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The Industrial Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis

Logistics Bureau

When leading economists start talking about a drop in manufacturing comparable to the start of the 2007-2008 global financial crisis, you can be sure that the world’s leading industries are in for a torrid few months. With components taking six to eight weeks to reach Europe from China, the crisis still has some way to run. .

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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.

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Supply Chains Can’t Handle the Heat

Elementum

The current 77 centimeter (30 inches) water level at the bottleneck, called Kaub, is the lowest seasonally since at least 2007. For just one foreboding example: the Rhine River in Germany, a major supply artery for Europe, may soon become impassible.

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Major Trends Impacting the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Ecosystem

Supply Chain View from the Field

Looking at global figures, growth in the consumption of drugs has increased 32 percent from $735 billion in 2007 to $965 billion in 2012, and consumption is projected to reach about $1.2 In the U.S. alone, the volume of prescriptions has almost doubled in less than 15 years. trillion in 2017.

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List of Top 65 Marketplaces Across the Globe in 2019

Vinculum

Along with France, Pixmania has a presence in 13 countries including the UK, Spain, Italy, Germany and Poland. Launched in 2007, Flipkart is India’s leading ecommerce marketplace with over 80 million products across 80+ categories and sub-categories.

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Will Trump’s Trade War Kill Off Economic Growth?

Supply Chain Brain

The Eurozone , only recently in danger of becoming a basket case, is experiencing its strongest growth since 2007. In Italy, populist parties on both left and right could have a destabilizing effect on that country’s already shaky economy. Global GDP chalked up growth of 3.2 percent in 2017 and is on track to approach 3.5