The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

MARCH 11, 2015

When something bad happens at a factory in a developing country such as Bangladesh or China, the whole world wants to identify and punish the real culprit.     For example, it was not a simple task to identify the person who was responsible for the collapse of the factory building in Rana Plaza (Bangladesh). 

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 26, 2018

The group is working on case studies to test new technologies like blockchain, cognitive computing, supply chain operating networks, and open source analytics. These three drivers are why supply chain leaders should work together to build the network of networks: Brand Protection. For example: Orders?

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Intelligent Audit

JUNE 30, 2022

Retail supply chain management has always been a complicated and complex process. But in the timeframe between 2020 to 2022, a volatile supply chain market showed the weakness in outdated, legacy supply chain execution built on rigid technology or lacking any accurate data that can improve overall decision-making.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 16, 2020

To provide insights into the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic and its impact on supply chains around the world, we are delivering a blog series to help anyone looking for support and advice. Our experts, who have spent years in the supply chain industry, share their insights. All non-essential businesses shut down.

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Material Handling & Logistics

AUGUST 30, 2017

Attacks on global supply chains by terrorist groups have hit the highest rate ever as have associated costs, according to a report recently released by BSI. In particular, terrorists increasingly targeted industries generally associated with private or corporate supply chains rather than state-owned supply chain infrastructure.

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QAD

JULY 7, 2022

Can you identify all your suppliers in the supply chain? A recent Quality Digest article suggested that “ethical supply chain management is being fueled by consumer demand, profitability, and visibility. For example, new laws have been or will soon be enacted in the U.S. In the U.S., and across Europe.

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Jaggaer

APRIL 14, 2020

In Italy, for example, approximately 150,000 agricultural labourers are from abroad, according to the Italian statistical office, Istat. Much of the available domestic labour, for example hotel and bar staff on furlough, simply are not used to field work. And of course, the problem is acute right across Europe. The longer-term impacts.

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Supply Chain Network

JUNE 30, 2011

If the mantra of the real estate industry is “Location, Location, Location”, the new mantra of supply chain executives is fast becoming “Collaboration, Collaboration, Collaboration”. Take for example the BRIC nations and the impact this region has across the global economy. How technology can help.

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Supply Chain Movement

AUGUST 31, 2017

China’s position as a production location is currently a hot topic amongst global thought leaders in supply chain. This is one of the most common questions that I’m asked when holding keynote speeches, workshops or supply-chain training courses. By Heidi Larsen, Supply Chain Princess.

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MIT Supply Chain

MAY 23, 2013

3D printing is being hailed as a breakthrough technology that will revolutionize manufacturing and supply chain management. Yet there are a number of important supply chain-related questions about the technology and its application that still need to be answered. Here are a few examples. More or less visibility?

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EcoVadis

MAY 17, 2018

Not only tier-1, but also tier-2 and tier-3 suppliers were impacted as the risk has extended further down the supply chain. Thousands of factories were suspended and were unable to meet production deadlines, which had a knock-on effect on both local and international supply chains. Managing Risk in Your Supply Chain.

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NC State SCRC

AUGUST 23, 2017

As organizations have expanded their supply chains globally, they have moved to outsourced manufacturing that reduces cost, but which also exposes their brand to greater risk. This has allowed global brands to create extremely responsive supply chains and bring lower priced apparel to store shelves.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Global infrastructure, supply chains, food systems, asset prices, land and labor productivity, and economic growth itself are increasingly at risk of deterioration due to a rapidly changing climate. ” Such severe flooding will disrupt supply chains and create social, financial, and political chaos. ”[6].

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Supply Chain Movement

JULY 19, 2016

the world’s largest network of optical retail stores is far along the path from historically being supplier-led to having a strong demand driven supply chain. And we are still on a journey with many more opportunities,” the Vice President Supply Chain says. Until a few years ago we were a very supply driven company.

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Requis

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Supply chain and logistics consultant, educator, and podcast host Rob O’Byrne has over 40 years of supply chain experience. He has been helping companies design more profitable supply chains for over 25 years, most of them as founder and CEO of Logistics Bureau. Highlights from the Conversation.

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EcoVadis

JULY 3, 2014

This is the holy grail of supply chain sustainability management. EcoVadis sees 3 progressive stages of Supply chain sustainability management: stage 1 – Risk Management : protecting your brand, preventing disruptions and potential litigations. Supply chain regulations around the world are also getting stricter.

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Jaggaer

JULY 23, 2019

Supply chains are multi-tiered and therefore difficult to manage. For example, nowadays sustainability is top of mind, which means that manufacturers and suppliers must not only ensure quality from an aesthetic perspective, but also be able to demonstrate that human, animal and environmental rights are respected.

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EcoVadis

MAY 21, 2014

Jury is currently Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Bergamo University (Bergamo, Italy), focusing his research on Sustainable Supply Chain Management. In the last two decades companies have been required to assure that good environmental and social performance were achieved across their supply chains (MIT, 2009).

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

A refrain from a Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart song from the Broadway musical “Pal Joey,” could be a tune sung nightly by today’s supply chain managers. He stated, “Strong consumer demand has outpaced supply chain operations since late last year and could remain a challenge as the holidays approach.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 3, 2019

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. The Green Supply Chain: True Sustainability or Just One Big Marketing Stunt? Sustainability is created in the textile factories of Bangladesh. Supply Chains and supplier bases are much more extensive and complex networks than what the eye can see, or can be managed in Tier 1.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Procurement is what sets entire supply chains and their organisations in motion. For example, how would you deal with the following situations in procurement? You are responsible for the procurement of janitorial supplies for your mid-sized company. Read on for more about these examples in the text that follows.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 24, 2015

Despite the disaster at the Savar garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, data indicates that many consumers continue to demand the cheapest obtainable goods, regardless of human cost. For example, Apple cannot launch iPhone production in the U.S. Some manufacturers still resist the costs of conformance to U.S safety requirements.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 7, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights for readers added indications that China Plus materials supply or production strategies are garnering increased attention from businesses large and small. One example indicated was that U.S. © Copyright 2023, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog.

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NC State SCRC

AUGUST 7, 2017

This will never work – particularly as we move into an era of global outsourcing and contract manufacturing in low cost countries such as Vietnam, India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, and others in Asia. A good example occurred in a low cost country factory.

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Material Handling & Logistics

AUGUST 16, 2017

Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar. This is truly a brilliant plan on China’s part,” explains David Gonsalvez, CEO of the Malaysia Institute for Supply Chain Innovation, which is part of the MIT Global Supply Chain and Logistics Excellence Network. For example, China is Malaysia’s top trading partner.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 19, 2022

Unless you are part the food supply chain, you might not be aware that last July China ceased exporting fertilizer to the rest of world. What does this mean for the food supply chain? Consequences for the Food Supply Chain. ” The opposite is also true: Less fertilizer use means less food production.

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EMERGE App

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Other countries outside of yours will have an advantage in producing certain goods because of lower costs, a highly-tuned supply chain or an abundance of raw materials and labour. For example, China for just about everything that can be made, Vietnam for clothing and shoes, and Bangladesh for garments.

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EMERGE App

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Other countries outside of yours will have an advantage in producing certain goods because of lower costs, a highly-tuned supply chain or an abundance of raw materials and labour. For example, China for just about everything that can be made, Vietnam for clothing and shoes, and Bangladesh for garments.

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EMERGE App

JULY 16, 2018

Best of all, rather than bore you with a dry report and statistics on creating private label products for Amazon FBA, I will weave everything around a completely fictitious example, which might very well work for you in real life! However, you’ll need to allow about 16 days for shipping alone between Shanghai and Seattle, for example.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 10, 2022

Efforts to Foster Better Food Supply Chain Resilience. Quite to the contrary, a lot of people are working hard to help ensure the global food supply chain remains resilient. .” The specter of insufficient, high-priced, and less nutritious food should be frightening and spur the world to action. ”[9].

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 28, 2015

If there’s anything we’ve learned in the last year, it’s that prediction is not only much more complicated than it looks, and that the volatility and uncertainty that exists in the global supply chain operating environment is making life a whole lot LESS unpredictable.

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Material Handling & Logistics

MAY 2, 2018

Much of the food waste produced around the world can be traced back to inconsistencies in the supply chain: inventories aren’t recorded, suppliers aren’t informed, and quality isn’t taken into account. The Cold Chain Conundrum. You may be asking, “What can we do?” This is all about to change.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

OCTOBER 4, 2015

We may also see forums for industry collaboration that identifies best practices, shared insights, and an opportunity to drive a standard approach to what are emerging as very large and complex risks in the global supply chain. For example, do we have the information on when we are buying energy – during peak hours or not?

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EcoVadis

MARCH 17, 2016

As companies have tried to gain greater visibility over their supply chains, most have deployed an “audit cycle approach” to enforce supplier compliance with client company policies and expectations. Audits are ineffective tools for detecting, reporting , or correcting environmental and labour problems in supply chains.”.

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NC State SCRC

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

As the industry has grown, it moved over to Japan, Italy, Canada, and other flowed from there to Mexico, Europe, Portugal, Turkey, than Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Indonesia – and eventually settled in China and in Bangladesh. That is where most of the business goes today – Bangladesh and Pakistan.

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Bristlecone

MARCH 23, 2020

How Global Supply Chains will be Affected at a Macro Level by the COVID-19 Pandemic. COVID-19 is leaving an indelible impression on global supply chains. The supply chains are strained. They are the last stop in the consumer products supply chain and typically, it’s an industry rife with channel inventory.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 26, 2021

We’ll begin with a look at which of the larger, most well-known companies have already shifted some of their supply chain activity away from China, are in the process currently, or have announced plans to do so. Let’s see what the evidence suggests. Which Large Enterprises are Pulling Back From China?

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