Revered playwrite George Bernard Shaw once said “Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” Recently there was a highly-publicized construction project close to my neighborhood east of Toronto, Canada. The new office building was to be the centerpiece of a business improvement area revitalization [...]
You can lead an equestrian to water, but you can’t make it drink. In spite of continued warnings over the past three or four years, many medium-sized businesses in the UK seem ill-prepared to deal with potential disruptions to their supply chains, which might result from natural disasters, labor unrest, pandemics, social upheaval, or dislocation [...]
Sometimes, it takes a tragedy to drag the supply chain into the spotlight. In spite of our best intentions, things go wrong. Occasionally, things go terribly wrong. Failure in the supply chain can be a matter of life and death. It is up to supply chain practitioners to prevent such tragedies by building secure and [...]
The level of supply chain risk to which US Federal Information Systems are exposed varies directly with the level of sophistication of information and communication technologies (ICT), and the increasing complexities of global supply chains. This is the opening premise of a study undertaken by the NIST on behalf of the US Department of Commerce. [...]
The importance of managing risk through the supply chain has become painfully evident as a result of natural disasters which have occurred in recent months and years. Not withstanding the obvious human cost and tragedy that ensued, catastrophes caused by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, flooding in Thailand, factory explosions in Germany, and volcanic [...]
In the 21st Century, managing risk, including setting down action plans to follow in the event of a natural catastrophe, is a major concern for governments, businesses, NGO’s, and individuals in the 21st century. That we are very concerned about the human cost of natural disasters, pandemics, and civil unrest – including terrorist attacks – [...]
The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are among the busiest in the world, and as a result, inland Southern California has grown to become an enormous distribution hub, attracting numerous third party logistics providers (3PL’s). It is within this environment of tremendous opportunity that developer Highland Fairview and its president and CEO, Iddo [...]
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