Supply Chain Insights
Articles on supply chain strategy, risk, inventory, logistics and careers — and on the decisions you practise in the Supply Chain Disaster simulation. Articles that cite research list their sources at the end.
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Operations
Build a JIT Vulnerability Framework: Predictive Risk Tutorial
Build a predictive analytics framework that calculates supplier risk scores and flags JIT vulnerabilities before disruptions hit. This hands-on tutorial wa...
Analytics
Build a Stochastic Optimization Framework for Supply Chains
Learn to build a working stochastic optimization framework that integrates Bayesian learning with robust optimization. This tutorial guides you through pro...
Analytics
Build a Predictive Risk System Using Complex Adaptive Systems
Learn to build a predictive analytics framework that treats your supply chain as a complex adaptive system. You'll implement automated disruption detection...
Analytics
Build a Predictive Analytics Framework for JIT Risk Management
Traditional reactive approaches fail JIT operations because disruptions cascade faster than manual response times allow. [The global JIT logistics market r...
Analytics
How to Build Supply Chain Resilience with Predictive Analytics
80% of organizations faced supply chain disruptions in 2024. See how predictive analytics and resilience investment turn early warning into a real competitive edge.
Analytics
Why Bayesian Inference Beats Traditional Risk Models
Most supply chain risk dashboards light up after the disruption hits. The hurricane makes landfall, the port congests, the supplier goes dark, and then the...
Analytics
Bayesian Inference vs Traditional Methods in Supply Chains
**Bayesian inference in supply chains** represents a fundamental shift from reactive to proactive risk management. Traditional cost reduction methods rely ...
Analytics
5 Bayesian Inference Findings Reshaping Supply Chain Risk
Supply chain managers face a fundamental problem: traditional risk models assume disruptions follow predictable patterns. They do not. Hurricanes, supplier...
Risk
Why Your Supply Chain Risk Model Is Already Obsolete
Traditional risk management assumes disruptions are exceptions. In permanently unstable markets, that assumption is fatal. Learn why supply chain agility r...
Risk
Why Reactive Risk Management No Longer Works
Learn why 92% of businesses lack true visibility into supply chain threats. This POV explores how geopolitical risks now move faster than reactive strategi...
Risk
What the Great KitKat Heist of 2026 Tells Us About the State of Cargo Security
The KitKat theft is striking because it's a famous brand and the optics are amusing. But the data behind it is considerably less funny.
Analytics
Excel Isn't Outdated. It's the Skill Most Supply Chain Planners Never Master.
10 Excel use cases for supply chain pros — demand forecasting, safety stock, ABC-XYZ, supplier scorecards, landed cost and BOM — with the formulas that work.