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What if the United States broke in half? Is Your Company Ready in the Event of a Catastrophe?

The Network Effect

The New Madrid Fault Zone stretches across Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, and Tennessee. Is Your Company Ready in the Event of a Catastrophe? The post What if the United States broke in half? appeared first on The Network Effect.

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What is Supply Chain Visibility and Why Isn’t It Enough?

Logistics Viewpoints

Let’s say visibility allows you to locate some bolts on a truck in Kansas and learn they will be late because of a raw materials shortage delaying your supplier, because one of their suppliers went bankrupt. But the opposite is not true – if you optimize one link, you have not optimized the entire supply chain. Agility to act on transparency.

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Beware the Swinging Pendulum on Supply Chain Inventory Practices

Logistics Viewpoints

She considered where she could get more, factoring in that it was Saturday night at 10:00 pm, she lived alone in Kansas City, and she’d be driving by herself. Change can creep imperceptibly, so sometimes it takes a major event to wake us up.

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Excessive heat hits the food supply chain

Resilinc

“There is an unprecedented shortage of our products … caused by several spiraling events, including unexpected crop failure from the spring chili harvest,” stated Huy Fong Foods, maker of the most popular sriracha hot sauce.

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Hurricane Harvey - Effects, Forecasts, and Operational Best Practices

Elementum

Rail freight networks operated by Kansas City Southern and Union Pacific in Texas, USA were heavily disrupted due to Hurricane Harvey, according to reports on Friday, August 25th. BNSF Railway reported that widespread flooding is causing major disruptions of service and operations in the Houston region.

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Multi-Sector Integrated Business Planning/S&OP Summit: Going?

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

You do not want to find out about it post event as the next one will not be around for another 12 months or so. Pizza Hut – the well known fast food outlet started by Dan & Frank Carney that has grown from having one store in Wichita, Kansas to being the world’s largest restaurant company.

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Faceless AI Will Not Relegate the Social Side of Business to the Past

MIT Supply Chain

We had a hard negotiation and then a really good dinner and spent time together, and we’re always seeing each other at different events. For example, Kansas-based Invista Inc., Often, it’s someone I’ve known for many years. I think that personal side is important, especially the relationships and trust that build over time.”