In preparing for an upcoming presentation at the Parcel Forum, we researched some future challenges and trends in Logistics and Distribution(L&D) and were somewhat surprised by what we found. Here is the list (in random order): Risk Management/Contingency Planning Talent Development “Big” Data/Advanced Analytics – competence to…
The Mpower Group is excited to announce it’s CEO, Dalip Raheja, will be a keynote presenter for two IACCM webinars, Identifying and measuring risk in the supply chain and contracting processand Implementing a risk strategy. Webinars will be on January 15th and January 22nd, respectively. The Mpower Group is in the business…
By now you have probably heard about the security fiasco and the name G4S. It’s quite an irony that London’s risk management process was itself full of risk. From what can be gathered so far, G4S was contacted to supply about 2,000 security personnel and then in December it dawned on the organizing committee that they really needed 10,000 personnel.
The question of the month from an anonymous reader was posed like this: What is the best way to manage supply chain risk?
At a recent planning call with some of the members of the Next Practices Xchange for their upcoming conference, I was asked to come up with the list of concerns that leaders in the community (Procurement, Strategic Sourcing, Supply Chain, etc. etc.) had. This was to identify the major risks that are facing the community so that a relevant agenda could be developed. I pushed back at the members and got them to acknowledge that we would be talking about only those issues that they knew about or had identified. What about all those that they had not?