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SCM Cyber Security: Mitigating Supply Chain Risks of Cyberattack

MercuryGate

Cybercriminals are working harder than ever to disrupt the transportation and shipping industry. As a result, security configuration management (SCM) cyber security is a top priority for most companies that rely on transportation logistics and other services in the global supply chain.

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RFID in the Supply Chain: Fizzling Technology or the Future of Effective SCM?

GlobalTranz

More recently, with the rise of interconnected systems, the analytics to derive value from those systems seems, and decreased costs, RFID is resurrecting as a solution for increasing supply chain management (SCM), visibility into processes, and reducing inventory tracking costs. Active Versus Passive RFID Tags in SCM.

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The Importance of Value-Added Services in Logistics and SCM!

Supply Chain Game Changer

According to Adelante SCM’s recent research , 63 percent of organizations that use value-added services consider it a “very significant” business function. Types of Value-Added Service for Logistics and SCM. – Transloading Transportation Management. – Record Retention. – Assembly.

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Supply Chain Resilience. Really?

Supply Chain Shaman

Expand the “FLOW” program for logistics information sharing to forecast transportation flow. Source: Supply Chain Insights ASCM defines resilience in the SCM Supply Chain Dictionary as the ability of a supply chain to anticipate, create plans to avoid or mitigate, and to recover from disruptions to supply chain functionality.

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Logistics and Supply Chain – 1940 to 2040 with Jason Miller

The Logistics of Logistics

The department educates students to succeed in careers such as procurement, manufacturing, inventory management, warehousing, transportation, and customer service. Students graduate with foundational knowledge across all areas of SCM, positioning them to work in multiple capacities for the top global companies.

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Driving Sustainability in the Age of Supply Chain Disruption

Logistics Viewpoints

Emerging technologies play a role in managing disruption and are driving change in the transportation and logistics industries. All of these come together in some way with autonomous transportation options. Economic development is both measured by and based on logistics. Volvo’s POD in Sweden is a great example.

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Integrating ERP and TMS: Why Your Business Needs Both Systems

GlobalTranz

While ERP systems provide excellent tools to manage accounting, human resources, customer relationships and more, they considerably lack the tools needed to properly manage transportation. This information feeds into a TMS solution’s transportation intelligence which then produces reports regarding your supply chain.