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

Logistics Viewpoints

Cooper liked the massive amount of data that Interos could access, the user friendliness of the solution, its supply chain visualization tools, the ability to detect problems across an extended supply chain of n-tier suppliers, and the ability to use the solution to operationalize responses to events.

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Digitisation: Shifting Gears in 2021

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Consumers demand more transparency, governments wish to ensure homeland security, and supply chain stakeholders are seeking higher levels of visibility for optimisation and increased resiliency. Suddenly, digital tools, like video conferencing became mainstream. Planning tools stopped providing reliable results.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 23-27, 2015)

Talking Logistics

Moving on to this week’s supply chain and logistics news… Target Lowers Free Shipping Minimum to $25 for Online Orders. DHL launches next phase Resilience360 risk management tool to help customers avoid global disasters. December 2014 North American Freight Numbers. NAFTA freight totaled $95.8

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Analyzing Supply Chain Risk

Enterra Insights

A decade ago, supply chain analyst Trevor Miles ( @milesahead ) wrote, “I almost feel that we should be shouting ‘Vuka’ which in Xhosa (one of the South Africa languages) means ‘wake up.’ 2] His warning begs the question: How can supply chain risk managers wake up? One answer is advanced analytics.

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Hurricane Florence, Disaster Recovery Logistics Planning and TMS Solutions

Supply Chain Collaborator

TMS solutions and associated logistics IT tools are a critical part of any successful volume shipper’s supply chain risk management plan. There will be no avoiding the premium pricing of the spot market as delivery of this freight is crucial to saving lives.