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Building the Network of Networks

Supply Chain Shaman

Fires in a Bangladesh sewing factory resulted in 112 deaths. Port infrastructure and logistics capacity are growing issues. In 2007, it took six months for companies to sense the downturn in markets and align supply chains. On November 2012, the executives of Wal-Mart awoke to find that they were front page news.

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Ethics in Procurement – Simple, but Not Always Easy

Logistics Bureau

Between 2007 and 2010, during attempts to win firearms supply contracts with law enforcement and military agencies in Indonesia, Turkey, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Turkey, gun maker Smith & Wesson’s sales employees allegedly embarked upon a spate of unethical transactions, via third-party representatives, with foreign officials.