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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. Its software-based approach offers high configurability and efficient time-to-value to supply-chain organizations without heavy tech.

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Supply Chain Risk Management Highlighted by a Tiny Computer Chip

Enterra Insights

.” Aside from national security implications, the main lesson to be learned here is how vulnerable companies are to risks associated with their supply chains. Smith insists, “The business case for supply chain risk management investment needs to be made convincingly and robustly to justify investment.”

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Cargo Theft Continues to Rise

Logistics Viewpoints

In fact, much of the increase is due to ongoing shipment misdirection attacks, a kind of strategic cargo theft in which actors use stolen motor carrier and logistics broker identities to obtain freight and misdirect it from the intended receiver so they could steal it. Cargo Theft Tactics Cargo theft comes in many shapes and sizes.

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Global Supply Chain Volatility Continues to Moderate But Not Inventory and Warehousing Costs

Supply Chain Matters

According to the September report , growth is increasing for inventory levels, inventory and warehousing costs. Contraction trending was noted for warehousing capacity and transportation costs including an observation that inventory is being consumed at a much slower rate than observed over the last two years. for September.

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Looking Back at Our Most Popular Blog Posts of 2021

GlobalTranz

From aggregation through cross-docking, readers learned how to kickstart these five strategies and get more value from their supply chains. #6. Supply Chain Risk Management: The Challenges Driving Increased Interest in Managed Service.

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How Cargo Theft Stole Christmas

Logistics Viewpoints

Basically, when cargo is stolen, either by an individual or as part of a larger organized crime syndicate, it is cargo theft.

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

Talking Logistics

DHL launches next phase Resilience360 risk management tool to help customers avoid global disasters. December 2014 North American Freight Numbers. The company announced this week enhanced new capabilities to its risk management solution Resilience360. December 2014 North American Freight Numbers : U.S.-NAFTA