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Editor’s Choice: Fortifying Warehouse and Distribution Centers Against Cyberattacks

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This article is from Patrick Byers, DevOps Engineer at Lucas Systems, and looks at fortifying warehouse and distribution centers against cybersecurity attacks. The warehousing and distribution industry is highly reliant on technology for its operations. Why are warehouses and DCs so vulnerable to cyberattacks?

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The Coolest Supply Chain Boutique Consultants

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My colleague Clint Reiser has completed a study on warehouse management system (WMS) boutiques. They also tend to be less expensive than the global consulting firms. Bricz is a consultancy with a focus on all things warehousing – appropriately headquartered in the logistics hotbed of Atlanta. What is a boutique?

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Will Trucking Challenges Transform JITS in North America?

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JITS is the acronym for “just-in-time-sequence,” a common supply chain practice in the automotive industry that eliminates or significantly reduces the need to maintain parts inventory at the assembly plant. Cost savings in warehousing and floor space along with associated reduction in personnel required. But why just in North America?

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From Real-Time Visibility to Real-Time Decisions: Data’s Value Is Propagating Across Global Supply Chains

Logistics Viewpoints

I’ve said it before (right here in Logistics Viewpoints), but it’s worth repeating: the digital transformation of our complex global supply chains is an ongoing journey. Supply Planning and Deployment : Will any intra-network disruptions cause imbalances in warehouse and transportation capacity? Lesson learned. He lives in Chicago.

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2023 Supply Chain Priorities, Perceptions, and Initiatives – Preliminary Results

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Earlier this month in the post titled What Does 2023 Have In-Store for Global Supply Chains? , And it appears that the combination of labor and inflation in the form of warehouse labor cost inflation is currently the highest concern for 2023 among the listed warehousing related external factors in ARC’s survey.

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Unilever’s Relentless Commitment to S-Curve Transformations

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Such a large company, they have over 127,000 employees globally, clearly has a massive supply chain. This multinational operates 280 factories and 500 warehouses, that source raw materials from 52,000 suppliers in over 150 countries, processes 25 million customer orders annually, that are then shipped to customers in over 190 nations.

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2023 Mid-Year Check-In: Current Status of Supply Chains and What’s Next?

Logistics Viewpoints

In February 2023 I wrote the article What Does 2023 Have In-Store for Global Supply Chains? I believe our findings capture the pulse of North America logistics operations and the executives’ perceptions and priorities going into the second half of 2023. And they must be capable of adapting to various demands.