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Supply Chain Risk: It’s Not Whether Severe Weather, but When

Enterra Insights

”[5] Austin Becker, a maritime infrastructure resilience scholar at the University of Rhode Island, told Leslie, the pandemic is “a temporary problem,” while climate change is “long-term dire” problem. The previous record for billion-dollar events in a year was 16, in 2017 and 2011. In 2021, the U.S.

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Crowdsourcing and Collaborative Logistics: Insights from the Annual WERC Conference

FLEXE

Last week I had the pleasure of attending the annual WERC (Warehouse Education Research Council) conference in Providence, Rhode Island. And companies like FLEXE that enable businesses to acquire and expand warehouse space anywhere on demand. We look forward to seeing everyone at WERC 2017!

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Crowdsourcing and Collaborative Logistics: Insights from the Annual WERC Conference

FLEXE

<p>Last week I had the pleasure of attending the annual <a href="[link] target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">WERC</a> (Warehouse Education Research Council) conference in Providence, Rhode Island.