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Why Can’t The Supply Chain Get Rid of Abuse?

Material Handling & Logistics

In 2010, 18 workers threw themselves from the top of the Chinese company’s building, resulting in 14 deaths. And it’s not just China where these abuses are taking place. The answer is eight. In January of this year, another Apple supplier, Catcher Technology Co., And let’s not forget about the seafood industry. And the U.S.

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The Reshoring Initiative: 3 Reasons Why American Retailers Are Reshoring U.S. Manufacturing Jobs

GlobalTranz

added 77,000 jobs in 2016, with an additional 13,000 reported for the previous six years, for a total of 338,000 manufacturing jobs reshored since 2010. Apple has traditionally been relying on a supply chain based in East Asia, using Korea to produce memory chips, Japan to produce displays and China to assemble products.