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Exiger Has Taken the Supply Chain Risk Market by Storm

Logistics Viewpoints

These solutions use natural language processing, for example, to read online publications and other data sources, make sense of what they read, contextualize the data into information, and report supply chain disruptions caused by weather, geopolitical events and other hazards in near real-time.

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The Future of Logistics with Courtney Muller

The Logistics of Logistics

The logistics industry is changing fast. On today’s episode of The Logistics of Logistics Podcast, host Joe Lynch sits down with Courtney Muller. Courney is a Strategic Event Executive and the Chief Corporate Development Officer and President of Manifest at Connectiv, a live event studio based in NYC. How are you?

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COVID Has Fundamentally Changed the Profession of Supply Chain Management

Logistics Viewpoints

The toilet paper shortage was one of the COVID era events that taught people what the term “supply chain management” meant. But the difficulty in finding workers has becoming a huge challenge at many factories and warehouses. But these events were not predictable – they might happen, they might not. They are not.

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Blue Yonder Shakes Up the Supply Chain Software Market

Logistics Viewpoints

Unexpected events occur. But more commonly, there are downside surprises—customers lower the volume they want on an order, delay their order, or ask to rush the order; there are manufacturing problems, logistics problems, and staffing issues, to name the most obvious downside risks. More than 5.6

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Floridia to head Gefco’s Innovation Factory

Automotive Logistics

Logistics provider Gefco has appointed Valérie Floridia (pictured) as director of the company’s Innovation Factory. The innovation factory is open all year, enabling candidates to submit projects any time to a screening committee of internal experts who select the most promising concepts.

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Circular Supply Chains with Deborah Dull

The Logistics of Logistics

She is a sought after author and speaker having been published in various books, articles, and white papers and spoken at dozens of industry events. Brands are already selling the idea they are sustainable, so it is important that logistics and supply chain companies become more sustainable. Small factory trend or in-door farming.

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Freight Procurement is a Different Game

Logistics Viewpoints

That processing event determines when the goods need to be delivered to the next stop. That factory also aims to rapidly process the raw materials into product. It was quickly determined that a procurement event was necessary just to set a baseline. Procurement ran a request for proposal event. Is this working?”