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Joe Boutte's insight:
Here are some insightful observations and actions on #supplychaindisruptions from @Serai. Thanks @Lindsey Hermes and @Sarah Barnes-Humphrey
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Transportation rate growth has gone parabolic as shipping demand continues to strain networks. What are the fundamental reasons for this and how long will these conditions persist?
Joe Boutte's insight:
Thanks for the chart of the week! Nice recap of the "wrecked" supply chains.
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What is supply chain professionals could see real-time data of shipment, delays, and alternative routes?
Joe Boutte's insight:
In this Thomas Industry Update the author covers a broad area of applications for GEOINT related to monitoring supply chains. The references to NGA, military intelligence, emerging Industry 4.0 technologies demonstrate the growing importance of GEOINT across all sectors. The reference to the Grand View Research, which states that by 2025, the geospatial analytics market size is predicted to reach over $134 billion. With these trends and the impacts of COVID-19 on future planning for recovery and building resiliency into supply chains, opportunities to leverage big data, computer vision, and the various technologies, including geospatial analytics, a new world order may emerge. At least, in relation to supply chain management.
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Roambee wants to help the World Food Programme monitor security, temperature, and humidity as well as driving conditions to deliver food and medicine safely.
Joe Boutte's insight:
Great integration of technologies to help people around the world and make the food supply chain for the World Food Program more efficient.
Excerpt: At the recent WFP Innovation Accelerator pitch night, Takoor explained how Roambee is offering a new spin on logistics-as-a-service. The company's monitoring platform uses IoT sensors, AI-enabled analytics, and robotic process automation to track shipments from the departure point to the final destination and send back status reports during the journey. Roambee's trackers provide real-time reporting on the location and status of shipments, including:
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The NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has published NIST Internal Report (NISTIR) 8419, Blockchain and Related Technologies to Support Manufacturing Supply Chain Traceability: Needs and Industry Perspectives.
Joe Boutte's insight:
As supply chains become more complex and the origins of products become harder to discern, efforts are emerging that improve traceability of goods by exchanging traceability data records
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In a fast-moving world, decision-makers in the public and private sectors need significant lead time, and this can be accomplished with predictive systems.
Joe Boutte's insight:
Donald Leka outlines some ways to employ new technologies and integrated data to predict supply chain disruption and mitigate some of the backups caused by COVID, natural disasters, and international relations. In terms of agility and resilience, companies and governments should begin to employ predictive systems to transform reactive processes to more predictive, proactive processes that are not vulnerable to the various threats to the global manufacturing supply chains. The technology is here, and the data is available today. The examples in this article related to Viet Nam's manufacturing capabilities, COVID vaccination rates, government restrictions, industry requests to POTUS Biden to accelerate vaccine donations, and other variables are all data sources for predictive systems. As many data and technology firms continue to integrate multiple data sources, apply predictive analytics, and create actionable insights for companies, governments, manufacturers, and supply chain experts, the opportunity to restore stability is ripe. Lastly, the implementation of predictive systems will strengthen manufacturing and their associated supply chains to become more agile and resilient to mitigate the threats and vulnerabilities posed by pandemics, worker shortages, container shortages, and political machinations.
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November 12, 2021 8:33 AM
Donald Leka outlines some ways to employ new technologies and integrated data to predict supply chain disruption and mitigate some of the backups caused by COVID, natural disasters, and international relations. In terms of agility and resilience, companies and governments should begin to employ predictive systems to transform reactive processes to more predictive, proactive processes that are not vulnerable to the various threats to the global manufacturing supply chains.
The examples in this article related to Viet Nam's manufacturing capabilities, COVID vaccination rates, government restrictions, industry requests to POTUS Biden to accelerate vaccine donations, and other variables are all data sources for predictive systems. As many data and technology firms continue to integrate multiple data sources, apply predictive analytics, and create actionable insights for companies, governments, manufacturers, and supply chain experts, the opportunity to restore stability is ripe. Lastly, the implementation of predictive systems will strengthen manufacturing and their associated supply chains to become more agile and resilient to mitigate the threats and vulnerabilities posed by pandemics, worker shortages, container shortages, and political machinations.
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A coronavirus outbreak in southern China has clogged ports critical to global trade, causing a shipping backlog that could take months to clear and lead to shortages during the year-end holiday shopping season.
Joe Boutte's insight:
What's going on in China with a COVID spike will affect the world for many months to come, including the holiday shopping season. Supply chain awareness becomes more important every day as companies and governments consider the ripple effects of bottlenecks and events in places like Guangdong, China. Remember the Ever Given in the Suez Canal? The Ever Given is no longer stuck across the canal but, almost three months later, the ship, crew and cargo are still stuck in Egypt as Suez Canal authorities seek a compensation claim for $916 million in damages and losses.
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The coronavirus pandemic has rattled organisations the world over, but some see this as an opportunity to drive real resilience in supply chains.
Joe Boutte's insight:
Data will drive resilience in supply chains and opportunities to accelerate adoption of digital transformation and Industry 4.0. As the current environment suggests, data is and will continue to be a vital element of supply chain management, illumination, and risk management. The lean supply chains created over the past few years are demonstrating frailties in this time pandemic, but the lessons learned will empower enhanced, stronger supply chains as shifts occur. The rattling of supply chains may be the spark of innovation required for new approaches to strengthen resiliency in a post-pandemic world, a new and improved "normal".
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Being an early adopter for a complex, modern army to apply additive manufacturing to field operations, mitigate supply chain challenges, and maintain readiness won't happen overnight. The leadership vision and resources to move from concept to viable replacement parts for deployed soldiers will happen. Appreciate all the work going on across the Army, especially TACOM, to implement additive technologies. Consider how far they've come already through the "crawl" phase of implementing additive technology to produce simple components in the field according to Brian Butler, Deputy to the Commander, TACOM:
TACOM started by evaluating 146,000 parts and components. They distilled that down to 1,000 that could potentially be produced through additive manufacturing.
Out of that thousand, we've got just a little over 200 that we've been able to actually qualify, with a hundred of those only being available for battle damage assessment and repair.
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