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S.E.C. Approval of Conflict Minerals Rules: a landmark in supply chain disclosure requirements

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Countries covered by the new rules in addition to the DRC include South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Angola, the Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic. Secretary of State as conflict minerals in the future. Implications for companies and disclosure highlights.

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Mindmap for the Fashion & Luxury Goods Market

Supply Chain Movement

On the other hand, innovations such as wearable technologies are increasingly becoming a standard and technological advancement means that better, easy-to-implement IT tools are available to improve planning across the supply chain. Mindmap for the Fashion & Luxury Goods Market. Choose country. Afghanistan. Ã…land Islands. American Samoa.

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SCM Map Europe: European location decisions remain complex

Supply Chain Movement

The LPI is an interactive benchmarking tool which has been developed to help countries to identify the challenges which are standing in the way of improvements to logistics and trade flows. A second important feature to have been added in this version of the SCM Map of Europe is the World Bank’s Logistics Performance Index (LPI). Afghanistan.

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