Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 3, 2024

That time of year when the industry ships a higher volume of desirable, in-demand goods. Cargo thieves love the holidays. Appliances and furniture, food and beverages, and electronics are hot commodities. Warehouses and distribution centers are top targets.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 1, 2025

Whether goods are shipped by land, sea, or air, cargo insurance ensures that businesses do not suffer financial losses due to transportation-related incidents. Cyber Insurance As supply chains increasingly rely on digital platforms and technologies, the risk of cyber-attacks has grown.

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Exiger Perspectives

JANUARY 7, 2025

Our advanced tools automate Bill of Materials (BOM) mapping and supplier validation, accurately identifying and contextualizing supply chain relationships. This includes mapping sub-tier suppliers, such as legal entities, manufacturing sites, and shipping locations, up to a specified depth.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The incident caused massive oil leakage, leading to devastating environmental damage and disrupting the supply chain of the fishing, tourism and shipping industries in the region. The result was 205.8 million gallons of oil and 225,000 tons of methane spilled into the Gulf of Mexico.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The intricate networks of shipping routes, ports, and inland terminals have strengthened the interconnectedness of the world economy, and maritime shipping is the critical mode of global transport. While the drought in Panama has ended and shipping is rebounding, the Suez Canal, where traffic has been cut in half, remains an issue.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Heading into this year, the global shipping disruptions that impacted transit times related to having to avoid the Suez Canal because of Red Sea terrorist attacks, or reduced water levels in the Panama Canal requiring reduced transit slots were generally mitigated. Global wide manufacturing activity levels as measured by the J.P.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 7, 2025

Integrated Sourcing Strategy And this also brings up why you need integrated sourcing as well as Procurement. has broken this model completely.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 30, 2025

In others, consideration for domestic market or near-shoring sourcing of production, duty free inventory postponement or of direct ship order fulfillment can be analyzed in efforts to recalibrate demand and supply networks.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 16, 2025

GM is on the hook to pay the new tariff on the foreign parts in all cars that come across the northern and southern borders, a 25% tax on other components starting in May, and 145% on the materials it ships by boat from China. We highlight the above because they reflect the essence of the challenges that U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 23, 2025

A published report by business broadcasting network CNBC published yesterday cites security experts indicating that “ the threat to commercial shipping in the waters around the Arabian Peninsula has risen. ” A further concern is the threat of added terrorist attacks on global shipping, key terminals or other strategic facilities.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Overarching Indicators for the Coming Year Our prediction themes for 2025 reflect that manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers face yet another extended period of high uncertainty related to global and domestic business and associated supply chain strategies. That is quickly fleeting.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 6, 2017

While civil unrest could slow down production or shipments in a foreign country, natural disasters can accomplish just as much shipping disruption in North America. Even Canada, a country that’s not exactly famous for shipping disasters, was virtually cut in half by a single unexpected bridge collapse in 2016.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 1, 2020

The topic of supply chain risk management has taken on a new persona as the global supply chain endures the COVID-19 crisis. The post LTL Shipping Through Proactive Supply Chain Risk Management Software appeared first on Transportation Management Company | Cerasis.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 4, 2021

Any discussion on supply chain risk management and applying managed transportation to help prevent risks from coming to fruition is incomplete without touching on the pandemic to overcome supply chain disruption. Market Volatility Continues to Undermine Supply Chain Risk Management.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Disruption has been the name of the game for more than a year as supply chain leaders have been dealing with changing buyer behaviors, inventory management challenges, labor shortages, weather and pandemic-related uncertainty, cyber security threats and capacity constraints that continue to create significant supply chain volatility.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 27, 2023

Barry Conlon and Joe Lynch discuss supply chain risk management, which is exactly what Barry and his team at Overhaul provide to Fortune 100 companies across the world. Its software-based approach offers high configurability and efficient time-to-value to supply-chain organizations without heavy tech.

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Kinaxis

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

states, obvious disruptions to supply chains and supply chain risk management were a given. Many of the states affected contained key ports and supply destinations, as well as transportation and logistics hubs. They would be handling maybe twice as many ships in a typical set of days.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2015

As history has shown, terrorist attacks (and how the world responds to them) affects oil prices, stock markets, consumer confidence and spending, and trade lanes — and they can trigger new regulations and security measures, which could increase supply chain costs and lead times.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

That’s when it all gets extremely complicated, but one thing remains crystal clear: supply chain risk management is profoundly important for businesses to grow and expand. For example, Deloitte reported that 85 percent of global supply chains experienced at least one disruption caused by fraud or abuse in 2016.

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Resilinc

JANUARY 31, 2024

Learn the best practices for supply chain risk management in 2024 from Resilinc, the gold standard for supply chain resiliency. As risk managers audit their vendors and programs at the start of the year, it’s also time to clean up old strategies and supply chain practices.

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Kinaxis

AUGUST 5, 2014

You have a supply chain risk management strategy in place. Many companies have accepted the need for Supply Chain Risk Management because they understand that just such a scenario could occur and if they are ready for it but their competitors are not, they have an opportunity to gain market share.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Singer suggests that Chinese-made microchips embedded in our appliances, devices, satellites, fighter jets, war ships, and tanks could turn against us.”[1] ” Aside from national security implications, the main lesson to be learned here is how vulnerable companies are to risks associated with their supply chains.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

For example, shippers spent much of last year bemoaning soaring ocean shipping rates and ships waiting for days to unload once they reached their destination port. This needs to be done carefully, a company needs to make sure they don’t force their key vendors into bankruptcy.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 14, 2014

The botnet then sends the scanner a second piece of malware that targets the victim’s corporate financial, customer, shipping, and manifest information. As I’ve written many times before, when it comes to supply chain risk management, many companies are falling short.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 29, 2022

Supply Chain Risk Management Solution from riskmethods. If I was asked to vote for the most interesting solution set that has come to the fore over the last few years, my vote would be for supply chain risk management solutions. Supply Chain Risk Management Vendors.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

by Dr. Madhav Durbha Supply chain risks in the spotlight: Effects of Hanjin Shipping filing bankruptcy protection. A few days ago, the world’s seventh largest container shipping company by volume, Hanjin Shipping, filed for bankruptcy protection. Any such event will cause congestion in the ports.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 30, 2021

With mounting last mile costs, this early May blog post sought to provide shippers with clarity around the growing demand for final mile logistics and keeping costs under control with proactive shipping strategies. #5. 5 Transportation Management Optimization Practices. The State of the Trucking Market in 2021.

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SCM Research

JULY 18, 2013

2013), recently published in Ecology Letters, discusses the risk of marine bioinvasion caused by global shipping. The Risk of Marine Bioinvasion Caused by Global Shipping. Practice Theory Article Supply Chain Management Supply Chain Risk Management Supply Chain Sustainability'

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Kinaxis

AUGUST 18, 2014

Then, they check online for deals and shipping dates. Since they are brand agnostic, they look at inventories in the supply chain network; they want to customize their purchase. Test scenarios that would optimize inventory costs, postponement options, shipping costs, etc…. Yes, this is hard stuff.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Moving on to this week’s supply chain and logistics news… Target Lowers Free Shipping Minimum to $25 for Online Orders. DHL launches next phase Resilience360 risk management tool to help customers avoid global disasters. enVista Announces Record Revenue for 2014.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 11, 2014

For the purposes of the study that we just completed, we defined supply chain risk management as the proactive identification and resolution of potential risks to the supply chain. Unfortunately, too many supply chains are reactive. They had a disruption. Defining the Topic.

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American Global Logistics

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

By taking a proactive approach to supply chain risk management, your business can protect itself from disruptions and maintain its competitive edge. The shipping environment is prone to disruptions. A robust supply chain risk management plan is essential.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The threat of a strike from a major shipping carrier in North America, the wage increases that have happened, have rippled on an international basis; all these factors introduce instability into supply chains. Global trade disruptions Trade distribution continues to be impeded.

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Resilinc

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

A common challenge for procurement and supply chain professionals is obtaining support from C-level leaders to invest in a robust supply chain risk management (SCRM) program. Ready for a more resilient supply chain? Contact us today.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

According to a July 2014 supply chain research study from Accenture focused on Big Data and supply chain risk management, most organizations have high hopes for using big data analytics in their supply chain but many have had challenges in deploying it.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 15, 2014

As the WSJ article reports, “In one example of that surge in demand, a container terminal operator at Port Metro Vancouver in August told its customers it didn’t have enough railcars to ship Asian goods to the U.S. Midwest and suspended service for a week.”. The bottom line: History keeps repeating itself at the U.S. West Coast ports.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 25, 2016

Promise time, lead time, cycle time, transit time, delivery time, unloading time, processing time, queue time, quality assurance time, processing time, turnaround time, receiving time, and shipping time to the customer, (and I bet you could think of more "times" to measure!). Read More. . Read More. .

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