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

Logistics Viewpoints

For example, a robust supply chain may have backup power generators, firewalls, security systems, and emergency plans to prevent or mitigate the effects of disruptions. For example, an agile supply chain may have real-time data, advanced analytics, decision support tools, and cross-functional teams to monitor, diagnose, and solve problems.

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5 Outdoor Advertising Strategies!

Supply Chain Game Changer

However, LA isn’t just resting on its laurels, this innovative city has taken its billboard ads to the next level with incredible displays of creativity and artwork. For example, digital billboards have allowed advertisers to add moving elements into their visuals, upping the already eye-catching imagery immensely.

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Supply Chain and Logistics Conferences to Attend in 2015

Talking Logistics

Conferences are a great example of peer-to-peer learning in action, but with so many supply chain and logistics conferences available, how do you decide which ones to attend? The title of my presentation is Past Performance is No Guarantee of Future Results: Why Innovation Matters in a Fast-Changing World.

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The (Delayed) Rise of the Robotaxi

QAD

One of the best examples of this is the infamous story of one of Google’s Waymo cars freezing at the sight of a woman in an electric wheelchair chasing a duck around the intersection with a broom—it wasn’t prepared for that. It may be rare, but it can happen and vehicles will need to know how to respond to it. .

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This Week in Logistics News (September 29 – October 3, 2014)

Talking Logistics

Shipping startup Shyp comes to New York and soon Miami (VentureBeat). Here’s an example from the press release: A fashion retailer can now set a rule to delay offering inventory available for sale online that is selling well at full price in certain stores. enVista’s announcement last week is the latest example.

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Time to Rethink Sourcing Rare Earth Elements

Supply Chain Game Changer

Examples include difficult-to-pronounce names such as scandium and lanthanides, but what’s more important is where they are used. Lead by innovation. These Rare Earth Elements have long ago been abandoned for mining and processing here in the United States and are part of our reliance on Chinese sources of supply.

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Marketing during Crisis and Recession, Part 1

Enterra Insights

”[3] She explains, “You must add creativity and innovation to the mix. Anita Brearton ( @abrearton ), Founder and CEO of CabinetM, insists marketers need to remain adaptable and flexible regardless of the type of crisis; but, she writes, “Agility and flexibility are not enough.”[3]