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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
Call for papers: Humanitarian Logistics
With resilience as one the main themes for this blog, from time to time I have written posts on disa[...]
Broader research = better research?
I have always seen myself as a cross-disciplinary thinker, and I guess that is why I am so often sid[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Customs Risk
International trade and global supply chains are filled with goods that are criss-crossing the globe[...]
One bad apple...
...spoils the barrel? Yesterday I sat down to prepare a review of this book, Managing Risks in Suppl[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Transport infrastructure resilience
Is it possible to devise a simple framework for assessing the resilience of the transport infrastruc[...]
America’s Crumbling Infrastructure
My daily morning routine includes a cup of coffee while watching the World Business Report on BBC Wo[...]
from HERE and THERE
The Grapevine - An evolving social media experiment
Thanks to my LinkedIn connection with Jeff Ashcroft of  the SupplyChainNetwork I was made aware of a[...]
Conferences in Transportation and Supply Chain
Looking for a list of conferences in supply chain and transportation-related topics? By accident, I [...]