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Supply Chain Risk Management with Barry Conlon

The Logistics of Logistics

Barry is the CEO and founder of Overhaul, an Austin-based company that provides intelligent, real-time supply chain visibility, risk, compliance, and insurance solutions for global shippers and logistics providers. Customers include Microsoft, Bristol Myers Squibb, and many others.

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The New Definition of Supply Chain Agility and Resilience in an Unpredictable World

Logistics Viewpoints

Digital control towers are helping to increase visibility across the end-to-end supply chain, which is a significant obstacle to making profitable, well-informed decisions. In a 2018 survey by GEODIS, only 6% of supply chain professionals worldwide believed their companies had achieved supply chain visibility ?

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Critical Cancer Drugs, Other Life-Saving Medications Face Severe Shortages

Resilinc

According to the report, the increase in shortages has been caused by economic factors, lack of supply chain visibility , and over-reliance on overseas sources for medications and raw materials. For example, in 2021, a major ice storm in Texas resulted in a manufacturing plant closure in Texas.

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Tompkins International and One Network Webcast: Explore Taking Supply Chain Visibility to New Heights

Tompkins Blog

Global Supply Chain Podcast: [link]. The post Tompkins International and One Network Webcast: Explore Taking Supply Chain Visibility to New Heights appeared first on Tompkins International.

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Beware of Real-time Transportation Visibility “Big Hat, No Carrier”

Logistics Viewpoints

Because the market is so hot, a number of transportation visibility vendors have entered the space and, to get attention, have made big claims about their tracking capabilities, which are misleading potential users. If you haven’t heard the term before, it’s an old Texas saying about making […].

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Supply Chain Impact of Hurricane Harvey Could Be Worse than Expected

Material Handling & Logistics

to the region of Texas that was affected by Hurricane Harvey, and 300 of them are in the Houston vicinity. Vakil cites several key points to make the case for why this would be a major supply chain disruption. Second, Texas’ chemical industry is a foundational block of the interconnected global supply chain.

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Top Suppliers of Transportation Execution and Visibility

Logistics Viewpoints

Headquartered in Austin, Texas, E2open is the largest provider of transportation execution solutions. The network supports a wide array of messaging types including real-time GPS, EDI, and API-based capacity requests, bookings, statuses, and customs messages. The company is focused on ocean shipping.