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The WannaCry Cyberattack: Another Warning for Supply Chain Executives

Talking Logistics

It echoes the title of my post from last September: “ The Day a Cyber Attack Brings the World’s Supply Chains to a Halt.”. (I The French automaker Renault, for example, was forced to shut down factories across Europe. The WannaCry cyber attack is another warning for supply chain executives to stop being complacent.

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The State of Your Supply Chain Affects the Level of Your Inventory 

Blue Grace Logistics

The right inventory, at the right time, at the right point in the supply chain is crucial for the success of the business. For example, the shortage of raw material at the factory will affect production. Carrying cost is the cost incurred to store, handle, and maintain inventory at every stage in the supply chain.

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US-China Relations may Reshape Global trade in the Future

ShipLilly

On the 11th of December 2001, China joined the World Trade Organization. This article examines the potential changes in globalized and diversified supply chains. For example, the speedy rise of China as the trading nation of first choice has tapered off. Diversified Sourcing.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] The History of Shipping Containers

GlobalTranz

As a logistics service provider, focusing on over-the-road surface transportation management solutions via technology and managed transportation services, we find the following information on the history of shipping containers of great significance to the logistics and supply chain community at large. Did You Know That …. Significance.

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Initiating a new national support approach – mobilising national logistics in the support of military operations

Logistics in War

Supply chains are ‘strangling strategy’, with the movement of commodities so significant an issue that logistics is securitising. [1] The establishment of the Defence Materiel Organisation in 2001 saw the Division disbanded, with its functions reallocated across Defence. 1] Beaumont, D., 2] Beaumont, D., 3] Marles, R.,

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Why Is It So Hard to Find Good Help These Days?

Material Handling and Logistics

MH&L’s Editorial Advisory Board tackles some of the toughest topics facing the supply chain today. That’s why we went to the experts—the members of the MH&L Editorial Advisory Board—and asked them to weigh in on that subject, and on several other of the most pressing concerns to supply chain professionals.