2016

So how will this impact global supply chains? In 2015, Shanghai’s average pollution was double the recommended level listed by WHO. This measure was enacted to minimize pollution before the arrival of world leaders for the event.

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Elementum

JULY 14, 2016

So how will this impact global supply chains? In 2015, Shanghai’s average pollution was double the recommended level listed by WHO. This measure was enacted to minimize pollution before the arrival of world leaders for the event.

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Elementum

MAY 1, 2018

Supply chain disruptions are inevitable, whether resulting from natural disasters, technical failures, worker strikes, or other unforeseen incidents. What can supply chain managers do to ensure that action is taken quickly and efficiently when disruption strikes? Identify Risks in Your Supply Chain.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 6, 2015

New JDA Capabilities Help to Deliver a Seamless Response to Supply Chain Disruptions. Ports Gridlock Reshapes the Supply Chain (WSJ – sub. Descartes Reports Fiscal 2015 Fourth Quarter and Annual Financial Results. Uber acquires mapping startup deCarta (Mashable).

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Proxima

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Inefficient cybersecurity poses one of the biggest threats to corporate supply chains. We tend to associate cyber-attacks as scams on core technology impacting data security, bank accounts, pensions, or our ability to access certain websites, but technology is a critical component across the supply network.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 9, 2023

Last week’s announced recall of in-service Pratt & Whitney’s Geared Turbofan (GTF) engines is likely to have yet another impact for commercial aircraft industry supply chain efforts to ramp-up monthly production. Bob Ferrari © Copyright 2023, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 31, 2019

.” Lora Cecere ( @lcecere ), founder and CEO of Supply Chain Insights, believes too many supply chain professionals have forgotten the fundamentals of planning in the digital age. It drives a supply chain planning gal like me crazy.”[1] ”[2] Outside in planning is all about the data.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 30, 2016

It was back in January 2015, after reading an article in the Wall Street Journal about bitcoin, that my eyes were opened to the potential for blockchain technology to transform supply chain management. As I wrote at the time in Bitcoin: A New Supply Chain Operating System?

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Elementum

JUNE 7, 2022

The baby formula shortage shows executives need to stop thinking of supply chain management as a cost center and start treating it like a profit-maker. Ripe as each of these avenues of exploration might be, we’re going to look at this story strictly through the lens of the supply chain.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Often, unexpected events such as suppliers failing to deliver, software glitches and even Mother Nature can wreak havoc with even the best supply chains. In October 2015, it was a frightening thought for fans of falls’ favorite flavor. Have you got scary supply chain stories to share? Was the 8% unusually high?

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SCM Research

JANUARY 26, 2015

Trends in management towards a concentration on core competencies and outsourcing of non-core activities have created complex networks, i.e., global supply chains. Based on survey data, the authors find that all of these three drivers increase the frequency of supply chain disruptions. Bode, C., & Wagner, S.

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BR Williams Supply Chain Management

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Today, BR Williams has become a multifaceted logistics and supply chain management powerhouse, with around 300 employees and over 2,000,000 square feet of warehousing and distribution space dedicated to the supply chain. This business unit was the most recent to receive an ISO 9001:2015 certification.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 22, 2018

The speed of business is now computer speed and supply chains need to run at the same speed as the rest of the business. Supply chain professionals are not as interested in how cognitive technologies work as they are in what cognitive technologies can do for them. The Benefits of Cognitive Technologies.

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Elementum

MAY 1, 2018

Supply chain disruptions are inevitable, whether resulting from natural disasters, technical failures, worker strikes, or other unforeseen incidents. What can supply chain managers do to ensure that action is taken quickly and efficiently when disruption strikes? Identify Risks in Your Supply Chain.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Well, my big audacious prediction for 2015 did not come true. And more companies are treating Supply Chain Design as a continuous business process instead of a standalone project or a once-a-year exercise (see Supply Chain Design: Growing Scope, Community, and Collaboration ). What will happen in 2016?

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Logility

APRIL 10, 2017

Supply chain professionals are asked on a daily basis for what can seem like miracles: improve customer service and reduce costs, do more with less. Specifically, what does your supply chain team use to manage supply chain planning? When a disruption takes place (e.g. So what’s the answer?

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 11, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights reports indicating that Europe based Airbus will double China based aircraft final assembly output by 2024. In a Supply Chain Matters posting in July 2022 , we highlighted the announcement of a bulk order for a total of 392 Airbus A320neo aircraft from three China based airlines.

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Logility

JANUARY 22, 2016

To be fair, it’s nearly impossible to predict what will turn out to be the biggest challenges supply chain leaders will encounter in the year ahead. Millions of supply chains face unique challenges that vary across industries, geographies and business strategies. Increased Disruptions.

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Supply Chain Movement

MAY 28, 2015

Contents Supply Chain Movement 17 – 2015 Q2. Publishing date: 15 May 2015. – Launch of Supply Chain Professionals Club in Turkey. – Supply chain disruption reported as the fastest rising threat. 12 | Supply Chain Journey: demand driven on command.

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Elementum

AUGUST 10, 2015

Super Typhoon Soudelor is set to hit Taiwan and China tomorrow, with a huge potential for supply chain disruption. Update 8/10/2015, 06:16 PST: Soudelor Prompts Authorities to Issue Emergency Alert in China. Update 8/09/2015, 18:03 PST: Tropical Storm Soudelor to Hit South Korea on August 11.

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Parade

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In addition, the importance of freight brokers to the economy has been further underscored over the last two years due to the wild swings in supply chain disruptions and the challenges in finding available trucks. Preet, Tony, and I founded Parade in 2015 with the mission to enable and connect the transportation industry.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

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. Supply chain segmentation.

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EcoVadis

MAY 17, 2018

The first inspection was conducted as a pilot project in 2015 in Hebei, the most polluted province in China. Not only tier-1, but also tier-2 and tier-3 suppliers were impacted as the risk has extended further down the supply chain. billion loss to the company and major supply chain disruptions in the global aluminium market.

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RFgen

DECEMBER 3, 2015

There are numerous benefits to taking a supply chain global. Different territories may provide more cost-efficient supplies for manufacturing. A company that does business globally needs flexible supply chain logistics management solutions to avoid the consequences of geopolitical risks.

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RFgen

DECEMBER 3, 2015

There are numerous benefits to taking a supply chain global. Different territories may provide more cost-efficient supplies for manufacturing. A company that does business globally needs flexible supply chain logistics management solutions to avoid the consequences of geopolitical risks.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Supply Chain Matters updates readers on breaking news related to commercial aircraft engine producer Pratt & Whitney’s GTF aircraft engine flaws that are subject to added inspections and repairs. Bob Ferrari © Copyright 2023, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

AUGUST 17, 2021

For global freight shippers, managing disruption comes with the job. Supply chain disruptions that consist of port and terminal congestion, shipping delays due to high cargo volumes, lack of labor due to Covid-19 and limited space have caused a myriad of challenges for shippers.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 24, 2016

A beautiful woman passed away this morning, my wife’s aunt who we all loved, so I will be brief with my comments about this week’s supply chain and logistics news. HighJump Adds Supply Chain Analytics to Enterprise Software Suite. trillion in 2015, a 2.6 Logistics in Transition: U.S. Which one are you?

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Elementum

JANUARY 4, 2018

Supply Chain Disruptions. But given the extreme conditions of this bomb cyclone, it may replicate the scenario faced by the region in 2015, where refineries were abruptly shut down due to glitches. Warnings have been issued along the coast about imminent power outages.

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Supply Chain Trend

AUGUST 13, 2020

Preview In his 2019 Foresight article, Niels van Hove examined eight technological hurdles that must be overcome to enable autonomous or ‘lights out’ supply-chain planning. He reasoned that to support such planning we need to implement a third wave of integrated supply-chain planning software.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 1, 2016

A 2005 study on the impact of supply chain disruptions revealed there is significant damage to a company’s financials and brand when a crisis or stoppage occurs. The report shows, for example, that firms suffering from supply chain disruption experience 33% to 40% lower stock returns compared to their peers.

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TMC

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

There are many ways to measure supply chain performance in terms of resilience, but there is one that’s easily overlooked even though it is gaining in importance: Detection time. In other words, the amount of warning time during which the company can prepare for and mitigate the disruption. Watching the weather is one option.

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