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Supply Chain Planning in Emerging Markets: Four Points to Remember

ToolsGroup

Supply chain planning in emerging markets is different. Now supply chain professionals have another different set of challenges on how to get product to the entire country where consumer-oriented outlets (i.e. Here’s what we found: 1. fast food or retail) are rapidly expanding. Transfer taxes.

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Bitcoin and the Brutal Truth!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe to 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. Subscribe Here!

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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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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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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

Read this summary, and consider how you will manage potential disruptions to your supply chain as developments continue to unfold. . Additionally, absolute quota will be applicable for imports from Argentina, Brazil, and South Korea for steel imports; and to Argentina for aluminum imports as of June 1, 2018.

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Embracing the South American Ecommerce Marketplace

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Online retailers in South America have been struggling for years to overcome several obstacles to success, including extensive customs delays, poor transportation infrastructure, and the lack of end-to-end supply chain visibility. End-to-end supply chain visibility. and allow products to flow through relatively quickly.