Hurricane Ike and the Importance of Visibility September 15, 2008
Posted by Jonathan Gatrell in Supply Chain Visibility.Tags: Galveston, Hurricane Ike, Risk assessment, supply chain disruptions, supply chains
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The events of the last few days have led me to thinking about how critical visibility, and the ability to deduce consequence and take action, is to the success of both our business and personal lives. As horrific as the damage, and ongoing difficulties, caused by hurricane Ike have been and will be, it’s important to remember what happened before we had visibility into the formation of storms thousands of miles from landfall and the ability to forecast strength, path and risk so that action could be taken. Two million people evacuated from the Galveston/Houston area in an orderly fashion and without panic. In 1900, none of these forecasting capabilities existed and a major hurricane killed more than 12,000 people in Galveston. Following the hurricane, action was taken to protect the city which, with the forecasting technology that has developed in the last 100 years, has made all the difference.
Managing Suppliers Webcast August 27, 2008
Posted by Meg Suggs in Actionable Intelligence, Business Community Management, News, Supply Chain Visibility.Tags: AMR Research, Erik Huddleston, Inovis Webcast, Mickey North Rizza
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While companies continually strive to improve visibility into inbound transactions and shipment of goods, they repeatedly hit walls due to issues like historically high gas prices and the increasing complexity of supply chains attributed to globalization . Other regional events such as a natural disaster, social unrest or other disturbances can affect the movement of goods, and changed customs requirements across different countries can result in drastically delayed shipments.
Question of the week July 25, 2008
Posted by Meg Suggs in Actionable Intelligence, Inovis Solutions, Supply Chain Visibility, question of the week.Tags: business mistakes, disaster recovery
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Everybody makes mistakes, and it’s not so much that you make the mistakes, but how you fix them. That’s why we decided to make our question of the week:
What is the biggest disaster to ever hit your supply chain? What caused this dilemma and how did your company recover from the situation?
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Reflections Upon RFID July 24, 2008
Posted by Meg Suggs in Supply Chain Visibility, Technology.Tags: barcodes, RFID
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After I posted a piece about RFID Tuesday, I received a few great e-mails from blog readers. It seems that there is definitely a generated interest in Radio Frequency Identification. And with great reason. As Trent Horne once said, “It’s the cool technology that nobody’s using.”
So, I’d like to reverse the roles and ask blog readers for their opinion about RFID. My question is, when do you think RFID will replace barcodes completely? Do you think it will ever happen?
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