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Trends 2024: Risk Management

Enterra Insights

Some countries, like Argentina, continue to suffer from hyperinflation, while other countries are seeing inflation rates decrease. “‘The widespread use of misinformation and disinformation, and tools to disseminate it, may undermine the legitimacy of newly elected governments,’ the report warned.

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Bitcoin and the Brutal Truth!

Supply Chain Game Changer

It led people to drive away their trust from banks and even governments controlling the financial system. Different governments have successfully traced back the bitcoin transaction and retrieved a few parts of bitcoin for the portals like FBC 14 Algorithm. It allowed people to use cryptocurrencies with a high degree of anonymity.

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Is Soy the Next Palm Oil?

EHS Sustainability Knowledge at Work

And over 80% of soybean was produced in three countries: the United States (35%), Brazil (29%) and Argentina (18%). Expansion of soy since the 1970s in Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay has seen almost half of the important ecosystem provided by the Cerrado grasslands completely wiped out. What happens next? Soy will continue to expand.

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Transportation in the Americas: A Cross-Country Comparison

MIT Supply Chain

Driver shortage: Instead of just discussing a number that would come from an official statement or an official government statistic, we got much more detail on what is actually happening.” For now, Mendonça, Villena, and Ruiz have focused on just five major markets in the Americas: the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, and Argentina.

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China, Tariffs, and Trade Policy. What’s Going On?

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Per CSMS# 18-00372 , as of June 1, 2018, all countries will be subject to the 232 tariffs except Argentina, Australia, Brazil, and South Korea for steel; for aluminum, all countries will be subject except Argentina and Australia. Then, move on to reviewing classifications for Section 301 items.

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Supply Chain Planning in Emerging Markets: Four Points to Remember

ToolsGroup

Long lead times for imported products, wild currency fluctuations and demand spikes caused by government contract tenders all conspire to make planning difficult …. GDM now serves more than 100 distributors on five continents and in 180 countries from Argentina to Zimbabwe.

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Supplier Financial Health: Don’t Wait for the Worst, Reach out and Talk!

Supply Chain View from the Field

example is the default of Argentina and the associated immediate spread widening on debt of other South American countries (most notably Brazil), as well in the business context of buyer and supplier firms. The issues around supplier financial health has generated increased traction at the federal government level.

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