The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 27, 2024

Ilya Preston and Joe Lynch discuss the $440 billion logistics problem. Ilya is Co-Founder & CEO at PAXAFE , a company that provides an autonomous AI-enabled decision support system for quality, transportation & supply chain leaders to exhibit resiliency and automation from their visibility investments.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 29, 2022

Supply Chain Risk Management Solution from riskmethods. If I was asked to vote for the most interesting solution set that has come to the fore over the last few years, my vote would be for supply chain risk management solutions. Supply Chain Risk Management Vendors.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 16, 2023

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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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 30, 2021

Marisa Brown, Senior Principal Research Lead, Supply Chain Management at APQC (American Productivity & Quality Center) recently gave a presentation at ARC Advisory Group’s Supply Chain Forum. Because of the pandemic, risk management surrounding sourcing has become top of mind in supply chain organizations.

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SCM Research

JUNE 29, 2020

Norrman & Jansson’s (2004) case study on Ericsson’s supply chain risk management (SCRM) practices is definitely part of the canon of SCM literature. The results can now be found in our new article, The Development of Supply Chain Risk Management over Time: Revisiting Ericsson.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 20, 2023

I’ve always said, if you’re in supply chain management, you’re in the risk management business. You have your typical risks, like natural disasters and labor strikes, with the latter becoming more prevalent this past year. As reported by Kate Bronfenbrenner in the Wall Street Journal, “As of Oct.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 1, 2024

Blue Yonder’s CEO, Duncan Angove The supply chain software landscape is changing rapidly. On Friday, March 29 th , Blue Yonder, a leading provider of supply chain planning and today execution solutions, announced signing an agreement to acquire One Network Enterprises for approximately $839 million. More than 5.6

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The coronavirus, which the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global health emergency last week, is starting to have an impact on supply chains. Read more Coronavirus: Supply Chain Risk Management Back in Spotlight. As the spread of the new coronavirus in China causes.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Today, I speak at the North American Manufacturing Association, Manufacturing Leadership Conference, in Nashville on the use of data to improve supply chain resilience. Background The Council of Supply Chain Resilience met for the first time this month. What is supply chain resilience? The reason?

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ToolsGroup

AUGUST 27, 2021

Manufacturers are facing massive shortages across their supply chains, which, along with as well as an utter failure to move swiftly to account for said shortages, has resulted in a market flooded with demand for an ever-dwindling supply. It is, in order words, a failure in supply chain risk management.

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Resilinc

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Shahzaib Khan discusses Resilinc’s journey toward AI-driven supply chain excellence From its early inception in the 60s’ to its increasingly available public access, artificial intelligence (AI) has come a long way. Yet, numerous global supply chains today still struggle with mapping their global suppliers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 2, 2020

Omni-channel business models often lead to more complicated global supply chains. With the main focus on maximizing time and cost efficiencies, cargo risk management is often skipped over despite being a critical step in protecting your company. The risk of […].

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C3 Solutions

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Before 2020, the global supply chain seemed almost untouchable, a well-oiled machine that kept the global economy turning. Risk mitigation and supply chain resiliency wasn’t the top priority for businesses.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 14, 2023

Ocean Risk Management part 2: Navigating Global Shipping Alliance The shipping industry continues to evolve. Additionally, we examine the decision between using a carrier or a Non-Vessel Operating Common Carrier (NVOCC) as a vendor and how this choice can impact risk management. Where do we stand today?

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The toilet paper shortage was one of the COVID era events that taught people what the term “supply chain management” meant. The changes to the profession of supply chain management are dramatic. Firstly, the term “supply chain management” was not in general use before COVID.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 9, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic and its ripple effects have put supply chain risk management back in the spotlight. Simply put, supply chains today face greater risks than in the past, including from relatively new threats like cyberattacks. How often do you consider risk in your supply chain decisions?

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 16, 2023

In such adverse situations, humanitarian logistics and food supply chains play a crucial role in aiding. Whether it is responding to natural disasters or addressing the impact of conflicts and pandemics, a well-functioning logistics system can significantly impact people’s lives.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 17, 2023

This past March, in the aftermath of the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, the Wall Street Journal reported that “Corporate information technology leaders say they are reassessing vendor relationships and putting greater emphasis on risk management.” We asked members of our Indago.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 3, 2024

If Logistics Services Providers (LSPs) and shippers thought 2024 was going to be smooth sailing, the dual impact of the ongoing Panama Canal congestion and Red Sea shipping attacks has been a rude awakening with severe delays in container transportation, higher costs of ocean freight, and unpredictable departure and arrival times.

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Supply Chain Movement

AUGUST 12, 2022

In the face of today’s highly disruptive external environment, companies need to leave traditional and ineffective approaches to risk management behind and move towards a new pro-active approach. Stop chasing events and become risk-aware! Stop thinking in risk events – focus on impact. By Iris Heckmann and Thomas Ebel.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 8, 2024

Supply chain risk solutions are hot. Exiger’s CEO, Brandon Daniels, told me they were larger than their three largest supply chain risk competitors combined. Modern supply chain risk solutions are marvelous pieces of technology. Lately, Exiger has been in the news.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 25, 2024

The future of supply chains will be enabled by Artificial Intelligence, electric trucks, robots, and other technologies. But only if we have enough electricity to power it all, which is a big question mark (and risk) at the moment. Read more The post Do We Have Enough Electricity to Power the Future of Supply Chains?

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 14, 2023

Breaking Boundaries: Exploring Generative AI’s Impact on Supply Chains Supply chains encompass many interconnected activities, from procurement, production, and inventory management, to logistics and distribution.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 7, 2023

Alexis Mizell-Pleasant and Joe Lynch discuss the next frontier in food logistics. Alexis is Managing Editor at Food Logistics and Supply & Demand Chain Executive. Food Logistics and sister publication Supply & Demand Chain Executive also operate SCN Summit and Women in Supply Chain Forum.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 30, 2014

As I discussed last Friday, Accenture published a report recently on supply chain risk management. The chart below from the Accenture report highlights the different approaches companies are taking to supply chain risk management. The post Your 3PL as Supply Chain Risk Management Partner?

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Supply management. Supply chain management. Supply chain planning. Increasing Maturity of the Role of the Forecast for the Supply Chain Leader This gets me back to why technologies are not improving enterprise leadership’s ability to forecast and manage revenue.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JUNE 10, 2021

Managing cross-border, international supply chains with multiple, disconnected systems and manual processes indeed have many pitfalls. The Evergreen shipping incident in the Suez Canal proved that logistics remains vulnerable. But good solutions can transform risks into opportunities.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 26, 2023

Hannah Kain and Joe Lynch discuss the outsourced supply chain, a topic Hannah is familiar with due to ALOM ‘s extensive experience managing supply chain functions for diverse industries. About Hannah Kain Hannah Kain is President and CEO of ALOM, a supply chain company she founded in 1997.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 17, 2024

For several years now I’ve been arguing that the scope of end-to-end supply chain visibility must go beyond the tracking of orders, shipments, inventory, and assets in motion. It must also include visibility to greenhouse-gas emissions and forced labor across the supply chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 5, 2022

ARC analysts have published predictions about supply chain technology trends at the beginning of the year in past years. Supply Chain Disruptions Will Diminish, but Remain Substantial. Supply Chain Disruptions Will Diminish, but Remain Substantial. We expect direct impacts to diminish in 2022.

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PLS Logistics

JANUARY 29, 2021

The cybersecurity of supply chains has been an industry concern for a long time. Because of this, the importance of supply chain risk management and cybersecurity becomes widely recognized in the industry.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 21, 2023

In February 2023 I wrote the article What Does 2023 Have In-Store for Global Supply Chains? It introduced the survey we had just launched to determine the perceptions, priorities, and strategic initiatives of today’s supply chain and logistics executives. Meanwhile, labor constraints are as binding as ever.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Geopolitical concerns motivated Les Williams and Andres Franzetti , Co-founders of Risk Cooperative, to ask, “How will current tensions across the globe affect the supply chain?”[1] ” They add, “Geopolitical risks … can severely disrupt the highly interconnected global economy. .”

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Cooper University Health Care Relies Upon Real-time Alerts to Improve Operations Cooper University Health Care, like most companies, struggled with their supply chain during COVID. The company bought a risk solution that provides real-time alerts to potential supply disruptions. We knew exactly what we couldn’t get.”

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Ever since COVID hit, supply chain executives have embraced supply chain risk management. Within this discipline, one of the toughest challenges is how to get visibility to problems arising across the extended supply network. Supply Chain Chaos is the New Norm. Chasing N-Tier Visibility.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Supply chain risk management and resiliency are hot-button topics in the industry. However, minute supply chain entities do not understand how resilience relates to risk management and what it means for improving focus on the supply chain. Role of Supply Chain Risk Management.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 13, 2017

I like to say that supply chain management is synonymous with risk management, and the risks are growing every day, everything from natural disasters to cyberattacks. Unfortunately, many companies are falling short in managing these risks effectively. In what ways are they falling short? “I

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