Supply Chain Resilience

At ASCM’s CHAINge Conference, leaders from government, retail, shipping, and manufacturing underscored that resilience depends on elevating supply chains into the boardroom and building trust across sectors.

The Association for Supply Chain Management has released its Top 10 Trends for 2026, highlighting how artificial intelligence, workforce evolution, trade dynamics, resilience, and sustainability will reshape global supply chains.

Wells Fargo’s 2025 Supply Chain Report reveals a sector adapting to tariffs, shifting inventory strategies, and transportation complexity.

From earthquakes to ransomware, these 13 crises redefined how companies think about supply chain risk and resilience

In this podcast, Jeff Berman, Group News Editor for Logistics Management and the Peerless Media Supply Chain Group, interviews Rob Handfield, Professor at North Carolina State's Poole College of Management and Bank of America Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management.

Less than two weeks after Hurricane Helene made landfall, the American Logistics Aid Network (ALAN) is mobilizing for another major hurricane – and reminding supply chain professionals to take the 13th named storm of the season as seriously as they took the first.

Supply chain resiliency firm Resilinc has compiled the leading disruptions that impacted supply chains in the first half of the year

DHL, in collaboration with Emeritus Professor Richard Wilding OBE of Cranfield University, has developed a framework for it says is a path to supply chain diversification. DHL defines diversification as a “proactive approach where companies incorporate one of several dimensions into their supply chains to minimize risk.”

As Hurricane Debby makes landfall in Florida, the American Logistics Aid Network (ALAN) is urging residents of the Southeast to heed emergency management officials’ warnings about everything from safely evacuating to sheltering in place– and asking members of the logistics community to be ready to help.

Less than three months after the main spans of the Francis Scott Key Bridge became a mangled wreck in the Patapsco River, they are now almost entirely gone. And so the 700-foot wide full shipping channel was scheduled to reopen June 10 outside Baltimore.

Earlier this week, a bipartisan, supply chain-focused piece of legislation was unanimously passed through the House Committee on Energy and Commerce by a 44-0 vote. The legislation, entitled the “Promoting Resilient Supply Chains Act,” was introduced by Representatives Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE) and Larry Bucshon (R-IN).

Following the Biden administration’s release of the White House Council on Supply Chain Resilience last week, which is comprised of nearly 30 actions focused on strengthening U.S. supply chains, there has been a fair amount of follow-up and some analysis from industry stakeholders on the effort’s potential merits and benefits, at a time when the supply chain continues to receive far more attention post-pandemic than pre-pandemic, to be sure.

The White House said that this effort is focused on boosting supply chains considered critical to the country’s economic and national security while also boosting the economy on various fronts—including: enabling reliable deliveries for businesses; strengthen U.S. agriculture and food systems; and also support good-paying union jobs—and also “support the enduring reliance of America’s critical supply chains.”

With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic approaching the three-year mark next month, it is fair to say that how freight transportation, logistics and supply chain practitioners approach their operational processes has seen some changes over that time.

While there have been some positive developments, in recent days regarding new vaccines for the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, a white paper issued today sponsored by North Reading, Mass.-based TraceLink, a provider of supply chain visibility platform services for the life sciences supply chain, in collaboration with research firm IDC, highlighted the myriad challenges that the pandemic has wrought upon pharmaceutical shippers.