All Things Supply Chain has qualified as a finalist in two categories in the 2020 Supply Chain Brief MVP Awards! Supply Chain Brief has brought together the best content from hundreds of industry leaders. These awards recognize the Most Valuable Posts, as judged by their readers, award committee and machine intelligence and social media. They recognize the posts which provide the highest value to industry professionals.
The articles that have been nominated are:
- Transport & Freight category: WARNING: Handling Dangerous Cargo written by Kelly Barner
- Other category: Our Current Supply Chain Concept is Failing: Why change has got to come in 2020 written by Emilia Ashton
WARNING: Handling Dangerous Cargo
Kelly Barner highlighted to supply chain managers the need to be aware of the potential danger represented by the materials that move through their own supply chains, or adjacent supply chains, which share warehousing and logistics capacity. Kelly used two examples: On August 4th 2020, 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate that was being stored in a facility at Beirut’s port caught fire and exploded. In 2018 in the US, a can of aerosol bear repellant fell off the shelf at an Amazon warehouse, sending 24 employees to the local hospital and leaving one in a critical condition.
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Our Current Supply Chain Concept is Failing: Why Change Has Got to Come in 2020
Emilia Ashton highlighted how the COVID-19 pandemic has shown that our lives will need to change in order to get to a new ‘normal’. She made suggestions on how supply chains could change, such as moving toward ‘Glocalization’ – which is the idea of thinking global but acting local – or to introduce a supply chain stress test. By using this approach, companies are provided with a way to financially quantify the cost of disruptions and prepare mitigation plans for the most critical parts of the supply chain. Emilia concluded that in order to prevent further widespread disruption to our supply chains, things must change.
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