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Do Consumers Care About Ethical Sourcing?

Logistics Viewpoints

A big part of sustainability initiatives includes the use of ethical sourcing. Ethical sourcing is the process of ensuring that the products made are obtained through responsible and sustainable methods. While we have seen more companies promoting ethical sourcing, does the consumer really care? Ethical Sourcing.

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How Procter & Gamble is thriving on supply chain complexity

ToolsGroup

Source: Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference. GDM now serves more than 100 distributors on five continents and in 180 countries from Argentina to Zimbabwe. It also exchanges data with various distributor ERP systems, P&G’s SAP ERP system, spreadsheets and other sources.

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Supply Chain Roundtable Series: Getting Demand Forecasting Right 

Unleashed

Mark Houghton – CEO at Radical Cloud Solutions , our cloud solution specialist in Zimbabwe. The consolation with that was all our main competitors sourced products from the same region, so we were all in the same boat.” The main contributing factor to that was the cost of freight.  They may have bought [a product] for $100.

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What You Can’t See Can Hurt You – Is Your Supply Chain Really Transparent?

Logility

In 2020, the poorest working conditions were identified in Bangladesh, Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, Honduras, India, Kazakhstan, the Philippines, Turkey, and Zimbabwe. Violations of workers’ rights are at an all-time high. Yet you may need to buy from these countries.

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EV segment will likely depend on China for many years

Resilinc

Ford is no doubt thinking of its agreement, announced in July, to source batteries for the F-150 Lightning Truck and Mustang Mach-E from Contemporary Amperex Technology Limited (CATL), China’s largest EV battery maker. FT.com also reports that Stellantis, Volkswagen, and other automakers have joined Ford in “asking [U.S.] for the U.S.,

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Commodities Used in Electric Car Batteries: An Update on Lithium and Nickel

Resilinc

China has also invested in lithium production in other nations like Zimbabwe and Bolivia , underscoring the strategic significance of lithium in achieving low to zero-emission technology objectives. Challenges and Opportunities Recent developments in the lithium industry have presented a mix of challenges and opportunities.

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Supply Chain Planning in Emerging Markets: Four Points to Remember

ToolsGroup

And while each market can be unique, we found a few repeating themes in our own experience and from sources including Gartner and our customers Procter and Gamble (P&G) and Cipla Medpro. GDM now serves more than 100 distributors on five continents and in 180 countries from Argentina to Zimbabwe. Here’s what we found: 1.