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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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Supply Chain Risk Management Highlighted by a Tiny Computer Chip

Enterra Insights

Jason Koebler and Joseph Cox explain, “In the 2015 novel Ghost Fleet , the spark that starts World War III is not a nuclear bomb, but a supply chain hack. In the book — which is based on real-life technology, technical papers, and diplomatic meetings — national security and international relations expert Peter W.

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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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How to Plan for Common Disruptors in Ocean Freight

Talking Logistics

Peak season for ocean freight shipping is underway. That can make it difficult to meet your delivery times unless you take proactive steps now to minimize the risk in your supply chain. If you fail to book in time, you may miss your delivery deadlines, or will have to use an expedited shipping method to meet them.

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Weathering Future Disruptions: 8 Steps to Building Supply Chain Resilience

ivalua

But building an agile, resilient supply chain doesn’t happen overnight; it requires forethought and planning. had already been developing a supply chain risk management program and were in the midst of executing digital transformation initiatives when the crisis hit. Get the right talent in place.

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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. But it could be any supply chain assumptions that go into your planning system, such as capacities, yields, order multiples, etc.

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Risk Management in Global Ocean Context

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Written by logistics leaders who are practitioners in their respective companies, it aims to stimulate thinking on how shippers or BCO’s could view business continuity and risk in the current environment. Risk management is about our attitude towards risk, ability to appraise the situation holistically, and our ability to manage risk.