All supply chain articles – Page 15
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Analysis
Hurricane Zeta bears down on Louisiana
Currently, Zeta’s track is a direct landfall for New Orleans, with the storm taking a similar path to Hurricane Katrina in 2005
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Analysis
Accenture and MIT create supply chain resilience stress test
The new standard will assess a global supply chain’s ability to mitigate the impact of disruptive events
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Analysis
Reducing temperature-controlled cargo losses
Why temperature-controlled incidents are such a common cause of marine cargo claims and how to avoid them
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Opinion
Improving supply chain strength and agility
As many countries enter the second wave of the pandemic, global supply chains continue to be disrupted. Here’s how to build in greater resilience
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Analysis
Swiss Re Corporate Solutions and Hitachi launch ‘smart manufacturing’ solution
Insurance-based solutions will initially focus on manufacturing and transport firms that are adopting AI and other cutting-edge technologies
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Analysis
How COVID-19 is reshaping the risk landscape
The pandemic will shape future loss trends with changes to working environments, travelling habits and supply chain networks, predicts AGCS
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Analysis
Eurozone to benefit from reshoring - sigma
Global supply chains are undergoing fundamental and accelerated restructuring, with re-shoring a growing trend in Europe
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Analysis
Modern slavery risks surge in Asia manufacturing hubs
The risk is set to intensify further as the economic fallout from COVID-19 takes full hold, warns Verisk Maplecroft
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Analysis
Hurricane Laura makes Louisiana landfall
Laura made landfall as a category 4 hurricane with wind speeds of up to 150mph and an “unsurvivable” storm surge
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Analysis
Risk managers must heed COVID supply chain lessons
Among the key lessons from the crisis, RQA Group says there will be a move towards shorter, more localised supply chains and less reliance on the Far East
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Analysis
Long-term governance failures caused Beirut blast
Governmental shortcomings were to blame for the explosion in Lebanon, according to risk experts, who say lessons can be learned from the incident
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Analysis
Beirut port disaster loss to impact global insurers
Observers are drawing comparisons with the 2015 explosion in the Chinese port of Tianjin, which highlighted accumulation exposures in ports - AM Best
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Analysis
Study recommends new approach to supply chain risk
Researchers from UB School of Management say their framework would have benefitted organisations as the coronavirus pandemic hit
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Analysis
Due diligence the key for third-party risks
Research from Refinitiv reveals 43% of third-party relationships are not subject to any form of due diligence checks
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Analysis
COVID-19: Three quarters have experienced supply chain disruption
Two-thirds of organisations plan to source goods more locally post-pandemic, reducing reliance on the Far East - BCI report
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Analysis
Shipping losses at record low
Consequences of coronavirus and a sustained economic downturn could however threaten long-term safety improvement
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Analysis
Cost of third-party incident up to $1 billion - Deloitte
Losses associated with supply chain failure, data privacy breach or disruption to IT services have at least doubled in the last five years
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Case Studies
Mitigating the risks of re-tooling
How HARTMANN Group’s risk profile changed when it increased sanitiser production at the start of the COVID outbreak.
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Analysis
Slower lockdown easing better for supply chains - study
A gradual easing of restrictions would be “less disruptive” for the global supply chain, finds peer-reviewed study by UCL and Tsinghua University
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Analysis
Idle vessels face new risks, Allianz warns
Increasing disruption and economic pressures caused by the pandemic has serious risk management implications for the maritime community