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High Seas Troubles Affect Global Supply Chains, Part One: Security Risks

Enterra Insights

Near the Horn of Africa or the Strait of Malacca, pirates who had once seemed quelled have roared back, crimping sea traffic. patrol the Horn of Africa. Leach, “Piracy Costs Shipping Industry Billions,” Journal of Commerce, 19 April 2011. [2] After the Cold War, Russia teamed up with the U.S. Footnotes [1] Peter T.

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Mastering Financial Strategies to Drive Supply Chain Value – CSCMP Europe 2011

Supply Chain Network

Williams, Vice President, Product Supply, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa (CEEMEA), Procter & Gamble. How to Win in Emerging Markets through Effective Supply Chain Management.

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Supply Chain Management in a VUCA World

Enterra Insights

Back in 2011, supply chain analyst Trevor Miles ( @milesahead ) noted there is a similar sounding word supply chain managers should associate with VUCA. He explains, “I almost feel that we should be shouting ‘Vuka’ which in Xhosa (one of the South Africa languages) means ‘wake up.’ Wake up to the new reality that VUCA is a new norm.”[1]

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Q&A with Sidney Johnson: Veteran Supply Chain Practitioner and Resilinc Advisory Board Member

Resilinc

We were also in Europe, North Africa, and Asia. We started working with Resilinc around 2011 or 2012. Congress said they wanted everyone to understand the materials they were using coming out of that region of Africa. That’s where shortening that supply chain and lead time is extremely important. A couple of things happened.

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Hollywood’s Top 10 Supply Chain Disaster Movies

Resilinc

Contagion (2011) Despite being released nine years earlier, the synopsis for this movie sounds eerily similar to the COVID-19 pandemic—which is probably why this film has recently garnered attention. The Top 10 Supply Chain Disaster Movies 1. Due to unhabitable climates, millions of people would be displaced and relocated.

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The power of Piggybacking in Supply Chain Logistics

The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

billion in sales in 2011.    Despite inadequate infrastructure in East Africa, Coca-Cola bottlers deliver over $500 million worth of product to 1800 “manual” distribution centers operated by 7500 micro-entrepreneurs.   It is the success of Nine Dragons and American Chung Nam has made Ms.

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Supply Chain’s Must Adapt Before Global Conditions Change

Enterra Insights

Back in 2011, supply chain analyst Trevor Miles ( @milesahead ) noted there is a similar sounding word supply chain managers should associate with VUCA. He explains, “I almost feel that we should be shouting ‘Vuka’ which in Xhosa (one of the South Africa languages) means ‘wake up.’ Wake up to the new reality that VUCA is a new norm.”[1]