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A chat with Scott Phillips

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Global Supply Chain & Sourcing Director for ECCO Global Shoe Production & Sourcing. My projects in Malaysia, Philippines, China, Indonesia and eventually Vietnam, ranged from customer service and order fulfillment, shop-floor planning, inventory management, import/export and procurement.

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The Cost of Climate Change on Your Supply Chain

Kinaxis

In 2014, three of the top five biggest supply chain disruptions were related to natural disasters. The report is predicting economies including Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines could be as much as a quarter less productive than they are now.

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From Greater Production Traceability to Combating Biodiversity Loss and Meeting UN Sustainable Development Goal 15

EcoVadis

Some areas, such as the Philippines, have lost up to 89 percent of their original forest cover.” The Amazon Biome Soy Moratorium is a pledge by companies not to trade or finance soy from areas deforested after 2008, which has since contributed to reducing deforestation in the Amazon region by 70 percent between 2005 and 2014.

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Prep Your Supply Chain for Super Typhoon Soudelor

Elementum

Mitigation Best Practices: Identify inventory, impacted manufacturing sites, alternative sources, and re-align production schedules. Super Typhoon Halong, which hit the Philippines in 2014, cost businesses over $10 billion and knocked out supply chains for 41 weeks.

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Demand-Driven Transformation at Shell

Supply Chain Shaman

Over this period of 2013-2014 Shell made good progress on inventory, but faced unprecedented supply price volatility. Nick formed a tight-knit implementation group with business users, and technologists used the backbone of SAP ERP to source master data and transactional flows from SAP and into Orchestr8. Talking numbers worked.

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Asia Supply Chain Excellence Report: Issue, January 2013

Tompkins Blog

January 2014. Given that China represents the lions share of Asian sourcing, it is worthwhile to take some time to focus on its risks. While supply chain risks in China are not typically as pronounced as that of other Asian sourcing countries, the high volume sourced from China raises the total risk.

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Interoceanic Passages

Abivin

A major enlargement project that raised the capacity to around 100 transits per day was completed in 2014. billion of its total revenue in the fiscal year 2014, placing it as the third-largest source of income in the nation. The canal's depth increased with additional widening and deepening operations, reaching 23.5

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