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Supply chain risk management in 2017

Kinaxis

Working in supply chain is like starring in a Rocky movie. You don’t need to go back any further than a decade to understand the many challenges supply chains have endured over the years. Supply chains had to deal with squeezing margins and dramatically cut costs, which included significant downsizing.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 24 – 30)

Logistics Viewpoints

Nike Earnings Reflect Supply Chain Disruption Complexities. In 2017, Flytrex successfully launched the world’s first fully autonomous urban drone delivery system in Reykjavik, Iceland, and we covered that initiative in these pages on June 15, 2018. This sounds like another example of supply chain whiplash (start and stop) to me.

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Molex Prizes Agility

Logistics Viewpoints

Digital Twin from Infor Nexus Drives Supply Chain Agility for Molex. The fact that most manufacturers struggled to achieve supply chain agility during COVID is not news. The Molex Supply Chain. The Molex global supply chain is complex. It is part of Koch Industries. The Advantages of Agility.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 9 – 15)

Logistics Viewpoints

The latest capability for merchants shows that the e-commerce giant is trying to control more inventory deeper in the supply chain before it’s sold. Amazon on Tuesday announced that the service, which is currently in a pilot test, will be more broadly available later this year.

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Resilience and Agility in Supply Chains: Navigating Change in a Dynamic World

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Resilience and Agility in Supply Chains: Navigating Change in a Dynamic World Feature Article by J eroen Hendriks , Director at Art of Supply Chain Sdn Bhd The global business landscape has become increasingly complex and volatile, posing significant challenges to supply chain management.

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Supply Chain Agenda of Hildur Gylfadóttir, Supply Chain Manager at Össur

Supply Chain Movement

“The supply chain role is to support innovation and still be efficient”. Hildur Gylfadóttir, Supply Chain Manager, Logistics, Össur. While R&D remains in Iceland it has operational centers in the Americas, Europe, Asia and it employs around 2,300 people across 18 locations. By Helen Armstrong.

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Reflective Thinking: Complexity

Logility

On a recent webcast Noha Tohamy, research vice president, Gartner, posed several questions one should ask to help identify their distinct supply chain and sort through the complexity. Some of her questions included: Is demand or supply variability the issue you want to define your supply chain?

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