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Hurricane season 2024: how to prepare your supply chain

Resilinc

The 2024 hurricane season is expected to be extremely active, with multiple forecasts predicting above-average activity, increasing the potential for supply chain disruptions. Hurricane supply chain disruption examples Let’s take a look at some real-life examples of how hurricanes have disrupted the supply chain.

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What is Supply Chain Visibility and Why Isn’t It Enough?

Logistics Viewpoints

In a survey of 150 global manufacturing executives, 47% committed to improving supply chain visibility and tracking. According to the Global Supply Chain Disruption and Future Strategies Survey Report, this goal was the top-ranked planned tool investment. What is supply chain visibility?

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Logistics Woes Start People Thinking About Christmas in July

Enterra Insights

… Christmas in July started [88] years ago on July 24th and 25th in 1933 at a girls’ camp called Keystone Camp in Brevard, North Carolina.”[1] 1] Katherine Owen, “ The Real Story Behind Christmas in July Started in North Carolina ,” Southern Living, July 2017. [2] Footnotes. [1] Footnotes. [1]

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4 Things We Learned this Hurricane Season About How Companies Use Tech to Help Communities

BlueYonder

A North Carolina Chick-fil-A also opened on a Sunday, donating sandwiches and nuggets to evacuees. Does your supply chain need a built-in crisis control center? Looking for a tool to warn you of an impending supply chain disruption — and help you manage it?

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4 Things We Learned this Hurricane Season About How Companies Use Tech to Help Communities

BlueYonder

A North Carolina Chick-fil-A also opened on a Sunday, donating sandwiches and nuggets to evacuees. Does your supply chain need a built-in crisis control center? Looking for a tool to warn you of an impending supply chain disruption — and help you manage it?

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Supply Chain Disruption and Digitization

Enterra Insights

De Bernardini notes, “A massive amount of data will be available, along with systems and tools to collect, analyze and transform that data into information. And truck platooning is being experimented with in North Carolina. The IoT, however, will dramatically increase the amount of data with which companies must deal.

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Supply Chain Risk Management: Could You Face a Category 4 Supply Chain Disaster?

Kinaxis

Home Depot devoted a whole distribution center in Florida to hurricane relief supplies such as tools, generators, tarps, flashlights, batteries and chainsaws, to support more efficient distribution across the southeast. Lowe’s also had distribution centers in Florida, Georgia and North Carolina with extra supplies ready and waiting.