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This Week in Supply Chain Tech January 23, 2024

Supply Chain Matters

In this special edition of Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Technology , we provide a follow-up on a prior announcement of added capabilities being planned for Amazon Web Services, Inc. AWS) Supply Chain. AWS Supply Chain N-Tier Visibility is now available to customers in US East (N.

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3 Ways to Get the Supply Chain Ready for Disaster

RFgen

Disaster preparedness is essential in the supply chain. With Houston largely unavailable from a commerce perspective, businesses can no longer rely on their supply, transport and warehouse networks in the area. This type of disaster can be incredibly damaging to a business by limiting its ability to sustain its supply chain.

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3 Ways to Get the Supply Chain Ready for Disaster

RFgen

Disaster preparedness is essential in the supply chain. With Houston largely unavailable from a commerce perspective, businesses can no longer rely on their supply, transport and warehouse networks in the area. This type of disaster can be incredibly damaging to a business by limiting its ability to sustain its supply chain.

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3 Ways to Spot Supplier Risk in Communication

GlobalTranz

This break down in supplier communication can introduce various risk factors into your supply chain. For example, your contact may have quoted a new job at a certain rate, but the official documentation says otherwise. Do they lack the man-power or technology to field incoming communications and respond accurately and promptly?

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This Week in Logistics News (February 18-22, 2013)

Talking Logistics

In addition, users are able to view events of a shipment, imaged documents, and can email their account representative with questions on a particular move. This is also another example of how the lines between 3PLs and technology companies continue to blur.

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3 Transport Topics Headlines Validate the UltraShipTMS Approach

Supply Chain Collaborator

Here’s a fun fact: “Ultra” means “beyond” in Latin and was selected as a name for the company and the software expressly because the mission has always been to produce solutions that extend visibility and control far beyond the business needs of transportation alone.