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Build a Digital Playbook Beyond Scenarios to Thrive in Uncertainty

Logistics Viewpoints

The digital twin, for example, can be subjected to numerous stress tests that mimic real-world conditions and observe how different variables interact and impact the entire network. For example, the analysis from stress testing can reveal a particular supplier or production resource is a frequent point of failure under high-demand scenarios.

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No Supply Chain Strategy? Here’s How to Develop One

Logistics Bureau

As a result, and as we’ve mentioned in several previously published articles, we’ve discovered that many companies lack a defined and documented supply chain strategy. For example, you don’t want to assume that a single logistics strategy and service approach will meet all your customers’ needs. It may do, but how do you know?

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The Promise and Peril of Generative AI for Supply Chains

Logistics Viewpoints

I’ve seen our own R&D team test some very cool applications and have been following the news closely in search of other examples relevant to supply chain. Beyond these targeted examples, I see even more promise in broader applications: code generation, knowledge management, and user interfaces.

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Sustaining National Defence – logistics investment in the National Defence Strategy

Logistics in War

There are, of course, many other examples where assumptions had led to risks being accepted in advance of war, and preparedness failures occurred as a result. The media, think-tanks and all sorts of commentators have followed Ukraine’s experience of invasion to find another prompt that something should be done.

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Consumer Packaged Goods: How CPG Shipping Works

GoShip Blog

Some examples of CPGs are personal hygiene products, food, beverages, and cosmetics. Conditions such as the freight container’s temperatures and the care exercised during loading and unloading are carefully considered when transporting specialty goods. One such example is a Rolls Royce. What is Consumer Packaging?

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Industry View: The Importance of Supply Chain Resilience

Logistics Business Magazine

Creating supply chain resilience is a holistic exercise that involves more than just a few savvy logistics people. As mentioned, this should not be an exercise limited to supply chain professionals. licenses, documentation, permits, etc.), Unpredictable is not a reason to be unprepared. Risk Assessment.

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A Lean Leadership Pocket Card

The Lean Thinker

Here’s an example: Say your plant has a set of rules about how fork trucks are to be operated – speed limits, staying out of marked pedestrian lanes, etc. Do you have “standard work” documents that are rarely followed? Sometimes that gap is small. Sometimes it is huge. Develop and apply countermeasure.