- 21. Automotive Supply Chain Partners Need Support
- (News)
- ... 2 component manufacturers should avoid severing relationships with businesses further down their supply chains and look for ways to support them on the way to recovery. Doing so could give them a competitive ...
- 22. Declining Prices of IoT Sensors Is Extending Penetration Farther into Manufacturing Processes
- (Technology)
- ... can make use of this strategy by expanding it to their respective areas of business. Internet of Things can help manufacturing companies with asset recovery. Considering the high cost of shipping and ...
- 23. How FedEx and UPS are helping victims of Hurricane Dorian
- (Logistics)
- ... and serve communities when they need us most.” He went on to say, “These efforts are just the beginning of our commitment to the long-term recovery of the impacted areas.” Like FedEx and UPS - the supply ...
- 24. eX² Technology Launches Ground-Breaking Smart Truck Parking System
- (News)
- ... a $25M federal Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant awarded to a group of eight partnering states – Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin. ...
- 25. Supply Chain Hit by Natural Disasters
- (News)
- Recent natural disasters have disrupted the supply chain, reports Supply Chain Quarterly. Which proves that it is imperative for the industry to have a solid plan for supply chain recovery in the event ...
- 26. Supply Chain Recovery
- (News)
- Recent natural disasters have disrupted the supply chain, reports Supply Chain Quarterly. Which proves that it is imperative for the industry to have a solid plan for supply chain recovery in the event ...
- 27. Nintendo Kicks Switch Supply Chain into High Gear
- (News)
- According to Supply Chain Dive, Nintendo is addressing a critical shortage of its Switch device by ramping up its supply chain to bring 18 million more devices to market to meet demand. Read the ...
- 28. Are You Treading Water with Cost Reduction?
- (News)
- The Supply Chain Shaman is using the 'treading water' anology to describe where supply chains seem to be with cost reduction efforts. There's been progress in some industries over the past few years, but ...
- 29. Scary Supply Chain Stories
- (News)
- In a rather timely article, Teresa Chiykowski celebrates Halloween by writing about supply chain disasters that still haunt retailers well after they occurred. From pumpkin shortages to technology misses, ...
- 30. Focus on Managing the Right Risk
- (News)
- We're always one disaster away from disaster, right? When we're doing our risk management planning, we're not necessary solving the right problem, according to Pierre Mitchell.On the Spend Matters site, ...
- 31. Risk Management Becomes Top of Mind
- (News)
- Everyone believes in risk management, but sometimes it takes a real disaster to get things moving. The latest bankruptcy news about Hanjin Shipping is an example of a non-weather related disaster that ...
- 32. Cloud ERP for Manufacturers
- (News)
- Yes, there are still people around who are afraid of cloud-based ERP. Their reasons may be legitimate, or it may be they're not aware of all the benefits and how successfully the issues of the past have ...
- 33. Preparing for Disruption
- (News)
- Remember when a natural disaster overseas had no real effect on our business? Those days are long gone, and disruptions not only impact global supply chains but their costs are skyrocketing.The Strategic ...
- 34. Businesses Lack Risk Management Plans
- (News)
- When a disaster hits, it's great to have detailed continuity plans in place to mitigate its effects. Unfortunately, according to Gary Barraco on the Manufacturing Business Technology site, a large percentage ...
- 35. Time-to-Survive Explained
- (News)
- When any supply chain manager looks at risk, he or she typically starts to sweat. Now, imagine you're running one of the world's biggest manufacturing companies that's dependent upon multiple tiers of ...
- 36. Supply Chain Pros Say Data Loss Is Greatest Risk
- (Technology)
- ... predicting the trends that will impact small business service providers in 2015. The report indicated the demand for disaster recovery solutions will surge this year, contradicting the general perception ...
- 37. Logistics and IT - Made for Each Other
- (Logistics)
- ... that branch locations don’t need local IT support. Instant data recovery. If a single location is impacted by a power outage or worse, the data is still resident in the central facility and can be accessed ...
- 38. Evaluating a 3PL
- (News)
- On the Forbes site, Steve Banker provides some ideas on how to evaluate 3PLs when looking for a partner to help with operations. He looks at what types of metrics, data, and IT capabilities might be needed.Since ...
- 39. Where's Your Recovery Plan
- (Technology)
- When the norm for computer operations was locating all computing resources within a single location IT concentrated on maintaining frequent and accessible backups to the company data. Copies of the backup ...
- 40. GXS - A New Start? Again?
- (EDI)
- ... time, recovery for the VAN was a long shot. But I'm surprisingly (even to myself) encouraged about the prospects of the combination of OpenText and GXS. But first to the finances. According to OpenText ...
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