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Thank You – Logistics Bureau is 19 this Month

Logistics Bureau

Providing education for 19 kids in a remote community in Cambodia. He even established his own Supply Chain Leaders Academy in 2012 to follow his passion for education. We’re adding some of our favourite projects: IT and literacy skills training for 19 kids in remote Aboriginal communities.

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Malaysia a Key Link in Asia’s Disaster Resilience Plan

MIT Supply Chain

Each center is also engaged in practical training, such as a program this fall at MISI for UN logistics staff members from Cambodia, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, and Pakistan. Brussels: CRED; 2012. As Goentzel pointed out, every center in the SCALE network offers a graduate course in humanitarian logistics, which is a unique resource.

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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

Though the incidents of “Rana Plaza” and “Tazrin Fashion” in 2012-13 attracted the world’s negative attention and showed still how vulnerable Bangladesh is in terms of work place safety and labor rights, it remains the most desired sourcing destination for major apparel brands and retailers in US and EU.

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Using mobile phones to monitor factory safety in Bangladesh

The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

  Due to higher labor and operating costs in China, more western firms now source their products from Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Vietnam, etc.     However, according to a study conducted by Transparency International in 2012, Bangladesh’s corruption index is equal to 144 (1 = least corrupt). [1]

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What does Corporate Social Responsibility Really Mean?

Logistics Bureau

Since 2012—thanks to the support of our clients and industry colleagues—we have recorded more than 6.8 Under the B1G1 scheme we have helped worthy causes right across the world, including the following: Bringing fresh water to villages in Cambodia. million giving impacts. Providing lunch meals to children in the Philippines.

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3PL Subway 2015: Strategic movements among logistics providers

Supply Chain Movement

According to the figures by Armstrong & Associates for 2012 to 2013, global 3PL revenues rose only modestly (by 2.7%), while the growth rate in Germany was just 0.87% and a meagre 0.01% in Europe as a whole. Bosnia and Herzegovina. Bouvet Island. British Indian Ocean Territory. Brunei Darussalam. Burkina Faso. Cape Verde. Cayman Islands.