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Supply Chain Risk Management Highlighted by a Tiny Computer Chip

Enterra Insights

.” Aside from national security implications, the main lesson to be learned here is how vulnerable companies are to risks associated with their supply chains. Smith insists, “The business case for supply chain risk management investment needs to be made convincingly and robustly to justify investment.”

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Time to Survive and Nexus Supplier Index: New Measures of Supply Chain Risk Management

Talking Logistics

Over the past two years, I’ve written extensively about the growing importance of supply chain risk management and supply chain mapping. See for example: Rethinking Supply Chain Risk Management. Doing Nothing on Supply Chain Risk Management.

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Supply Chain Risk Management: How SaaS-Based, Collaborative Platforms Provide Business Continuity

Turvo

Global supply chain risk management continues to evolve and embodies a consideration of possibilities and outcomes by supply chain executives totaling in the millions. That’s where the crossroads of a tech-driven approach to solving the challenges of supply chain risk management lie.

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Achieving Maturity in Risk Management Takes Years

Logistics Viewpoints

Supply Chain Risk Management Solution from riskmethods. If I was asked to vote for the most interesting solution set that has come to the fore over the last few years, my vote would be for supply chain risk management solutions. Supply Chain Risk Management Vendors.

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5 New Year’s Resolutions for Supply Chain & Logistics Executives

Talking Logistics

If you’re a supply chain or logistics executive and you’re looking for ways to improve as a leader this year, here are my five recommendations: 1. Ask “What are the risks?”more Supply chain management is risky business — and the risks are growing every day. more often.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 27-31, 2014)

Talking Logistics

Ratings for President Obama’s “State of the Union” address were the lowest since 2000 , but if you tuned in, he raised a couple of points related to supply chain and logistics. This process requires the collection, organization, filing and retention of well over one million documents annually [emphasis mine],” Wal-mart said.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 4-8, 2016)

Talking Logistics

In the meantime, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: EU Approves FedEx Acquisition of TNT Express ( WSJ – sub. INTTRA Collaborates with JDA Software for Streamlined Transportation Management. Note: GT Nexus and JDA Software are Talking Logistics sponsors.