While most supply chain disruptions have dissipated, continued challenges led to the White House giving supply chains another bump in the news cycle with its inaugural meeting of the Council on Supply Chain Resilience.

The transportation and logistics industry is still lagging far behind other sectors in taking basic steps toward automation of manual processes.

Every major commercial shipping line is rerouting vessels away from the Suez Canal in response to the recent series of missile attacks by Houthi militants in the Red Sea.

More than 100 supply chain, logistics, manufacturing, and procurement professionals gathered in Houston to discuss the challenges and opportunities in today’s post-pandemic landscape.

Most corporate survival strategies are crafted to help businesses withstand any number of unanticipated supply chain disruptions. But how many are poised to profit from times of adversity?

Maersk said December 14 that its vessel, Maersk Gibraltar, was targeted by a missile when traveling from Salalah, Oman to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Both December 15 attacks, one missile-based and the other drone-based, came from a part of Yemen controlled by the Houthi rebel movement.

Organizations that embrace and invest in vulnerability prioritization and remediation, and utilize an asset-centric approach, will be better positioned to navigate the ever-changing threat landscape.

Business leaders must take proactive steps to secure one of the more vulnerable arms of their operations against cyberattack: the supply chain.

The mean number of supply chain breaches increased from 3.29 incidents in 2022 to 4.16 incidents in 2023, a 26% rise.