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3PL – a risk orchestrator?

Historically, third-party logistics providers, or 3PLs, provided traditional logistics services, such as transportation and warehouse management, and nothing more than that, but 3PLs have evolved to becoming orchestrators of supply chains that create and sustain a competitive advantage.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Supply Chain Risk Management: A Neural Network Approach
I found a very interesting article by Frank Teuteberg in Strategies and Tactics in Supply Chain Even[...]
Categorization of Supply Chain Risk
In chapter 2 in Supply Chain Risk by Claire Brindley, there is a framework for assessing and positio[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book review: The Network Reliability of Transport
I guess you would have to have attended the conference yourself or be a researcher in this very fiel[...]
Book Review: This is where raster GIS started...
...well not really, but Geographic Information Systems and Cartographic Modeling by Dana Tomlin spar[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
The supply chain of the future
A recent report by IBM, referenced by Supply Chain Digest in IBM Lays Out its Vision for the Supply [...]
Supply Chain and Transport Risk
We are living in a new world of risk that is making this world unprecedentedly complex and challengi[...]
from HERE and THERE
How to use IDRISI GIS
Decision making is the process that leads to a choice between a set of alternatives. Geographical de[...]
Time is precious
Swiss Railway Watch
Time.  A highly valued asset in much of supply chain management and logistics operations. Time matte[...]