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Supply Chain Risk Management : The Challenges Driving Increased Interest in Managed Service

GlobalTranz

Any discussion on supply chain risk management and applying managed transportation to help prevent risks from coming to fruition is incomplete without touching on the pandemic to overcome supply chain disruption. Market Volatility Continues to Undermine Supply Chain Risk Management.

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Supply Chain Risk Management: 7 Challenges Driving Increased Interest in Managed Service

Logistics Viewpoints

Disruption has been the name of the game for more than a year as supply chain leaders have been dealing with changing buyer behaviors, inventory management challenges, labor shortages, weather and pandemic-related uncertainty, cyber security threats and capacity constraints that continue to create significant supply chain volatility.

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Retail giants crush the rush with charters, air freight

Resilinc

In the race to fill distribution centers and store shelves with inventory for the holidays, some of the world’s largest retailers and ecommerce sellers are jumping ahead of smaller competitors by chartering ships, shifting freight to air, re-rerouting inland shipments, and hiring more staff for distribution centers and other supply chain nodes.

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This Week In Supply Chain Management Tech April 4 2023

Supply Chain Matters

Our latest update features discernable supply chain consulting along with supply chain technology acquisition developments. According to the announcement, Spinnaker CEO John Sharkey and his team will serve as the foundation of a new digital supply chain practice at Publicis.

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The Advantage of Speed: The Cooper Health Supply Chain Relies Upon Real-time Risk Alerts

Logistics Viewpoints

The Cooper University Health Care Supply Chain Cooper University Health Care is the leading academic health system in southern New Jersey. The system provides access to primary, specialty, tertiary, and urgent care. Operating a smoothly running supply chain for a system with that number of sites is challenging.

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Supply chain risks: The knowable unknowns that can hurt your supply chain!

Kinaxis

The new CEO embarked on several cost reduction initiatives in conjunction with a number of changes (some may argue too fast and too soon) on how the company operates its freight-trains. This has led to increased costs, not to mention all the inventory stuck in-transit. I used lead time as an example here.

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Navigating Global Supply Chain Disruptions: Strategies for Resilience

SCMDOJO

The price of container freight rates surged while the entire world was having to deal with delays. Hackers can gain access to entire backend systems, and even turn industries like airlines to a halt. As more industries face ransomware attacks, it’s a good idea for any supply chain company to hire cyber experts to prevent disruptions.