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Savvy Supply Chain Leaders Aren’t Letting a Good Downturn Go to Waste

Logistics Viewpoints

But we’re also seeing many of the supply chain industry’s biggest digital pioneers displaying real moxie in recognizing the opportunity in front of them. A famous 2010 HBR article, “Roaring Out of Recession,” studied how 4,700 public companies fared during the recessions of 1980, 1990, and 2000. Reduced working capital.

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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. I am updating writing and research on the supply chain collaboration network market. As such, their offerings warrant attention.

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Battered But Not Broken

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While the full impact of COVID-19 on Canada’s food supply chain will be the subject of study for some time to come, the crisis did expose vulnerabilities and raise concerns about the resilience of the system. “A Most companies discovered that their supply chains were not as resilient as they thought, says Kilpatrick.

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The Definition of Transparency

Blue Grace Logistics

As it is with most problems there is a lack of a clear and concise definition, according to an MIT study which conducted a survey of the apparel industry only to find wildly different results. So in order to begin understanding transparency in the supply chain, we first need to define it. So Why Aren’t All Companies on Board?

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Takeaways from the IBM Watson Supply Chain Summit

Talking Logistics

Take EDI, for example. IBM Case Study: Supply Chain Intelligence, Watson, and Resolution Rooms. Ron Castro, IBM’s Chief Supply Chain Officer. One of the highlights from the summit was Ron Castro’s presentation about IBM’s journey toward creating an AI powered Supply Chain.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 6-10, 2017)

Talking Logistics

FMCSA confirms permanent ‘restart rollback’ based on study results (CCJ). For example, goods from Schneider Electric were transported on a Maersk Line container vessel from the Port of Rotterdam to the Port of Newark in a pilot with the Customs Administration of the Netherlands under an EU research project. WSJ – sub.

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Digitalisation: quicker off the blocks

Automotive Logistics

Blockchain digitalisation introduces a new concept of offering shared documentation and transactional data to the stakeholders engaged in a shipment, while “blocking” outsiders from manipulating or altering key data. A cloud-based solution is the best channel for shared documentation.”