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The VF Corporation Invested in Supply Chain Agility Before COVID Made “Agility” the New Buzzword

Logistics Viewpoints

Mr. Bailey has worked most of his career at VF – as an industrial engineer in facilities, in strategic sourcing, running offshore operations, and now as the person in charge of the company’s entire supply chain. VFC’s supply chain sourced over 410 million units of apparel, footwear, and accessories in their last fiscal year.

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Building the Network of Networks

Supply Chain Shaman

The group is working on case studies to test new technologies like blockchain, cognitive computing, supply chain operating networks, and open source analytics. Fires in a Bangladesh sewing factory resulted in 112 deaths. The average company has two-to-three material events due to supply chain issues. Why Should You Care?

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Sustainability and the Reverse Supply Chain: The Green Eileen Story

Arkieva

He compared this to the food industry when about 15 years ago, people started becoming aware of the source of their food. In a similar way, he suggested that events such as the factory collapse in Bangladesh are raising the awareness of the environmental impact of the fashion industry.

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How Europe is Coping with Supply Chain Disruption

Jaggaer

They are also calling in support from sectors that are negatively impacted by lockdowns and desperately need the work, such as the events industry and hospitality, according to de Jong. April marks the start of the asparagus harvest in southern Germany, an event that has a quasi-religious significance in some towns and villages.

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Collaboration: The New Battle Cry of Supply Chain

Supply Chain Network

If the events of the past few months have taught us anything, the ability to create and sustain collaborative processes with global supply chain partners is crucial to properly manage, and in some cases, capitalize on complexity. Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Vietnam experienced similar wage-related strikes and walkouts.

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Analytics Should Focus on A Culture of Factory Safety for Workers in Low Cost Country Manufacturing

NC State SCRC

Rather, data is collected and viewed as a means for simply capturing what happened, at a given moment in time, and hopefully glean insights into why an event happened. Low cost country factory problems should be taken seriously, as they create risk for the brand, impact regulatory changes, and impact union management.

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Ethics in Procurement – Simple, but Not Always Easy

Logistics Bureau

How procurement handles itself and its activities set the tone for all the events that follow, right up to the final delivery of goods and services to the end-customer. It may seem strange that procurement, often viewed as an unexciting part of an enterprise, can find itself embroiled in events and situations that make world headlines.