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Baltimore Bridge Collapse: An Opportunity to Reinforce the Importance of Supply Chain Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

According to a widely cited framework by Christopher and Peck from “Building the Resilient Supply Chain” (2004), supply chain resilience consists of four dimensions: robustness, agility, redundancy, and flexibility. These dimensions are briefly defined and illustrated below.

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Disaster Management & Logistics

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

However, the most difficult to prevent and avoid are Rapid onset natural disasters, such as the gigantic Tsunami of 2004, in Japan, that caused many deaths. Finally, a strong analysis of the damages and the execution of this disaster management have to be done, in order to extract information and prevent future cases of disaster.

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Industry View: Today is Peak Packaging Monday

Logistics Business Magazine

However in contrast, when looking to the high street, analysis firm Springboard discovered that shopping centres and retail parks footfall figures were down 3.6% Kite’s ecommerce division was introduced in 2004 and has been continuously evolving since. in comparison with the previous year, according to online retailers trade body IMRG.

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An interview with Norm Jerome: BP

AIMMS

Around 2004 we started a project to migrate an existing tool for planning for the BP Petrochemical Aromatics business over to AIMMS. Take scheduling for example. Another scheduling example comes from a fleet of barges we operate to move liquids. How long have you been using AIMMS?

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An interview with Norm Jerome: BP

AIMMS

Around 2004 we started a project to migrate an existing tool for planning for the BP Petrochemical Aromatics business over to AIMMS. Take scheduling for example. Another scheduling example comes from a fleet of barges we operate to move liquids. How long have you been using AIMMS?

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Applying History’s Lessons to New Resiliency Plans

CH Robinson Logistics

However, we saw similar supply chain outages associated with the 2004 Tsunami in Thailand, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and Japan’s earthquake and Tsunami in 2011. Robinson customer, is a great example of a complex, global shipper that found success in navigating the pandemic disruptions by leveraging the above capabilities.