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Supply Chain Risk Management Highlighted by a Tiny Computer Chip

Enterra Insights

Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley explain what happened next.[2]. It costs a retailer less to send a shoe to Europe from a factory in Southeast Asia than it does to transport it from a local European warehouse to a shoe store in the same country. That assessment turned up a troubling discovery. All of this is extraordinarily cheap.

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Spire and Gravity Supply Chain solutions helping restore flow of goods

Gravity Supply Chain

Most of the container traffic flows across the Pacific Ocean or between Europe and Asia. ” Looking forward, the new reality is that better understanding and managing weak points in the supply chain will become an increasing responsibility for managers in all companies, especially logistics firms. billion metric tons as of 2017.

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FMCG: ERP’s – how will you cope when yours fails?

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

Business has seen me helping to improve the logistics operations of 2 regional FMCG companies based in North Africa and the far, Far East of Europe, almost in Asia actually. The heiress has completed her Honours Degree in Fine Art so perhaps the annual student house move is a thing of the past.

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