article thumbnail

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.

Baltimore 250
article thumbnail

Using Digital Supply Chain Planning to Respond to Market-Changing Disruptions like COVID-19

ToolsGroup

Examples of this include expediting with LTL and air freight and costly in-network transfers from warehouse to warehouse–all of which erode profit margins. Being able to understand if supply expected from Europe needs to be re-routed and sourced from Asia or South America is important when entire channels become unavailable.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

5 Tools to Increase Student Engagement!

Supply Chain Game Changer

For example, learning about South America, you can add home videos or presentations by individual students as the lesson is being created. For example, solutions like Google Classroom make it possible to assign certain roles to students like planning and adding blog posts to relevant school projects.

article thumbnail

A Logistics Conversation with Arcadia Cold, Part 1

BlueYonder

One example is seafood: we could have seafood that is caught in the North Pacific that is brought to the U.S. over to Asia for example, where they further process seafood into a consumer-packaged unit and then it is shipped back to the U.S. for storage. Another type of seafood can be shipped in a container from the U.S.

article thumbnail

Supply Chain and Logistics Conferences to Attend in 2019

Talking Logistics

although some are in Europe, South America, and Asia. 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? Most of the conferences on our list are in the U.S.,

article thumbnail

Securing aerospace and defense-critical supply chains

Resilinc

While the DOD doesn’t specifically mention America’s hemispheric neighbors, some policymakers agree with Resilinc CEO, Bindiya Vakil, and her co-authors Tom Linton and Dale Rogers who advocate for the U.S. A vivid example: drones.

article thumbnail

Reflections on Hard Hats and Safety Shoes…

Supply Chain Shaman

Let me give you an example. When the added costs of transportation and inventory working capital impacts are added, there is a solid logic to bringing manufacturing back to North America. Mexico has become more attractive, and many companies are looking at alternative sourcing in Latin and South America.