The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 20, 2020

The acquisition was key to opening doors to expansion in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Using a data-driven approach, predictive analytics are generated that can encourage agents or retailers to increase their sales performance through gamification, creating a mutually beneficial arrangement.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

I will be speaking and working with clients in wonderful locations in Brussels, China, Germany, London, Mexico, Peru, and South Africa. As I drank a cup of coffee and waited, I reflected on the article I had just completed for the Institute of Supply Management. One of my clients waits four days for a custom report.

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Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Software Supply and Demand Supply Chain Design 150

Operations and Supply Chain Management

JUNE 3, 2014

First Reports Filed to SEC on Potential Use of Minerals From a Region of War-Torn Africa. The admissions were among reports by nearly 1,300 U.S.-listed listed companies that have filed their first audits on whether their products contained any tin, gold, tungsten or tantalum from Africa’s war-torn Congo region.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 28, 2023

While it was a bit tough to jump right back into the swing of work, I saw an interesting article about workplace conditions when I got back. Unseasonably cold weather in Spain slowed down the growing of peppers, leading to Morrisons limiting purchases to two per customer. households each year, a new report has found.

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Material Savings Purchasing Skills Logistics Network Optimization Software Logistics 202

Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Kahn reports historian and collector Nancy Rosin donated over 12,000 historical Valentine’s cards dating from the 17th century onward to the library. ” Her article features several fun examples of the donated cards. Much of the cocoa used to make Valentine chocolates comes from growers in West Africa. “Mrs.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 27, 2020

Its objective is to give confidence to the 70% of consumers concerned about the ethical background behind their jewellery purchases. Unilever owns tea plantations in Africa and is using blockchain to improve sustainability and combat counterfeiting. It’s Teatime for Blockchain. Farmers Can Bank on Blockchain Benefits.

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Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Software Logistics Network Optimization Software Procurement Solutions 69

Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 27, 2020

Post-pandemic article and permission to publish here provided by Joe Carson, CEO of Spend Strategies, LLC. We recall the Conflict Mineral legislation that discouraged the use of child labor in nine countries in Africa. In the world of supply chain operations, complexity equals costs. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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Provenance

MARCH 6, 2021

The NewClimate Institute recently reported a threefold increase in the number of businesses setting net zero goals, from 500 at the end of 2019 to 1,565 in October 2020. It’s mandatory for businesses to report on both Scope 1 (direct emissions) and Scope 2 (indirect emissions from the energy they buy). Would be a lot quicker.”.

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Cost Reduction Strategies Material Savings Supply Chain Strategy Strategy 52

MIT Supply Chain

APRIL 24, 2014

The graduates from the Spanish program tend to stay in Spain, while students from the English program are widely dispersed with about 60% gaining employment in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, 25% in North America and Central America, and the rest in Asia. This post is based on an article in the Winter 2014 issue of Supply Chain Frontiers.

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Europe Spain Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Planning Software 71

EcoVadis

MAY 9, 2018

Direct purchasing by governments and state-owned enterprises accounts for 12 percent of GDP in OECD countries, and in the U.K. Sustainable public procurement can also be beneficial from the economic perspective: It can generate income, reduce costs and promote innovation among domestic producers. National Procurement Standards.

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Manufacturing Procurement Procurement Analytics Procurement Solutions Optimal Sourcing 60

Enterra Insights

AUGUST 27, 2021

Williams told Freedman, “Biologists who point out health or other risks associated with GM crops — who merely report or defend experimental findings that imply there may be risks — find themselves the focus of vicious attacks on their credibility, which leads scientists who see problems with GM foods to keep quiet.” 4) Fresher.

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NC State SCRC

AUGUST 24, 2019

A recent WSJ article highlighted a fact that confirms much of what we found in our study of counterfeit products in the supply chain a year ago: if you’re buying on Amazon, beware of counterfeits. Brands will often respond that “you purchased this product through an unauthorized distributor, and it is not our product.”

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Pricing Training Expense Reduction Purchasing Training Pharmaceutical 65

Supply Chain Trend

DECEMBER 13, 2016

These leaders all have 20+ years S&OP experience and published books, whitepapers and articles in renowned magazines. Over the first few months, I quickly learned that it was much more than supplying reports and data. I have purchased the E-Book myself and truly enjoyed it. .

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S&OP Supply and Demand Supply Chain Planning Software Analytics Software 60

NC State SCRC

JULY 28, 2019

Organizations continue to scour global markets for even lower labor rates, moving from Western China to the Pearl River, and now to Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Cambodia, and North Africa. A key element of evaluation involves understanding and assessing the environmental risk associated with the particular chemical being purchased.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 30, 2017

When measuring the effectiveness and cost of your supply chain you will need to set up and monitor KPIs which give visibility of cross functional activity as well as those which apply to individual supply chain components. Later in this article we’ll look at some examples of functional and cross functional KPIs. Inventory management.

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Resilinc

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Peter Guinto capped his 12-year Air Force career in procurement by serving on the federal COVID supply chain task force and becoming head of contracting for the Medium-altitude UAS Division—the unit responsible for keeping the United States’ edge in warfighting drones. As originally reported by Defense News , $14 billion worth of U.S.

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