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Nestle Incorporates Warehouse Logistics to Improve Coffee Supply Chain

RFgen

Recognizing a need to improve the efficiency of its global supply chain, Nestle recently announced that it is building a new storage and shipment facility in Vietnam. Bloomberg reported that Vietnam is one of the top coffee growing countries in the world , and more robusta coffee beans come from there than from anywhere else.

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Nestle Incorporates Warehouse Logistics to Improve Coffee Supply Chain

RFgen

Recognizing a need to improve the efficiency of its global supply chain, Nestle recently announced that it is building a new storage and shipment facility in Vietnam. Bloomberg reported that Vietnam is one of the top coffee growing countries in the world , and more robusta coffee beans come from there than from anywhere else.

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Modern Slavery in Today’s Supply Chains

Kinaxis

It’s based on California’s Transparency in Supply Chains Act, which was passed in 2010. The new provision, which is part of the broader Modern Slavery Act enacted in March, will impact more than 12,000 UK companies whose global revenues each total more than 36 million pounds. So how is this going to solve the supply chain slavery issue?

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Collaboration: The New Battle Cry of Supply Chain

Supply Chain Network

China surpassed Japan in 2010 as the world’s second largest economy, and the IMF predict it could exceed the U.S. Secondary markets like Vietnam and Turkey are also getting more attention. Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Vietnam experienced similar wage-related strikes and walkouts.

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Unethical Sourcing Practices in Procurement and How to Avoid Them

EC Sourcing Group

For example, employees at Smith & Wesson entered into a series of unethical practices with foreign countries between 2007 and 2010. Also, in 2016, Nike’s ties with Georgetown University were affected when reports of extremely poor working conditions were reported from a Nike factory in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam.

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Logistics Execs Split on Outcome of NAFTA Talks

Material Handling & Logistics

GDP gain in 2010. India and China are the logistics industry’s favorite investment destinations, but Vietnam leads a second group that includes UAE, Brazil and Indonesia. Twenty-six percent said large companies would be the biggest beneficiaries.

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What is the True Cost of Sustainable Apparel from Bangladesh? Insights from Harvard “Sustainable Models for the Apparel Industry” Conference

NC State SCRC

In 2010 to 2016 the Bangladesh Joint Directorate of Labor (JDL) approved 362 labor unions against 783 registration applications. Tim Ryan, Asia Regional Program Director from the Solidarity Center added and reinforced the necessity of labor unions in preserving labor rights.