Historically, organizations have relied on static risk assessments and due diligence processes to evaluate their suppliers. This involves vetting vendors using questionnaires, compliance audits, and ...

There are two concrete steps worth taking, and both come down to knowing your own operation before you're under pressure.

Logistics professionals are worried about their ability to plan for the future. At least, that’s one takeaway from our June 2025 survey, which found that “major unforeseen disruptions” are a major ...

Over the past year, have you felt like your team is reacting to yet another supply chain crisis rather than spending time on strategic activities? I’m guessing that most of us in tech might sheepishly ...

Israel's electronic pager attacks targeting Hezbollah in September highlighted the dangerous ramifications of a weaponized supply chain. The attacks, which leveraged remotely detonated explosives ...

Artificial intelligence has taken hold across the enterprise, but nowhere does it face a bigger challenge than in third-party risk management. As explained in this week’s Talking Supply Chain, AI ...

For generations of supply chain leaders, the key words and phrases that dominated were optimization, rationalization, cost reduction, inventory reduction and so on. The basic performance of the supply ...

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The global supply chain is both a broad-reaching system and the core of every business. It allows us to connect consumers in Kansas and Wyoming to everything from the spices of India and grains of ...

Analyst Insight: Only 30% of organizations have visibility beyond tier 1 suppliers, according to McKinsey. The other 70% are unaware of supplier vulnerabilities, geopolitical risks and compliance gaps ...

Since the pandemic, supply chain disruptions have become a regular challenge for manufacturers. They can happen at any time, and have a significant impact on operations. To avoid or minimize the ...