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Three Logistics Imperatives for Managing Uncertainty in 2022

Logistics Viewpoints

And, once again, it will be incumbent on logistics teams to deliver better, faster service, at a lower cost, to get products to market in the face of these continuing issues. As I write this in the fourth quarter of 2021, there’s just no telling what the new year will bring in terms of emerging logistics challenges.

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Emergency response: Weathering the storms

Automotive Logistics

At Ford, for example, Bong points to the use of a sophisticated forecasting, monitoring and action tool that the company started using several years ago, which maps and monitors every node in the supply chain. The problem is that, whilst logistics chains have evolved, the insurance risk assessments sometimes lag behind.”.

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Disaster recovery: Prepared for the worst?

Automotive Logistics

And freely available programming tools make available a means of interrogating social media accounts for a selection of keywords. Evolution, which is owned by Canadian logistics group Metro Supply Chain, recently launched a critical project service to manage such operations specifically.