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Bitcoin and the Brutal Truth!

Supply Chain Game Changer

You can consider the example that you can buy beer with $10 worth of bitcoins one day, but the other day, you can buy wine with the same bitcoin. The basis of relying on cryptocurrency investors is a more excellent fool theory which states that you can profit from investing by finding someone else to purchase it at a higher price.

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Trends 2024: Risk Management

Enterra Insights

Industry journalist Camille Rustici provides an excellent overview of many of those risks.[2] Some countries, like Argentina, continue to suffer from hyperinflation, while other countries are seeing inflation rates decrease. manufacturing exports but will reduce purchasing power for imported materials, components, and equipment.”[6]

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China, Tariffs, and Trade Policy. What’s Going On?

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Per CSMS# 18-00372 , as of June 1, 2018, all countries will be subject to the 232 tariffs except Argentina, Australia, Brazil, and South Korea for steel; for aluminum, all countries will be subject except Argentina and Australia. Indirect impacts include goods you buy domestically or have imported by another U.S.

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Klabin Partners with EcoVadis to Advance Supply Chain Sustainability Leadership and Performance in Latin America

EcoVadis

Together, the two companies will drive sustainability excellence across the global pulp and paper supply chain through proactive monitoring and assessment of supplier performance and risk. Founded in 1899, it has 18 industrial units in Brazil and one in Argentina.

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Beyond The Data with William Sandoval

The Logistics of Logistics

I have been fortunate to lead teams from Latin America, Mexico to Argentina. I got to be able to run my operations, even the way I buy products and things of that nature. New Jersey is where our corporate headquarters is based but we have offices in Brazil, Mexico, Argentina and South Africa. We are a global company.

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36 innovative companies re-inventing and rethinking supply chain and logistics

6 River Systems

In 2017, DB Schenker opened a new regional headquarters in Miami-Dade as well as several new support offices throughout the Americas, with continuous investment in contract logistics focusing on Mexico, Argentina and Brazil, as well as new Free Trade Zones and cross border facilities.