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Sustainability Certifications for SMEs: The Best Programmes

Unleashed

Among the many schemes listed in the index, you’ll find some of the following leading eco-labels: A relative newcomer, the B-Corp certification scheme was started by Richard Branson in 2007 and now boasts over 3,500 certified members, most of them, SMEs, in more than 70 countries. Sustainability certifications in North America.

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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 This is already happening outside of North America and Europe. In the U.S. trillion in 2017. So what does this mean?

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How Can We Heal the Global Supply Chain?

Supply Chain Shaman

In the last six months, in my travels, I have presented to supply chain teams in China, Belgium, France, Germany, Peru, Mexico, Netherlands, South Africa, Singapore, and the United Kingdom. If you trace the year-over-year pattern, you can see that P&G made progress on inventory turns and operating margin 2006-2007, 2009-2010.