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

Logistics Viewpoints

Geopolitical events. The definition of agility and resilience will continue to evolve. The creation of a new digital ecosystem has enabled these and other changes that will shape the definition of supply chain agility and resilience in the 2020s and beyond. A Positive Example. Natural disasters. The rise of ecommerce.

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Business-to-Anything Integration Supports Agile Supply Chains

Logistics Viewpoints

Supply chain collaboration networks, which provide wide ranging visibility to events occurring upstream and downstream in supply chains, can help companies be more agile. OpenText was the largest vendor in this market the last time ARC did the study. I am updating writing and research on the supply chain collaboration network market.

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Analytics in Supply Chain Management Becomes Central As Coronavirus Escalates

IoT World Today

Another Statista study indicated that 44% of retailers expect delays and 40% expect inventory shortages given coronavirus disruptions on the supply chain. In order to build a correct demand plan, one-off events have to be identified and accounted for,” wrote Ralf W. And again, data quality is a huge concern.

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Executive guide to ERP Part 6: The operation stage

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Degradation occurs when a balanced status of systems, business processes and people organization is disturbed by some event and then over time the unused potential degrades to a new level where all three dimensions are in balance again. Another example is where a major customer suddenly demands a change in the way its orders are handled.

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Be Sure, Be Insured. Why Carrier Liability Is Not Insurance

Blue Grace Logistics

It helps businesses mitigate financial loss arising from unforeseen events that may disrupt their supply chain. For the study, Harris Poll surveyed more than 600 professionals. Almost 25 – 50% of the participants thought that their carrier liability provided cover for incidents or events that it actually did not.

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Ethics in Procurement – Simple, but Not Always Easy

Logistics Bureau

How procurement handles itself and its activities set the tone for all the events that follow, right up to the final delivery of goods and services to the end-customer. For example, how would you deal with the following situations in procurement? Read on for more about these examples in the text that follows.

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Limping to war

Logistics in War

For example, American commentators go so far as saying there is a ‘crisis’ in flagging a range of contemporary preparedness problems within the US Department of Defense including aviation incidents, capability gaps created with lower Defence budgets, and inadequate logistics support to the fielded force.