The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

The global trade amounts to US$ 38 trillion in 2014, where China took the lead with US$ 4.2 TPP is a unprecedented trade deal in history because it involves 12 countries (United States, Japan, Australia, Peru, Malaysia, Vietnam, New Zealand, Chile, Singapore, Canada, Mexico, and Brunei Darussalam), which accounts for 40% of global trade. (The

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 22, 2014

UPS Establishes Freight Forwarding Services in Myanmar. The post This Week in Logistics News (August 18-22, 2014) appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez. New AT&T Fleet Management Solutions Help Transportation Companies Improve Fleet Performance And Efficiency. ATA Truck Tonnage Index Increased 1.3%

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NC State SCRC

AUGUST 23, 2017

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). A recent article (Chu, 2012) noted that low cost countries all have the same problems that factories in Bangladesh do.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 6, 2023

Food Security in a Volatile World Even before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Patrick Webb , the Alexander McFarlane Professor of Nutrition at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, observed, “From the mid-2000s to around 2014, there was a period where we essentially didn’t have any famine in the world.

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AFFLINK

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

The workers, mostly in Cambodia and Myanmar, were paid unreasonably and locked into contracts. Editor's Note: This blog was originally published March 17, 2014 and has since been updated and expanded upon with new information.

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Supply Chain Movement

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

After years of declining revenues in European logistics services, the business started to stabilise in 2013/2014. However, Technavio’s analysts now forecast the 3PL market in Europe to grow at a CAGR of 2.87% over the period 2014-2019. Acquisitions dominated the logistics headlines in 2014 and that trend is continuing this year.

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