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Measuring resiliency through Resilinc’s R Score®

Resilinc

Then a deep freeze shut down TexasTexas! Supply chain management is a metrics-driven field, and in today’s disruptive environment, the ability to measure supply chain risk and resilience via key metrics is crucial, especially when it comes to articulating the resiliency profile of your business.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 23 – 29)

Logistics Viewpoints

Ahead of the April 8 total solar eclipse , which will stretch from Texas to Maine, some state transportation departments are advising truckers to consider staying off the roads as traffic is expected to be severely impacted by people traveling to see the astronomical event.

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Top Solutions for Supply Chain Agility

Logistics Viewpoints

E2open was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas. The Nexus model can also provide the kind of data that digital twins that are based on a static planning model struggle to provide true lead times (and other supply chain throughput/cycle time metrics). Real-time location and IoT data such as condition statuses (e.g.,

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How Supply Chain Will be Affected by Hurricane Harvey

Material Handling & Logistics

Hurricane Harvey has struck a significant blow to the Houston, Texas metro area, home to the sixth largest import terminal in the world, as well as all of the shipping lanes in the Gulf Coast area. For manufacturing, those metrics are new orders, production, employment, supplier deliveries, and inventories of input materials.

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Top Suppliers of Transportation Execution and Visibility

Logistics Viewpoints

Headquartered in Austin, Texas, E2open is the largest provider of transportation execution solutions. But, if a company wants to work with a new supplier, and that supplier is in the network, metrics on that carrier also exist. The company is focused on ocean shipping. project44 is a private company headquartered in Chicago.

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New Year’s Resolution #1 for Supply Chain Planners: Improve Performance Measurement

Demand Solutions

Make it your New Year’s resolution to start using this more granular metric. When an item is out of stock in their Massachusetts warehouse, they’ll overnight it from their Texas warehouse just to make sure they fill the order. Or they will run an overtime shift, at premium labor rates.

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The Increasing Role of Climate Change in Supply Chain Disruptions

NC State SCRC

The Texas freeze and the power outages brought the world’s largest petrochemical complex to a standstill, forcing more plants in the Gulf of Mexico region to shut down than during Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Gulf Coast export PVC prices were assessed at $1,900 a metric tonne for the week of Sept. However, worse was to come.