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Risk Management in Global Ocean Context

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Risk Management in Global Ocean Context Feature Article by LSCMS Shippers Council Rates have gone down massively in most trade lanes; congestion has eased, and capacity seems sufficient in most sectors. It appears that operational and procurement risks for beneficial cargo owners or shippers, in the short term, are minimal.

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Supply Chain Risk Management in 2024: A Forward Look with Tom Linton

Resilinc

Accomplished procurement veteran and author Tom Linton provides valuable insights into the supply chain risk management landscape in 2024 in this exclusive Q&A. What are the biggest supply chain trends we will see in 2024, and how can managers prepare for those trends? Then, everything else becomes inventory.

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Risk Management: Is 2018 the Year of Living Dangerously?

Enterra Insights

” Taken as a whole, the issues raised by Monahan and Gott are enough to keep any risk manager awake through the night. ”[2] Those risks are: 1. … CaaS will slowly but steadily put everyone — enterprises, SMBs, individual businessmen, and personal Internet users — at an equal level of risk exposure.”

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What are the best Supply Chain Strategies for 2021

ivalua

Supply Chain Risk Management on the World Stage – Lessons Learned. When it comes to factors like access to labor, it becomes an improbable task to reproduce a labor market the size of say China or India. Managing Risk Across the Supply Chain Remains Challenging. Stalwarts of Business Planning Showing Cracks.

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Shorter Supply Chains are Upending Globalization Patterns

Enterra Insights

In his opening remarks at the World Economic Forum’s ‘summer Davos’ in Tianjin [in late June], Li said that ‘some in the West are hyping up the so-called phraseologies of reducing dependencies and de-risking. ”[1] Chinese leaders believe that companies, not governments, should make risk management decisions.

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Elephant in the Room: Thoughts on Metrics That Matter in Semiconductor and Hard Disk Drives

Kinaxis

Consider that the Chinese and India governments are investing in the semiconductor industry. With China already a source for semiconductor raw materials and the China/India end consumer market growing, there will be pressure to supply chips and hard drives to local China/India OEM’s first.

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Supply Chain Risk Management: Risks of Relocating a Business ‘China to Vietnam’

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Customer service, parts shortages, unprecedented inventory growth, and warrant management can actually take up internal sources and affect profit margins. According to Nikkei, the Asian Review, HP and Dell could move up to about 30% of their production from China to India. This makes it difficult to focus on the business itself.

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