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Malaysia a Key Link in Asia’s Disaster Resilience Plan

MIT Supply Chain

This post was published in the summer 2013 issue of the MIT SCALE Network electronic newsletter Supply Chain Frontiers. This was one of the main talking points at the 2013 Health & Humanitarian Logistics Conference, hosted by the Malaysia Institute for Supply Chain Innovation (MISI) in Malaysia this June.

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Needed: A New Way to Manage Risk in Low Cost Countries

NC State SCRC

Faced with stiff price competition in their home markets, the apparel industry was one of the first to adopt the outsourced supply chain concept (Wieland and Handfield, 2013; 2014). For example, in Bangladesh, mostly women and often children are exposed to risks from lacking safety standards in garment factories.

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Sector collaboration on sustainability accelerates, as a sixth industry creates an initiative with EcoVadis

EcoVadis

For example, the association AIM-Progress, in its late-2016 report, announced that one-third of its members had no system in place to address the “ UK Modern Slavery Act ” when it became law in 2015. Over the same period, 90 percent of its members had also incorporated environmental objectives into their procurement processes.

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Professor Yossi Sheffi on Resilience, Visibility, and Biggest Risks this Holiday Season

Elementum

They wanted to know what would happen were another terrorist attack to target an economic hub—a port or a refinery, for example. Now, though, we might go to China for some things, but for assembly we might go to Vietnam, Malaysia, or more recently, an African country. Supply chain management is becoming a lot more sophisticated.”.

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China Flexes Its Global Logistics Muscle

Material Handling & Logistics

Announced in 2013 by Chinese President Xi Jinping, the plan would link China’s Silk Road Economic Belt Project in Central Asia—which was aimed at connecting with Europe via Central Asia to increase trade between the Asia-Pacific region and Europe—with its Maritime Silk Road stretching from the South China Sea to the Indian Ocean.

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Things you need to master to sell more on marketplaces

Vinculum

Asian Pacific countries like Malaysia, Singapore are the countries with growing opportunities for a thriving online marketplace. by December 2013 as per the reports of research firm IDC. For example, healthy eating is adopted by several customers, seeing this Mcdonald’s added healthy food options in their menu.

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The Upswing of Chinese Logistics Companies

Elementum

In 2015, the Asian-Pacific region dominated the industry with significant impact from China, India, Singapore, Indonesia, Japan, and Malaysia. ZTO Express, officially established in 2013, works through approximately 7,700 network partners. The global logistics market is expected to grow from US $8.1T in 2015 to US $15.5T