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Risk Management
Hard-to-Insure Risks Pressure Cash Flow
For distribution, import, and export companies, financial strain often begins in the gap between shipment and payment. A disruption may start with delayed goods, unpaid invoices, or added freight costs, then become a liquidity problem when cash leaves the business before revenue, reimbursement, or insurance recovery arrives.
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Freight Damage: The Claim Is Only a Fraction of the Cost
Most companies measure the claim. The smartest companies measure business impact.**
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10 Tips for Preventing Supply Chain Fraud
In 2025, retailers incurred $706 billion in returns, with about $100 billion of that value lost to preventable fraud and abuse, according to an Appriss Retail analysis. The following strategies can reduce fraud and protect profits along the supply chain.
Read More10 Tips for Managing Supply Chain Risk
These strategies help CPG brands minimize disruption, protect in-stocks and maintain compliance with increasingly complex retail requirements so they can navigate uncertainty with confidence.
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You Diversified Your Suppliers, But What About Your Robots?
We often think about supply chain risk as something that happens upstream: an extreme weather event delaying a shipment from a single-source supplier or a carrier battling a data breach. That’s no longer the whole picture here. There are risks just as serious much closer to home.
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10 Tips for Combating Supply Chain Threats
Cross-border logistics is entering a phase where digital infrastructure and security are becoming critical. The result: cybersecurity is no longer an IT function—it’s an existential risk to business continuity and trust.
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Building a Future-Proof Supply Chain
For business leaders and supply chain professionals, tariffs—and their impact on the cost, availability, and sourcing of critical parts and raw materials—are top of mind. In addition to tariffs, companies have faced persistent risks and disruptions since the pandemic five years ago. The “new normal” is a business environment defined by variability and complexity, affecting nearly every industry.
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Transportation Risk Management: What It Is, Types, and How to Choose
Learn how transportation risk management helps supply chains minimize disruption and improve resilience. Explore risk types, mitigation strategies, and how to choose the right solution for your business.
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Adapting Your Supply Chain to Mitigate Risk and Volatility
Q. How are companies adapting their supply chains to current conditions? A. In today’s market, companies are reshaping their supply chains to boost resilience and efficiency amid disruptions like geopolitical tensions, inflation, and shifting demand. A key focus is diversification, with firms reducing reliance on single regions by expanding supplier networks across multiple countries. Many […]
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5 Types of Risk in Supply Chain Management
This guide breaks down five types of risk in supply chain management, showing how environmental risks, financial threats, and market shifts can hit operations hard.
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Operational Risk Management: Core Principles and Practices
Modern business operations face rising complexity from cyber threats, supply chain issues, and failed internal processes. Each mistake or delay increases risk exposure and disrupts performance. Without a structured system, risks multiply fast and often without warning.
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Logistics Risk Management: What It Is, Types, and Implementation
Unexpected events can derail even the most efficient logistics network, making risk management in logistics essential. From natural disasters to supplier delays, risks pop up without warning. That’s why logistics risk management is no longer optional—it’s essential. Companies today face supply chain disruptions that can impact everything from raw materials to customer satisfaction. Identifying potential […]
Read MoreSecuring the Core Through Third-Party Risk Management
In today’s intricate global business landscape, robust third-party risk management (TPRM) and supply chain oversight frameworks are indispensable for maintaining operational integrity, adequate security, and regulatory compliance.
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How Does Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Drive Supply Chain Efficiency?
6 ways that Integrated Business Planning (IBP) improves supply chain efficiency.
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Team Up to Deter Supplier Fraud
Despite their best technology and efforts, finance leaders continue to battle the ever-evolving tactics of fraudsters. A key reason is that finance’s fraud management strategies are seldom considered in the context of supplier information. Their peers in procurement, meanwhile, manage supplier information daily but the processes they use aren’t designed to prevent fraud.
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To Catch a Thief: 5 Ways to Boost Cargo Security
With cargo thefts surging, bolstered by sophisticated new tech-based methods, it has never been more important for shippers and their partners to emphasize security best practices.
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Gaining Visibility to Supply Chain Blind Spots
Keeping supply chain risks in your line of sight can protect your profits, people, and productivity.
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Automakers Shift to Smart Supply Chains
Although the pandemic may be over, auto suppliers and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are still grappling with supply chain issues such as concern over net-zero promises, the growing EV market, geopolitical conflicts, evolving trade agreements, natural disasters, and high interest rates deterring shoppers.
Read MoreWhat You Don’t Know About Your Suppliers Can Hurt You
Most companies run credit checks to make sure their suppliers are stable. But how can executives keep up with the news and other crucial reports to see if those suppliers will keep their commitments?
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Auto Industry Shifts Logistics Strategies
While companies across industries and sizes are making changes to mitigate supply chain risk, the automotive industry seems to be leading the way on some of the top trends.
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