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

Logistics Viewpoints

Supply chain resilience is a hot topic the last few years since post-Covid issues and newsworthy incidents like the Houthi attacks in the red sea have raised awareness. The bridge collapse is a stark reminder of the vulnerability of the nation’s aging infrastructure and the importance of supply chain resilience.

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Inbound vs. Outbound Logistics: Understanding the Key Differences and Optimizing the Last Mile

Locus

In the vast, interconnected world of supply chain management, two terms often come into focus—inbound and outbound logistics. Both are crucial elements of a well-functioning supply chain, yet they serve different purposes and face unique challenges. What is outbound logistics?

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Inbound Logistics vs. Outbound Logistics

Ship Monk

Today, we’re talking about the difference between inbound logistics and outbound logistics. At a glance, inbound logistics and outbound logistics refer to the different stages that goods go through while moving down the supply chain. Outbound Logistics. Each logistics aspect is tied to transportation.

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Autoliv’s Supply Chain Risk Management Journey

Logistics Viewpoints

In February, Klaus Niebur, the director of global supply chain risk management at Autoliv, and Jan Thiessen, the managing director at targetP!, spoke on best practices on supply chain risk management at ARC Advisory Group’s Digital Transformation in Industry conference. The implementation was not trivial.

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Supply chain resilience and responsiveness go hand in hand

FreightWaves SONAR

Supply chain optimization is often presented as a choice between resilience and responsiveness — between being able to withstand and operate normally under conditions of disruption and stress and being able to quickly flex capacity and throughput up or down opportunistically. Chart: FreightWaves SONAR.

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Optimizing Your Store’s Ecommerce Supply Chain

Ship Monk

There are a lot of moving parts to managing an ecommerce supply chain. It’s called a supply chain for a reason; there are many links, and if any one of them breaks, the chain no longer functions. Today we’re going to take a look at a typical ecommerce supply chain from beginning to end.

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Making strategic investments in digital supply chain in a downcycle

FreightWaves SONAR

At its annual Investment Community Meeting in April in Tampa, Florida, Walmart’s management team took the opportunity to lay out an ambitious transformation of its supply chain. So we built an ambient supply chain that served stores. Walmart U.S. As our store footprint grew, that network grew. Now that’s changing.