Risk Management

Logistics and supply chain leaders are keeping an eye on escalating tensions overseas, drought conditions in the Panama Canal, and emerging cybersecurity headaches. Here are a few proactive strategies for navigating an evolving supply chain landscape where new risks continue to lurk around every corner.

Do you think you already have enough to worry about with the obvious and known risks and have no time to address hidden risks? Rethink that approach. The risk of doing nothing could be disastrous to your business.

Regardless of how many years of experience one has, managing supply chain and logistics operations through periods of risk and challenging times requires equal helpings of resourcefulness and resilience, among other key factors. That was a key theme in a session at this week’s SMC3 Connections conference in Orlando, Fla., which included Tom Nightingale, CEO, AFS Logistics, Tom Schmitt, President, CEO, and Director, Forward Air, and Brad Stewart, Treasurer and SVP-Investor Relations, Knight-Swift.

Uncover New Insights on Risk Management and Fine Reduction with our Webcast - How to Eliminate Fines, Manage Risk, & Establish Trust in Your Supply Chain Post-pandemic.

Beyond the storm: how organizations can transition from survive to thrive in 2023

A comprehensive guide to compliance risks and pitfalls for modern supply chains.

In this ebook, discover five reasons to double-down on supply chain risk management, plus how to do it.

This paper takes a look at the turbulent state of the world and how it's impacting various aspects of supply chain management.

Now that the worst of it seems to be over, it’s time to take action to mitigate any future risk of supply chain disruptions. Developing a tool or using an existing software tool for assessing risk will help identify the weak links in your supply chain—but a tool alone is not enough.

The pandemic brought unprecedented long-term stressors to supply chains worldwide. Does hindsight tell us anything about how to be better prepared? Can artificial intelligence (AI) possibly help with disruptions of this magnitude? This e2open study provides some answers.

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

Download the Guide to Minimizing Risk in Contract Management and learn the steps leading organizations are taking to successfully identify, assess and mitigate risk in their supply chain contracts.

The supply chain took center stage during the pandemic, and now 64% of shippers are evaluating or implementing supply chain risk event monitoring tools and 73% are doing the same with supply chain visibility and multi-tier mapping applications.

Logistics Management Group News Editor Jeff Berman recently spoke with Glenn Koepke, GM, Network Collaboration, for Chicago-based FourKites, a provider of real-time tracking and visibility solutions across transportation modes and digital platforms. Koepke provided Berman with an overview of the impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict on North American supply chain and logistics operations, rates, capacity, and other topics.

Read the report to find out the five questions we need to answer for 2022 and get data to help enable your organizations to achieve long term resilience.