Supply Chain Risk

How strengthening physical security—through unified video surveillance, access control, and advanced detection technologies—is essential to mitigating rising supply chain risks and ensuring operational resilience amid evolving global threats.

In this Insider Q&A, Walker and Beisler-Snell discuss the current risks companies are facing, the role of regional banks in the global supply chain space, and how these trusted partners can help decrease risk through better visibility and financial tool automation.

As shippers continue to pivot toward more emerging markets, supply chains need to be redesigned with economic diversification, sustainability and resilience in mind.

Logistics Management Group News Editor Jeff Berman recently caught up with Richard Howells, VP of Solution Marketing for SAP Digital Supply Chain. Howells provided a detailed overview of how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted logistics and supply chain operations, as well as key aspects of inventory management, and what we may expect a year from now, among other topics.

In addition to working closely with the non-profit and emergency response community, ALAN is monitoring the real-time path and supply chain impacts of the storm.

In this podcast, Jeff Berman, Group News Editor for Logistics Management and Peerless Media Supply Chain Group, interviews Tim Fiore, Chairman of the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) Manufacturing Business Survey Committee.

With the coronavirus, or COVID-19, dominating just about every facet of everyday life, its impact on all things supply chain cannot be understated. That was made clear in a recent Logistics Management readership survey of more than 120 buyers and users of freight transportation and logistics services.

Sure, we all know that restaurants and casinos are closing up shop, but yesterday, I had my first corona-related logistics experience.

In this webcast Daniel Biran, VP-Global Security, Biogen and Joe Carson, Chief Strategy Officer, Resilinc, will speak on how Biogen was able to utilize its Global Security Operations Center and the Resilinc’s supply chain intelligence/tools to streamline cross-departmental communications, identify supply chain vulnerabilities, and enable proactive risk mitigation and crisis management activities in the face of the recent string of major natural disasters including Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Irma, the Mexico City earthquake, and Hurricane Maria.

In an era where effective supply chain collaboration is both highly valued and elusive, Logistics Management and SMC³ shine the spotlight on some of the nation’s best examples in its annual awards ceremony.

AsiaInspection (AI), a global provider of quality control services for businesses importing from the Pacific Rim, maintains that logistics managers should pay more attention to risk—irrespective of region.

Senior Marine Risk Consultant at AGCS says "a perfect storm" of increasing regulation and narrowing margins is looming

Supply chain managers are being told that three of the most pressing risks to business performance in the 21st century are cyber attack, natural hazards and supply chain failure.

Chief risk officers often present to their boards detailed laundry lists of risks, heat maps with probabilities and impacts for every conceivable risk, as well as contingency plans for every worst-case scenario short of the “zombie apocalypse.” Managing Supply Chain Risk, Risk Management in the company supply chain.

One area of risk that may not be easily recognized is supply chain staffing and background checks.