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Supply Chain and Logistics Resolutions for 2017: 4 Things to STOP Doing This Year

Talking Logistics

Today, I’m adding to the list of resolutions, but instead of focusing on things you should do this year, I’m focusing on 4 things you should stop doing in 2017. It’s now 2017. The same resolutions still apply today, so I encourage you to re-read the post in case you forgot them or ignored the advice the first time around.

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Implications from the Rana Plaza Disaster (Guest Post by Brian Jacobs and Vinod Singhal)

SCM Research

Rana Plaza, an eight-story building in Bangladesh that housed garment factories employing approximately 5000 workers, collapsed on April 24, 2013. To examine this assumption, we studied the stock market reaction to 39 global apparel retailers with significant sourcing in Bangladesh. Jacobs, B., & Singhal, V. 2017.01.002.

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Supply Chain News on Procurement News Round Up for Aug. 8, 2017

Supply Chain Digest

Bangladesh Launches Program to Map Apparel Suppliers, Best Interview Questions for Procurement Hires, Jail Sentences for Principals in UK Horsemeat Scandal

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Building the Network of Networks

Supply Chain Shaman

Fires in a Bangladesh sewing factory resulted in 112 deaths. In 2017, supplier performance issues resulted in the bankruptcy of Aerosole. These three drivers are why supply chain leaders should work together to build the network of networks: Brand Protection. The factory was a second tier supplier to a primary Wal-Mart supplier.

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Bitcoin’s Impact on the Textile Industry!

Supply Chain Game Changer

1st July 2017, around 16 million users worldwide were using Bitcoin as their primary digital currency. Bitcoin technology is not new; it was created in 2009 by an anonymous group called Satoshi Nakamoto. Since then, they announced that this decentralized system could transfer value or money without using any central party like banks, etc.

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Alternatives to Blockchain in Supply Chain

Logichain Solutions

A Geodis 2017 Supply Chain Worldwide Survey revealed that only six percent of the respondents have full visibility to their entire supply chain. coli outbreaks of romaine lettuce in 2017 and 2018. The Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh on April 24, 2013 killed over 1,100 garment workers and injured more than 2,000.

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Alternatives to Blockchain in Supply Chain

Logichain Solutions

A Geodis 2017 Supply Chain Worldwide Survey revealed that only six percent of the respondents have full visibility to their entire supply chain. coli outbreaks of romaine lettuce in 2017 and 2018. The Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh on April 24, 2013 killed over 1,100 garment workers and injured more than 2,000.