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New Bookends: The Tale of Supply Chain Global Leaders in Consumer Products

Supply Chain Shaman

The report analyzes supply chain performance and improvement by the Consumer Products Leaders in the period of 2006-2014. In the selection of time frames to analyze, we look at the long-term view including the recessionary period of 2006-2009, the post recessionary period of 2009-2014 and the more recent time period of 2011-2014.

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Illegal Supply Chains: selling stolen and counterfeit drugs

The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

billion between 2006 and 2012 to fight Malaria in Africa that kills 600,000 annually.    In many instances, counterfeited drugs can be deadly and stolen drugs were not effective because they were not stored and transported with proper temperature control. [1].   For example, US government allocated US$ 2.5

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Why Energy Supply Chains are Transitioning to Renewables

Requis

In the period 2000–2012, upstream capital expenditure by oil majors rose 450% , with extraction from shale costs primarily to blame. In spite of the increased spend, production has not risen but declined 6% between 2006 and 2012. The rise of microgrids.

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Two Million Vacant Manufacturing Jobs by 2025…How Can We Tackle the Skills Gap?

GlobalTranz

Industry data for 2004 - 2013 shows an annual loss of at least $17 billion due to vacant positions, with shocking losses of around $45 billion in both 2012 and 2013. Training Magazine 's annual survey indicates that from 2006-2013, average investment in training per manufacturing employee was reduced by 31 percent.

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Sustainable Procurement: Want change? The first step is to create urgency

EcoVadis

Some other lesser known “realities”, but just as relevant include: 2010 Royal Dutch Shell was convicted of bribery for bribes paid by transportation supplier, Panalpina, and Shell was required to pay $48.1 million under the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

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Who said supply chains are boring?: An Online Class Everyone.

Supply Chains Rock

Friday, September 28, 2012. As the Supply Chains Rock blog points out in an October 2006 post, conducting business in emerging global markets requires a knowledge of supply chains and the ways in which they function in other regions. Still not excited, well visit often and eventually you will be. Subscribe To.

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Supply Chain Management:Has Best of Breed WMS Won the Race?

Infosys Supply Chain Management

In 2006 the analyst community predicted that gap between the Best of Breed (BOB) WMS and ERP WMS has narrowed significantly and it was just matter of time before the ERP vendors caught up with the BOB vendors (1). Posted by Pragash Muthukumar on January 5, 2012 9:26 AM | Permalink. December 2012. November 2012.