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Responsible sourcing and palm oil – a #ProvenanceLive recap

Provenance

Yet today, it’s a common ingredient in so many of our products, from biscuits and ice cream to lipsticks and soaps, with palm oil consumption quadrupling between 1995 and 2015 ( The Guardian, 2019 ). Aim to source 100% certified RSPO (Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil). Get to know your supply chain. Talk to your shoppers.

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Plan for greater success: What experts said at Quintiq World Tour Singapore 2015

DELMIA Quintiq

Suhas Bhise (Head of PPC, Logistics and Sourcing, Arvind Limited): At Arvind, we began looking for a new solution because there was a limitation to how much our existing planning system could meet our requirements. But today I say, “Why wait?” We have an enormous database of knowledge accumulated over the past 10 years or so.

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CSR Initiatives in the Global Supply Chain

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

In Malaysia, CEVA Logistics worked closely with L’Oréal , a major producer of luxury and consumer products, to develop a social initiative of providing jobs for the hearing impaired at our warehouse since June 2020. CEVA Logistics actively reaches out to support social innovations and engage local communities. Photo Credit: L’Oréal.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 16 – 22)

Logistics Viewpoints

The words “avian flu” often trigger alarm bells for the majority of the population, as was evident with the avian flu outbreaks in the US that led to the culling of hundreds of thousands of chickens and turkeys in 2015 and 2017.

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What’s New in 2015 for the supply chain world? See 2014?s predictions.

Supply Chain View from the Field

I sure called this one right…Globalization linked with increasing labor costs in countries such as China, as well as fuel costs and regulatory shifts, are driving a dramatic impact on where companies source, where they produce, and the complexity of processes required to sell to the customer.

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Want to Succeed at a Large Firm? Become an Entrepreneur

Logistics Viewpoints

Then Jabil handles the sourcing and manufacturing of those products. They are sourcing from over 27,000 suppliers. Those sites are primarily located in China, Hungary, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, and the United States. Tymon was promoted to director of advanced planning in 2015 and led this initiative.

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October Global PMI Reporting-Continued Production Contraction

Supply Chain Matters

Weaker-than-expected sales and the delayed shipment of goods led to: “ the strongest rise in inventories of postproduction items since September 2015. This index is a compilation of seven ASEAN nations- Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand , and Vietnam. The reported value of 49.5 declined 0.7