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Supply Changes: Sustainability and Responsibility in the Modern Supply Chain

Elementum

The Natural Gas Paradox, or Why Supply Chain Traceability is Important. Or, perhaps you work for a company that employs natural gas to help “green” its supply chain. With environmental issues at the forefront of many conversations, supply chain managers cannot afford to forgo important changes.

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Unethical Sourcing Practices in Procurement and How to Avoid Them

EC Sourcing Group

A perceived lack of ethics may affect your reputation and the entire procurement process and supply chain. . For example, employees at Smith & Wesson entered into a series of unethical practices with foreign countries between 2007 and 2010. Falling for unethical business practices can affect sourcing and procurement.

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Top 6 Wholesale Distribution Trends for 2019

EMERGE App

The rise of China in the past decade coincided with a global economic boom after the financial crisis of 2007-2008. It raised its prowess from running mere factories to one that offered a complete value chain: from research and development to shipping and fulfillment. Supply Chain Dependencies. And in another language.

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Ethics in Procurement – Simple, but Not Always Easy

Logistics Bureau

Procurement is what sets entire supply chains and their organisations in motion. Given that in Indonesia, for example, business bribery is commonplace (despite the efforts of a governmental anti-corruption agency), one must wonder if Smith & Wesson’s salespeople were the corrupters or the corrupted. Conclusion.