article thumbnail

Resilience and Agility in Supply Chains: Navigating Change in a Dynamic World

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Resilience and Agility in Supply Chains: Navigating Change in a Dynamic World Feature Article by J eroen Hendriks , Director at Art of Supply Chain Sdn Bhd The global business landscape has become increasingly complex and volatile, posing significant challenges to supply chain management.

article thumbnail

Molex Prizes Agility

Logistics Viewpoints

But Molex, a global electronics and connectivity solutions company, has been investing in their intelligent digital supply chain strategy to improve their supply chain agility and customer experience. The Molex global supply chain is complex. The data from Infor Nexus also helps the transportation teams do better carrier sourcing.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Trends 2023: Technology

Enterra Insights

reports that global connectivity is predicted to improve significantly during the coming year. These increasingly important solutions include renewable sources such as solar power and wind power, sustainable fuels such as hydrogen, long-duration battery systems, and smart grids.” 4] Marc Emmer , President of Optimize Inc.,

article thumbnail

This Week in Logistics News (August 28 – September 1, 2017)

Talking Logistics

LevaData to Transform Strategic Sourcing for Global Procurement and Supply Chain Leaders. Iceland Gets On-Demand Drone Deliveries (BloombergTechnology). Robinson with truck brokerage, which is its largest business segment by revenue, but Global Forwarding is its growth engine. Convey Closes $8.25 Most people equate C.H.

article thumbnail

Supply Chain Resilience Core Capacities

MIT Supply Chain

However, in global supply chains, a local disruption can quickly escalate into a global impact. For example, the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull volcano eruption in Iceland caused a primary loss of freight transportation capacity, but that loss also robbed many companies of supply capacity. Source: James B.

article thumbnail

Let’s Embrace New Ways of Working

Supply Chain Shaman

I had fire in my belly for this answer… I spoke of Anthony Volpe’s presentation on sentiment analysis at our recent Supply Chain Insights Global Summit. I spoke of my experience during the Icelandic ash issue. I find twitter an accurate source of data. It is one of my favorite questions.

Iceland 150
article thumbnail

Reflective Thinking: Complexity

Logility

Source: Dictionary.com. External factors vary from port closures due to worker strikes to natural disasters such as the recent eruptions of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull which have caused several disruptions to supply chains around the globe. com-plex-i-ty [k uh m- plek -si-tee].

Gartner 100