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Blockchain: Preventing E. Coli Through Enhanced Traceability

Kinaxis

Health officials narrowed the source down to romaine lettuce, but identifying which romaine lettuce from where is still a problem. Bioterrorism Act of 2002 (mandating that businesses keep records of the prior handler and the next handler) and the Food Safety and Modernization Act, food is still very hard to trace.

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6 Manufacturing Trends You Need to Know

Arena Solutions

alone, colleges and universities awarded 83,263 bachelor’s degrees in engineering in 2012, a 37% increase over the 60,605 degrees conferred in 2002. Manufacturers are leveraging big data to provide them with a comprehensive picture of their business thanks to the ability to acquire information from an ever-increasing variety of sources.

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Inflation is Back Up – Are you Ready?

Herlitz Inventory Management

source: tradingeconomics.com. source: thebalance.com. The law of supply and demand, coupled with other environmental and political factors, have led to two months of inflation that are higher than we have seen in 30 years (see table below). ?. Have we lost the knowledge of how to be profitable during periods of high inflation?

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Supply Chain Disruption. A Deeper Look Into Context, Causes, and Trends  

Elementum

Specialization and quality began to drive important sourcing decisions rather than the sole lever of saving partners a few dollars on materials and manufacturing alone. From 2002 to 2013, the cost of manufacturing in China increased almost 500%, making China significantly more expensive than places like India.

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This Week In Supply Chain Management Tech April 4 2023

Supply Chain Matters

Founded in 2002 with over 100 consultants and based in Boulder, Colorado , Spinnaker SCA designs and builds agile supply chains for leading brands across Consumer Staples, High Tech, Industrial Manufacturing, Retail & Apparel, Medical Devices, and Distribution Industries.

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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

6 River Systems

This compilation is based on the most currently available company revenue data (between 2018 and 2020) without factoring in any other metric. Revenue data is sourced from the companies’ websites and market research platforms such as Macrotrends. billion (fiscal year 2018) Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan CEO: Mitsuru Saito 6.

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Circular Economy in ICT – Completing the circle of supply

EcoVadis

million metric tonnes (Mt) and predicted an increase to 50 million Mt of e-waste in 2018 ( United Nations University 2014 ). The first and classical approach for addressing product and equipment obsolescence is formalizing objectives for take-back and secondary sourcing of material , as done by Orange.