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Can You Predict Supply Chain Disruptions in an Unpredictable World?

Logility

It’s an undeniable mess, and while you can’t always predict supply chain disruptions, it doesn’t mean you can’t be better prepared, with disruptions big and small now an accepted inevitability. The Power to Predict Supply Chain Disruptions. But it’s time to accept that the world is in a constant state of flux.

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Importance of Digitalisation to Improve Supply Chains: Helping Businesses Navigate Through Supply Chain Disruptions

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Applying innovation to supply chains, combines innovative technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT), analytics, and robotics to supply chain management to improve performance and meet customer demands. One solution to this problem is centralized distribution and real-time inventory management. As Industry 4.0 Supply Chain 4.0

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Supply Chain Leaders Prepare For The Long Haul. Caution: It Will Be Gray.

Supply Chain Shaman

The first major polio epidemic in the United States occurred in Vermont in the summer of 1894. The last case of polio in the United States was 1979. The thought of a pandemic killing over 350,000 people globally and over 100,000 in the United States in just three months is mind-numbing. The answer?

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The State of the Trucking Market in 2021

GlobalTranz

Pent-up demand of customers and the strong predictions for another above-average peak season has put a unique burden on truckload and parcel transportation. United States Business Logistics Costs fell by around 4% to end up at an estimated$1.56 transportation management optimization ?to As highlighted by? Focusing on the?

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What You Need To Know About The State Of The Retail Worker Shortage

ToolsGroup

Yet according to retail advisory firm IHL , “The most significant challenges to inventory distortion are the availability of workers and the disruptions outside of the immediate control of the retailer.” As per a recent report by CNBC , the labor department in the United States has 5.5 Source: Bloomberg.com.

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Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2016

Talking Logistics

Well, my big audacious prediction for 2015 did not come true. But some of my other predictions did hit the mark or came close. Making supply chain and logistics predictions is like throwing darts at a moving target. When making predictions, it’s easy to look at recent trends and simply project them forward.

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Build Resilient Supply Chains That Weather Disruptions 

Logility

It is a time of uncertainty that has exposed weaknesses in the supply chain that are both difficult to solve and impossible to predict. Can the United States be far behind? When this happens, you need alternate sources in different regions that can deliver the parts.