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Baltimore Bridge Collapse: An Opportunity to Reinforce the Importance of Supply Chain Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

The neighboring port in Norfolk Virginia and other east coast ports like New York City can absorb the additional traffic without many complications or delays, but this incident provides an opportunity to discuss the importance of supply chain resilience.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 30 – May 6)

Logistics Viewpoints

These sixteen states were joined by the District of Columbia, the City of New York, and a Bay Area organization. The lawsuits argue that the agency’s environmental analysis to justify spending up to $11.3 Environmental and labor groups filed separate suits. billion on the gas trucks, which only get 8.6

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Exiger Acquires Industry-Leading Software Supply Chain and SBOM Management Platform Ion Channel

Exiger Perspectives

C-SCRM completes market’s first comprehensive, centralized supply chain solution NEW YORK, NY. With the addition of Ion Channel’s SBOM capability, Exiger now offers an unprecedented depth of analysis in vendor and open-source software cyber risk. Their proprietary risk model analyzes 1.5

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Procurement in the Age of Uncertainty: 4 Lessons from the New Forrester Study

ivalua

This is a key reason for the shift towards a core platform for spend/supplier management – collaboration needs to be embedded in Source-to-Pay processes and it does not stop and end with any one process. Some suites have embedded MDM capabilities that can unify data across the enterprise and fix issues at the source.

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Supply Chain Risk Report: Ukraine-Russia Conflict

Resilinc

Oil prices have risen to well over $90 a barrel — their highest levels since 2014 — in recent days as fears of war have grown,” reported the New York Times last week. An historical analysis of past geopolitical conflicts between Russia and the West indicates that disruptions in trade may not endure long.

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New York Fashion Sustainability and Social Accountability Act: A Fashion-Forward Move to Supply Chain Transparency

Logility

With first-of-its-kind legislation, the state of New York (U.S.) The Fashion Sustainability and Social Accountability Act, if passed this spring, will require global clothing and footwear companies to disclose at least 50% of their entire supply chain, including material sourcing, greenhouse gas emissions, and labor practices. .

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Inventory Management: We Can Do Better

Supply Chain Shaman

Each day through the COVID-19 pandemic, I tune into Anthony Cuomo’s (governor of New York) daily briefings. In Table 1, I share research collected for the Supply Chains to Admire analysis on the average days of inventory by industry across the period of 2004 to 2019 by increments to match economic shifts. ”).