Resilient Supply Chain

Protecting your supply chain from costly disruptions requires rethinking the least-cost or overly lean strategies that have dominated global supply chains for decades.

This year’s summit helps attendees shake off the impacts of a difficult year and use digital transformation, risk management, reshoring and other tools to reimagine their operations for success in 2021.

With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic continuing to impact supply chain operations a new study issued this week, which was commissioned by supply chain software and services provider BluJay Solutions and conducted by Adelante SCM, in partnership with the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), examined how shippers have worked their way through COVID-19-driven supply chain disruption and also what they plan to do in order to have more resilient supply chains.

By using technology, people, and processes, today’s supply chains can produce real-time transparency to everyone in the supply chain journey including manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and even consumers.

2020 marks the 15th year that we’re offering our readers a line up of educational sessions (going live on Dec. 10) designed to prepare logistics and supply chain operations for the year to come.

In this white paper, Convoy will review five fundamental attributes of resilient supply chains and also how shippers can secure reliable and flexible capacity in any market condition with a digital freight network.

A new survey released this week by global research and advisory company Gartner examines how the trend of moving sourcing and manufacturing operations out of China is on the rise, for global supply chain leaders. Entitled “Weathering the Storm: Supply Chain Resilience in an Age of Disruption,” the survey is based on feedback from 260 global supply chain leaders, whom were polled over February and March.

Traditionally, supply chain teams have focused on having perfect data to arrive at accurate supply chain plans, but in today’s uncertain world, striving for accuracy is no longer enough.

In today's COVID-19 social distancing environment, modern application programming interfaces or APIs connect people, businesses, and things within the supply chain.

In this eBook we describe how supply chain resilience is used to; transform to support an outside-in, demand-driven operating model, respond to demand rather than forecasts and adjust to unexpected changes while still meeting service levels.

A dearth of supply chain suppliers is what global companies are now contending with, and unfortunately, there is no easy way out!

The 2017 FM Global Resilience Index is the first data-driven tool and repository that ranks the resilience of 130 countries and territories according to their enterprise resilience to disruptive events.

Tokyo - An earthquake with preliminary magnitude of 7.3 struck Tuesday off the coast of Fukushima prefecture in Japan, a tsunami warning for waves of up to 10 feet has been issued.

Natural disasters, adverse weather, political unrest, cargo theft - all of these events can cause disruption in the supply chain.

DHL Resilience360, an end-to-end supply chain risk management platform, has been monitoring in real-time the heightened security following the Brussels attacks and its implications for supply chains and logistics.