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Agility and flexibility in the age of digital supply chains – Insights from the 2017 Supply Chain & Logistics EMEA summit & expo

Kinaxis

Positive events can cause supply chain disruptions as well. For example a new large order or a new product or promotional offer performing exceedingly well can be quite disruptive to the supply flow. An audience member made a very apt observation that why all the macro factors were to do with negative events.

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Good Safety is Good Business at the LogiChem 2015 Conference

CH Robinson Transportfolio

The panel touched on the following issues: Supply chain disruptions. Supply chain segmentation. Unexpected events will always be the constant. Chemical shippers and suppliers need to be proactive in order to mitigate risk. Safety and risk go hand in hand. Risk management.

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100+ Supply Chain Crisis Statistics: Raw Materials, Covid-19, Labor Shortages, and More

ToolsGroup

In 2021, 87% of Americans were negatively impacted by the supply chain. 75% of companies felt negative or strongly negative impacts on their business due to supply chain disruption ( Accenture ). In Fortune 500 earnings calls for Q3 of 2021, “supply chain” mentions were up 412% from Q3 in 2020.

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Resilient and Cost Efficient Supply Chains

Operations and Supply Chain Management

The problem, according to the authors, is that protective measures can be at odds with supply chain managers’ goal of improving cost efficiency. Supply chain efficiency, which is directed at improving a company’s financial performance, is different from supply chain resilience , whose goal is risk reduction.

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2012 Supply Chain Predictions: Is the End of the World Nigh?

Supply Chain Network

In the tradition of David Letterman, (in no particular order) let’s hit the Top 10 Supply Chain Predictions for 2012. Supply chain risk will not go away. At the start of 2011, I wrote a blog (Supply Chain Risk and Charles Darwin) that highlighted 2010 as the worst on record for supply chain disruptions.