Identifying Supply Chain Risk

The added features to DHL’s Resilience360 coincide with a new whitepaper which argues that the globalization rush has led to lean, complex and highly intertwined supply chains at a time when the risk of disruption has never been greater.

Next-gen LLP: Driving new business value in an unpredictable world’ details how supply chain operators are seeking alternative efficiency and resilient solutions by partnering with lead logistics providers (LLP).

According to DHL, these partnerships go beyond transaction-based solutions providers of the past to strategic partners who deliver competitive advantage and growth through their supply chain solutions and technological capabilities.

Lisa Harrington, President of lharrington group LLC, prepared the ‘Next-gen LLP’ report in collaboration with DHL to identify the challenges and developments affecting supply chain operators globally.

“A seemingly small event or outage in one region can and does quickly escalate into full-blown business interruption half way across the world,” she says. “The cost, complexity and expertise required to enact mitigation strategies can pose big challenges for companies with constrained staff and budgetary resources.”

At the same time, Harrington points out, competitive pressures make realizing them essential:

These realities are fueling the move to more strategic approaches to supply chain management, including the next-gen LLP model.”

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