Resilient Supply Chain

Following yesterday’s bridge collision in Baltimore, when the 32,000-ton container ship, Dali, collided into the 1.6-mile Francis Scott Key bridge over the Patapsco River in Baltimore, causing it to collapse and stopping ship traffic at the Port of Baltimore, for an indefinite period, it has created yet another uncertain situation for supply chains.

Large businesses are more likely to make strengthening their supply chains a priority, report finds.

Procurement Leaders in partnership with JAGGEAR cover the trends, challenges and opportunities that procurement faces in 2024.

The Association for Supply Chain Management has introduced a new resiliency certificate that will train leaders on the concepts, practices and trends in building resilient supply chains.

Earlier this week, a bipartisan, supply chain-focused piece of legislation was unanimously passed through the House Committee on Energy and Commerce by a 44-0 vote. The legislation, entitled the “Promoting Resilient Supply Chains Act,” was introduced by Representatives Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE) and Larry Bucshon (R-IN).

The Biden administration has announced the Council on Supply Chain Resilience, an effort to engage the secure the nation’s most critical supply chains.

Accenture survey finds 85% of companies plan to manufacture and sell most of their products in the same region in 2026.

More extreme weather is a major concern for supply chain. Last week a U.S. Senate committee heard testimony on how the weather could further disrupt supply chains if action is not taken.

Companies looking to build resiliency in the supply chains need to get out of silos and build collaboration to collect the right data.

This white paper aims to delve into the strategies that enterprises are currently employing, as well as explore untapped possibilities for balancing these three critical priorities - costs, resilience and sustainability.

The ASCM top 10 supply chain trends for 2024 feature a new number one, but technology trends still dominate the top five overall.

From disruptions in the Panama Canal due to drought and threats of major hurricanes like Idalia, weather can take a toll on your supply chain. Getting ahead of the disaster before it hits starts with building resiliency.

As fires on Maui and Big Island continue to burn, the American Logistics Aid Network (ALAN) is gearing up to provide support – and calling on members of the logistics community to be on long-term alert for opportunities to do the same.

A report sponsored by GEP that is based on a survey conducted between January 2023 and March 2023 of 400 executives in the US and Europe who were familiar with their organization's supply chain strategy and operations.

In the future, once quantum computers are available, they will allow supply chain planners to consider many more real-world constraints for these logistics use cases and produce more accurate results, because they can efficiently handle many more parameters than classical computers.