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Is Your Supply Chain Disruptive? Here’s What You Are Missing

Arkieva

Tips from the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference on implementing disruptive supply chain technology and managing organizational change. Is Your Supply Chain Disruptive? Here’s What You Are Missing was first posted on June 2, 2017 at 10:07 am.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 3-7, 2017)

Talking Logistics

In their June 2005 paper titled, “ The Effect of Supply Chain Disruptions on Long-term Shareholder Value, Profitability, and Share Price Volatility ,” Kevin Hendricks and Vinod Singhal report the following findings from their research: Disruptions have a negative across the board effect on stock price, profitability, and share price volatility.

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Supply Chains Disruptions at Highest Rate in 3 Years

Material Handling & Logistics

Supply chain disruptions continue to grow at an alarming rate, according to a new study, 2018 EventWatch Supply Chain Disruption Report, by Resilinc. In addition to natural disasters, factory fires continued to be a significant threat to supply chains. .

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This Week in Logistics News (October 2-6, 2017)

Talking Logistics

I’ve never given a supply chain presentation in Spanish. I’ll be doing both for the first time in a couple of weeks at Seminarium’s Logistics & Operations Conference 2017 (October 18th in Santiago, Chile). The integration of supply chain visibility solutions with real-time risk event data is a growing trend in the industry.

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Agility and flexibility in the age of digital supply chains – Insights from the 2017 Supply Chain & Logistics EMEA summit & expo

Kinaxis

The 2017 Supply Chain & Logistics EMEA summit & expo was one such opportunity. About three hundred supply chain professionals from various pockets of the world representing manufacturers, retailers, logistics providers, and technology vendors took part in the summit. It made me pause and reflect.

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Supply Chain Shortages Hit the Customer Where it Hurts

Logistics Viewpoints

However, before we go congratulating ourselves too much, supply chain shortages are still hitting the consumer where it hurts – in their wallet (and their taste buds). In October of 2019, I wrote about the food supply chain being at risk. Avian flu continues to be a thorn in the side of the poultry industry.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 24 – 30)

Logistics Viewpoints

Nike Earnings Reflect Supply Chain Disruption Complexities. In 2017, Flytrex successfully launched the world’s first fully autonomous urban drone delivery system in Reykjavik, Iceland, and we covered that initiative in these pages on June 15, 2018. Walmart Opens First of Four Next Generation Fulfillment Centers.