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OPEC May Need to Cut Again as Fragile Members Recover, Citi Says

Supply Chain Brain

Iran, Iraq, Libya, Nigeria and Venezuela will add roughly 900,000 barrels a day of production this year and at least the same in 2024, the bank estimates.

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Lessons From the Front Line: 3 Hospitality Supply Chain Horror Stories

AFFLINK

Xinia Camacho, reports Fusion , is a humble owner of a 20-room boutique in Venezuela. In recent years, the socialist country of Venezuela has been faced with a vanishing supply of consumer products, like toilet paper. When Politics Takes Away Your Toilet Paper.

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Is the “shared economy” changing logistics?

Kinaxis

by Alvaro Fernandez Did you know it costs approximately $100 to send an envelope from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, to Caracas, Venezuela? That’s for three to five day service! New York to London? That will cost you $50 to $100, but it’ll get there overnight.

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How Many Slaves Are in Your Supply Chain?

Talking Logistics

The company is also stopping production in Ecuador, Venezuela, Belarus and Pakistan by April 2014 (these countries scored low in a World Bank report that assessed countries on accountability, corruption, violence, and other metrics).

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Revenues Sagging? Here's How to Thrive in 2016

Demand Solutions

Think Venezuela, Ecuador, and Colombia. For starters, plummeting oil prices may be a good thing for you and me at the pump, but they’re terrible for the many nations in which the economy pretty much revolves around oil exports. Meanwhile, the strengthening of the U.S. dollars with the intention of trading with the U.S.

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Revenues Sagging? Here's How to Thrive in 2016

Demand Solutions

Think Venezuela, Ecuador, and Colombia. For starters, plummeting oil prices may be a good thing for you and me at the pump, but they’re terrible for the many nations in which the economy pretty much revolves around oil exports. Meanwhile, the strengthening of the U.S. dollars with the intention of trading with the U.S.

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Cyber Attacks Are Major Risk in New Global Resilience Ranking

Material Handling & Logistics

Haiti is the bottom-ranked country followed by Venezuela and Nepal—also the same order as last year. Looking at the rankings Switzerland again holds the top spot in overall resilience in the index, followed by Luxembourg and Sweden—all the same as last year.

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