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Supply Chain Risk Management in 2024: A Forward Look with Tom Linton

Resilinc

Accomplished procurement veteran and author Tom Linton provides valuable insights into the supply chain risk management landscape in 2024 in this exclusive Q&A. As we move into the new year, there are many questions on our minds about the future of the supply chain. Tom: Supply chains are about time.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 27 – March 3, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Boston startup raises $10M for retail software that predicts inventory needs (Boston Business Journal). Trans-Soft Announces Strategic Investment in Supply Vision. Two MIT professors, Vivek Farias and Devavrat Shah, founded Celect in 2013 based on research they had done around how to model the purchasing choices consumers make.

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A Brief History of B2B Data Sharing – and What’s In Store

NC State SCRC

Over the decades, EDI standards emerged that cover a variety of supply chain artifacts and activities , from Purchase Orders & Acknowledgements (EDI 850 & 855) to Invoices (EDI 810) to Shipping Manifests (EDI 856). Finding toilet paper resembled a Hunger Games quest.

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The Annual State of U.S. Logistics Report – Added Candidness and Need for More Synchronization

Supply Chain Matters

entities as opposed to foreign owned entities such as global shipping and logistics companies. As inventory-to-sales ratios dropped to near record lows, inter-modal logistics networks were forced to try to manage and synchronize essentially just-in-time material movements which were out of sync in many important dimensions.

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Travel to Compliance and Efficiency with Supply Chain Mapping

RFgen

According to ICE, from 2003 to 2009, Sabre falsified shipping documents, used false bottoms on crates and lied on business records. Relying on simple Excel spreadsheets won’t give brands the insight they need to ensure they adhere to regulations, which is why supply chain mapping tools are so important.

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Travel to Compliance and Efficiency with Supply Chain Mapping

RFgen

According to ICE, from 2003 to 2009, Sabre falsified shipping documents, used false bottoms on crates and lied on business records. Relying on simple Excel spreadsheets won’t give brands the insight they need to ensure they adhere to regulations, which is why supply chain mapping tools are so important.

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Three Supply Chain Risk Management Lessons You Can Learn from the Suez Canal Block

CH Robinson Transportfolio

The Ever Given vessel is floating, but the ship is not out of hot water. Although the cargo on the Ever Given is still at a standstill, other ships have been able to freely move through the canal over the past few weeks. Although the Suez Canal handles only 13% of global trade, its blockage rippled through the supply chain worldwide.