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The Advantage of Speed: The Cooper Health Supply Chain Relies Upon Real-time Risk Alerts

Logistics Viewpoints

Cooper is also home to a leading cancer center (MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper), the only Level II pediatric trauma center in the Delaware Valley (Children’s Regional Hospital at Cooper), three urgent care centers, and more than 100 outpatient offices from Southeastern Pennsylvania to the Jersey Shore. The pandemic changed that.

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Analyzing Supply Chain Risk

Enterra Insights

”[1] Risk managers have a term for these conditions: VUCA. 2] His warning begs the question: How can supply chain risk managers wake up? Tech writer Vandita Grover observes, “Big-Data and Data Analytics have made a significant contribution to serve the risk management requirements of organizations.”[3]

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Throw Back Thursday: Remembering ‘Meeting Customer Demand in a Complex Industry’ from Kinexions

Kinaxis

This global manufacturer of surface-cutting tools, with headquarters in western Pennsylvania. The challenge is becoming even more daunting as Kennametal moves into the developing world, its most promising source of new business. Customers include the aerospace, surface mining, oil and gas and machine-tool industries.

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

Supply Chain Shaman

The World Health Organization cautions that we are at the beginning of this COVID-19 risk cycles. While my town in Pennsylvania is releasing restrictions, and people are starting to gather again in large groups, I say, “We cannot be too careful.”. Global Risk Management Report Study of Risks Published in January 2020.

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What Supply Chain Risks are Threatening Your Company?

Enterra Insights

So it comes as no surprise a joint report published by the Cranfield School of Management and Dun & Bradstreet concludes, “There are significant differences across sectors, requiring varying risk management practices across industries.”[1] This year’s top ten risks were identified as: 1. ”[8].