Friday, July 31, 2020 · Tom Enright
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, classifying businesses as essential or non-essential for a locked-down world has drastically changed shopping demand.
Thursday, July 30, 2020 · Dijam Panigrahi
Logistics and supply chain outfits across the country have deployed business continuity response teams to build coordinated efforts that bring together technology, operations, communications, and HR to build a set of policies, processes and procedures to keep everyone safe.
Thursday, July 30, 2020 · Patrick Burnson
With the ongoing pandemic crisis, it is heartening to learn that new strides in humanitarian supply chains are being made by leading providers of national distribution services.
Tuesday, July 28, 2020 · Catherine Dame and Abdelrahman Hefny
Researchers at MIT’s Center for Transportation & Logistics explored the use of carbon offsets to leverage sustainability commitments to drive investment in green transport systems through projects like fleet renewal programs.
Tuesday, July 28, 2020 · Rosemary Coates
Be sure you are updating your plans annually. Talk to other companies in your industry about their disaster planning. Look for best practices and good ideas from other companies and incorporate these into your own plan. We must do better to prepare for the next disaster…
Monday, July 27, 2020 · Patrick Burnson
Supply chain managers will benefit from reassessing their sourcing and distribution networks, including tier suppliers and key network links and nodes.
Tuesday, July 21, 2020 · Patrick Burnson
While supply chain organizations deal with the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, they still pursue gender equality goals. According to Gartner, Inc.’s 2020 Women in Supply Chain Survey among 177 supply chain professionals, 17% of chief supply chain officers are now women…
Monday, July 20, 2020 · Mostafa Sayyadi
Success in today’s global business environment can be more effective when executives can manifest themselves as change agents who reshape, and in some cases, manipulate corporate culture to better apply knowledge and create competitive advantage.
Monday, July 20, 2020 · Patrick Burnson
The latest report from Resilience360 and Business Continuity Institute (BCI), entitled "COVID19: The Future of Supply Chains" shows the devastating impact the pandemic has had on supply chains, with 73% of organizations encountering ‘some’ or ‘significant’…
Sunday, July 19, 2020 · Rohan Thambrahalli
With companies across the globe restarting operations in the new normal, executive leaders are balancing the standard way of doing business against the innovation needed to build growth in 2020.
Tuesday, July 14, 2020 · Patrick Burnson
Descartes Datamyne – a leading global trade database of up-to-date import-export information - unveiled its annual 2020 U.S. Ports Report.
Friday, July 10, 2020 · Patrick Burnson
While this program would not make whole those who have lost revenues as a result of this pandemic, it would ensure that no port misses a debt payment or is forced to lay off staff related to this or future natural disasters.
Wednesday, July 8, 2020 · Patrick Burnson
SOTI releases “The Last Mile Sprint: State of Mobility in Transportation and Logistics” global report which finds a mobile-first strategy is critical for last-mile delivery
Thursday, July 2, 2020 · Diego Pantoja-Navajas
Software resilience gives organizations the ability to pivot in the face of market pressures and evolve to meet changes in customer trends, and disruptions to individual markets or the global economy.
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