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BD Achieves End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility

Logistics Viewpoints

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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Consumer Goods, Ebola, Boku Haram, and African Logistics

Logistics Viewpoints

Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) Global Trade Logistics Outsourcing Retail Supply Chain Risk Management' But add to that the Ebola plague, insurgent groups like Boku Haram, corruption, and instable government regimes, and you have what appears to be […].

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This Week in Supply Chain Tech- January 19 2024

Supply Chain Matters

Founded in 2015, the Sayari platform integrates global corporate and supply chain data to surface risk insights for investigations, analytics, and supply chain risk management. Data that is captured can be utilized in supply chain risk management compliance and other business process decision-making.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 7 – 13)

Logistics Viewpoints

Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) Global Trade Inventory Management Labor Logistics Technologies Omni-channel logistics Regulations Retail Statistics Supply Chain Risk Management This Week in News Trade Security Transportation' This is a good sign for the US economy, as jobs continue to grow.

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The Hackers Inside Your Supply Chain

Talking Logistics

This would, among other things, allow the attacker to make a package “disappear” or “reappear,” he says. As I’ve written many times before, when it comes to supply chain risk management, many companies are falling short.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 4-8, 2016)

Talking Logistics

According to the Wall Street Journal : EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager said her agency had “thoroughly assessed the markets affected” by the deal due to the importance of affordable package delivery for many businesses and consumers, particularly in the burgeoning e-commerce market. Vestager said.

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An update on the polymer shortage

Resilinc

For example, in an October 2020 presentation on China’s rapidly growing and highly integrated petrochemicals market, data showed that average inventory levels for MEG—a feedstock used predominantly in polyester fibers, PET plastic packaging and bottles—almost doubled between 2017 and 2020.