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This Week in Logistics News (March 23 – 29)

Logistics Viewpoints

In the early morning hours of April 26, at approximately 1:35am, a cargo ship leaving Baltimore Harbor struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge, triggering a catastrophic collapse of the 1.6-mile-long The end result of the loss of propulsion was the ship crashing into the bridge. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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What is Supply Chain Decision Support? Are We Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic?

Supply Chain Shaman

Supply management. Supply chain management. Supply chain planning. The lack of interoperability between decision support platforms is a problem for companies attempting to improve decisions from the channel to supplier bi-directionally through technology. Are these terms the same? The answer is no.

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Using Technology to build Sustainable Supply Chains

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

In fact, IDC predicts that manufacturers across Asia who digitally transform and accelerate sustainable innovation to improve supply chain operations, will increase their revenue by 20 percent in 2025. For reasons of climate change and profitability rewards, maintaining a more sustainable approach to the supply chain is obvious.

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Industry Transformation: Advanced Manufacturing and Digitalisation of Supply Chain-Logistics

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The Covid-19 pandemic severely exacerbated the shock to the Global economy.Global and Regional Trade and related Supply chains experienced unprecedented disruptions. International Airports and Ports almost came to a standstill as the worlds international airline fleets were grounded and maritime shipping disrupted and stalled.

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Key Ingredients to a Synchronized Food and Beverage Supply Chain

QAD

Updated: April 4, 2024 Published: July 17, 2021 In today’s competitive food and beverage marketplace, events occur and challenges arise that impact the normal course of business. In essence, today, these are for the most part just part of the normal day to day business of food manufacturing.

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Supply Chain Risk Management with Barry Conlon

The Logistics of Logistics

Barry Conlon and Joe Lynch discuss supply chain risk management, which is exactly what Barry and his team at Overhaul provide to Fortune 100 companies across the world. Barry is a dedicated supply chain security professional with more than 30 years of experience within that discipline.

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Supply Chain Resilience. Really?

Supply Chain Shaman

Today, I speak at the North American Manufacturing Association, Manufacturing Leadership Conference, in Nashville on the use of data to improve supply chain resilience. Background The Council of Supply Chain Resilience met for the first time this month. What is supply chain resilience? The reason?