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5 examples of the black swan theory

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Today we are going to find out what the black swan theory means, how it affects the economy and the society overall and several examples of how the black swan events have changed the words. SARS pandemic in 2002-2004 sped up the growth of the small company Alibaba, which traded over the Internet. Now it is a retail leader in Asia.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 24 – 30)

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And now to this week’s logistics news…. since 2004, hit an all-time high of 4,586 points in late March. This sounds like another example of supply chain whiplash (start and stop) to me. The post This Week in Logistics News (September 24 – 30) appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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

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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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Logistics of Olympic Games

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The Olympic Games are always carrying sportive but also economical promises – for the 2024 Games in Paris, 150 000 jobs are expected to be created, and 30% of them in the realm of logistics (the rest in construction and tourism). The logistics planning for Paris 2024 is for the first time aligned with the Paris Agreement of 2015.

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Disaster Management & Logistics

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In this subject, we have talked a lot about how Supply & Logistics Management became a key component inside companies. Highly developed logistics models have been developed, and now gigantic retailers like Amazon are able to fulfill a large part of the world on a wide range of objects. The stages of Disaster Logistics.

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Toilet paper and total war – the psychology of shortages and what it means for resilience

Logistics in War

The impact of this turbulence on essentially fragile national logistics, commerce and industry capability is starkly evident and has forced the nation to consider its national resilience. Preparedness systems fail, logistics processes collapse, and command struggles to regain control.

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Panama’s Export Business Thrives

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According to Inbound Logistics, the heart of the ambitious undertaking was the construction of a new set of locks on both the Atlantic and Pacific sides of the waterway and the excavation of more than 150 million cubic meters of material. “The This will also reduce the shipper’s expenditure on logistics. Spanish Language.