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Low-impact Incidents Are One Thing, But Are You Ready for a Major Disruption to Your Supply Chain?

As manufacturers seek to source quality goods at the lowest cost, supply chains that were once confined to a single country or continent have stretched around the world. Managers have become adept at addressing recurrent risks—frequent, low-impact incidents such as demand fluctuations or supply delays that affect efficiency. However, they have devoted less energy to designing supply chains that prevent or mitigate the impact of disruptive risks such as labor strikes, political unrest, regulatory shifts, and natural disasters. These events can have severe and lasting repercussions on operations, so manufacturers would do well to devise strategies that alleviate this risk.

Open-source Software Cuts Into Data Mining Vendors' Profits

While recent innovations in the software sector have significantly boosted capabilities for most software products, free open-source software solutions have made an even bigger splash. More than half of all data mining tasks are now conducted using open-source software, displacing the purchase of proprietary software.

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Now That China Has Torpedoed P3 Alliance, Where Do Maersk, MSC and CMA CGM Go From Here?

China's regulators have blocked the P3 mega-alliance between Maersk, MSC and CMA CGM on the grounds that it infringes the country's competition laws between Asia and Europe, particularly with respect to the lines' combined market share of 46.7 percent. The law enforcers appear to believe that the cost reductions gained by the P3 carriers would either have been offset by this unacceptably high risk of market concentration, or would not have been passed back to shippers satisfactorily. Where to now?

Report Measures Use, Impact of Plastic in CPG Sector, Urges Sustainability Initiatives

The total natural capital cost of plastic in the consumer goods industry is more than $75bn per year, according to research released by the Plastic Disclosure Project, the UN Environment Programme and natural capital analysts Trucost.

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Gartner's User Survey Reveals Key Business Drivers

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Disruptive Technology and Supply-Chain Excellence at 3M

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UL Expands Information & Insights Division

UL LLC, the safety consulting and certification company, has expanded its Information & Insights (I&I) services division with the acquisitions of GoodGuide, IDES, Innovadex and The Wercs.

Deloitte Teams With LLamasoft for Supply-Chain Risk Management

The Deloitte & Touche LLP consultancy has teamed up with LLamasoft Inc., a provider of supply-chain design software, to provide risk-management services to global companies.

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Solar Supply Chain Revenues Predicted to Increase in 2014

Analysis from IHS Technology forecasts a solid upturn for the global solar PV supply chain sector after a weak first six months of the year.

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What Defines a Leading Supply Chain?

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S&OP: Cutting Through the Confusion

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