Browsing: Supply Chain Risk

The past year has seen some major challenges for supply chain professionals with natural disasters such as tsunamis and floods disrupting operations. Not surprisingly mitigating supply chain risk has moved sharply up the executive agenda

Almost a third (32 per cent) of logistics firms run the risk of not capitalising on the economic opportunity of the Olympics because they are not making basic preparations such as plans to deal with staff absenteeism or adapting their delivery schedules,

Sedex, the collaborative platform for sharing ethical supply chain data, has launched a risk assessment tool as part of its efforts to drive improvements in global supply chains and reduce duplication in ethical auditing

It’s time to start thinking about making supply chains shorter, reducing the risk of disruption and high cost increases, says a new report published by the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport