Managing Risk in the Global Supply Chain

Over the last decade, many companies faced extreme supply chain challenges that stretched their capabilities to the breaking point. Both the preponderance of natural disasters and huge economic swings caused extreme challenges across the supply chain. These challenges have not diminished. Supply chains, which once functioned almost on autopilot, face many dangers today in both the global and the domestic market.

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whitePaper | September 30, 2022

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whitePaper | April 15, 2022

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