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Are Our Agri-Food Supply Chains In Crisis?

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Through trade, countries are able to buy agri-food produce from other parts of the world that are not able to grow efficiently on their own land (or region) or are not in season. He has been the architect of agri-food clusters in Indonesia and Malaysia. These products are distributed back into the retail channel.

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Driving Sustainable Growth Through Supply Chain Resilience

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

More specifically, it took 83 days for container transport from Europe to Asia, and 88 days from North America to Asia. Even in Malaysia, retail sales during Christmas and Chinese New Year showed an 26.5% Brand loyalty is no longer the driver for consumer purchasing decisions.

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Is More Innovation in Education Required?

Enterra Insights

Robert Philkill, a senior sales engineer at Teradici, had a similar experience when he introduced his company’s products to remote schools in Malaysia. America has its own digital divide to conquer. ” The point here is that Beard failed to find “the magic formula for teaching and learning.”

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36 innovative companies re-inventing and rethinking supply chain and logistics

6 River Systems

In 2016, the company increased its EBIT in the Americas by 40%, with continued growth. Nike @Nike Morgan Stanley predicts that Nike will move 20% of its production to more automated factories by 2023 to accommodate the new “buy now, wear now” shopping environment and “fast fashion” demand driven by e-commerce.

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Apple’s China Problem

Logistics Viewpoints

What happened instead was massive theft of intellectual property, huge trade deficits, the hollowing out of the middle class in Europe and North America, and the rise of nativist politics. These controls included a measure to cut China off from certain buying semiconductor chips made anywhere in the world with US tools.

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