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China Flexes Its Global Logistics Muscle

Material Handling & Logistics

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. The plan consists of six economic corridors: • China-Mongolia-Russia. Eurasian Land Bridge.

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The Environmental Crackdown in China: Supply Chains Impacts Continue

EcoVadis

Some factories may have been forced to move to countries with more lenient environmental regulations such as India or Bangladesh. Environment is one of the four themes in the EcoVadis sustainability rating process, along with labor and human rights, ethics and sustainable procurement. Impact on the Automotive Industry.

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4 Ways Supplier CSR Ratings Can Help SRM Systems Capture $550 Billion Opportunity

EcoVadis

Supplier Relationship Management SRM represents a giant $550 billion opportunity for procurement to create value according to this recent Digital SRM Research Report from our partner State of Flux. With this insight in your SRM system, you can make better procurement decisions all along the source-to-pay journey.

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Handfield’s Top Supply Chain Predictions for 2016

NC State SCRC

The recent publicity generated by the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh, and other labor risks, has elevated the importance of integrating these issues into the sourcing decision. Talent should be part of building a procurement transformation, and not an after-thought.