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Safety at Garment Factories: More than Just a Compliance Matter

Pivot88

When the Rana Plaza building collapsed in Bangladesh’ capital, Dhaka, in 2013, more than 1,100 people died and thousands more were injured. It became clear that safety standards and regulation are very poor in Bangladesh, the world’s second biggest garment industry after China.

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The World is About to Get Even More Connected through the Internet of Things

Enterra Insights

Back in 2018, Morgan observed that most of the world was already connected. It even helped National Geographic track a discarded plastic bottle from Bangladesh to the Indian Ocean. ” Datafloq, 6 March 2018. [2] .” He left out one of the most important parts of the IoT ecosystem: analytics. Footnotes. [1]

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Logistics Execs Split on Outcome of NAFTA Talks

Material Handling & Logistics

Executives in a new survey, 2018 Agility Emerging Markets Logistics Index, are divided about whether a new pact would help Mexico (24.3%); hurt Mexico (21.8%); or leave trade unchanged (25.7%). 2018 Index and Survey Highlights. China and India top the 2018 rankings and put more distance between themselves and No. GDP growth.

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Using Data on Worker Sense of Value to Guide Improvements in Social Performance in the Supply Chain

EcoVadis

The following text was written by Wenjuan Yao, China Director at Verité , a global non-profit organization looking to ensure safe, fair and legal work conditions for people all around the world, and originally published in the “ CSR Risk and Performance Index 2018.” Based on Verité’s findings, Gap Inc.

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Alternatives to Blockchain in Supply Chain

Logichain Solutions

Yet, according to a Gartner 2018 survey , only one percent of CIOs indicated any kind of blockchain adoption within their organizations, and only eight percent of CIOs were in short-term planning or active experimentation with blockchain. coli outbreaks of romaine lettuce in 2017 and 2018. coli outbreak at Chipotle in 2015 or the E.

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Alternatives to Blockchain in Supply Chain

Logichain Solutions

Yet, according to a Gartner 2018 survey, only one percent of CIOs indicated any kind of blockchain adoption within their organizations, and only eight percent of CIOs were in short-term planning or active experimentation with blockchain. coli outbreaks of romaine lettuce in 2017 and 2018. coli outbreak at Chipotle in 2015 or the E.

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Alternatives to Blockchain in Supply Chain

Logichain Solutions

Yet, according to a Gartner 2018 survey, only one percent of CIOs indicated any kind of blockchain adoption within their organizations, and only eight percent of CIOs were in short-term planning or active experimentation with blockchain. coli outbreaks of romaine lettuce in 2017 and 2018. coli outbreak at Chipotle in 2015 or the E.