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Demand-Driven Transformation at Shell

Supply Chain Shaman

Completed in 2012, the ERP project forced the company to standardize organizational design, roles, and metrics. When the price of oil dropped from $120 per barrel in 2012 to the staggering $29 per barrel in 2015, everyone in the oil and gas industry felt the impact. A Brief History of IT Investments. Talking numbers worked.

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Supply chain software demands continual attention

Supply Chain Movement

We’ve grown strongly over the past ten years, particularly in France and Belgium, and that’s one of the reasons for us to make that investment now. The freshness of the potatoes is crucial to the quality of our crisps, for example, which makes it necessary to be based close to the source. That demands a lot of attention. Google-level.

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Freeports: The 2022 Guide

Unleashed

Croatia has the highest number of freeports in the EU with Austria, Belgium, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Slovakia, and Sweden having none. In the US free trade zones are often used by manufacturers to produce goods using components sourced overseas – which can mean significant savings on tariffs.

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Global Cargo Monitoring / Cargo Tracking: Police warning after drug.

Global Trade Management

By having many service providers involved, which among each other are often not connected, the friction in moving goods from source to destination are very high. The organised crime group allegedly used hackers based in Belgium to infiltrate computer networks in at least two companies operating in the port of Antwerp. ► 2012. (1).

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