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Supply Chain Disruptions or Minor Inconveniences?

Logility

Can you anticipate and properly plan for once in a lifetime events like last year’s Icelandic volcano, and the earthquake and subsequent tsunami earlier this year in Japan? Instead of specific plans, supply chain organizations need to look at increased flexibility and modeling the capabilities of their entire network.

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Supply Chain Disruptions or Minor Inconveniences?

Logility

Can you anticipate and properly plan for once in a lifetime events like last year’s Icelandic volcano, and the earthquake and subsequent tsunami earlier this year in Japan? Instead of specific plans, supply chain organizations need to look at increased flexibility and modeling the capabilities of their entire network.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 24 – 30)

Logistics Viewpoints

Nike Earnings Reflect Supply Chain Disruption Complexities. In 2017, Flytrex successfully launched the world’s first fully autonomous urban drone delivery system in Reykjavik, Iceland, and we covered that initiative in these pages on June 15, 2018. Walmart Opens First of Four Next Generation Fulfillment Centers.

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Molex Prizes Agility

Logistics Viewpoints

While not completely protecting them from the supply shocks that occurred during the pandemic, it allowed them to respond to their customers with greater speed and agility, manage costs, and provide options when a supply chain disruption occurred. They have a date and the quantity, but it is not refreshed.”

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

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Rapid advancements in technology, globalization, and the interconnectedness of markets have amplified the frequency and magnitude of supply chain disruptions. In recent times, the speed, impact, and predictability of change have significantly increased compared to the past.

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Supply Chain Resilience Core Capacities

MIT Supply Chain

The matrix describes the general nature of disruptions, and in most cases depicts mainly local impact areas. However, in global supply chains, a local disruption can quickly escalate into a global impact. The future of supply chain resilience As the above analysis shows, different supply chain disruptions?—?and

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3 Ways to Get the Supply Chain Ready for Disaster

RFgen

” Three ways organizations can prepare for supply chain disruption are: 1. The Forbes report said that part of why organizations can be ready for a disaster is that many businesses will establish plans for what they will do if their supply chain is disrupted. The question that remains is “how?”