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Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (February 3, 2023)

Talking Logistics

A 15-year old boy from Bangladesh was playing hide and seek with his friends and he hid inside a shipping container. Be careful where you hidewhen you’re playing hide-and-seek. Unfortunately, he locked himself in, fell asleep, and ended up in Malaysia six days later. The boy was locked inside the container for 6 whole days.

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

Logistics Viewpoints

In Asia, Vietnam and Bangladesh are more important sourcing locations. The old product development process involved shipping prototypes back and forth. During COVID, VF responded to COVID-driven consumer behaviors by adding new omnichannel capabilities like buy-online, pick-up-in-store and ship-from-store. Conclusion.

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Catastrophic Impacts of COVID19 in Bangladesh Apparel Supply Chain

NC State SCRC

An article written by my former PhD student, Rejaul Hasan, and I just came out this week in Contracting Excellence , the journal published by IACCM, which documents the catastrophe that is unfolding in Bangladesh, one of the world’s major exporters of garments for the apparel sector. No payment was issued on February 17.

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This Week in Logistics New (May 6 – 12)

Logistics Viewpoints

Chile has long been a hub of second-hand and unsold clothing, made in China or Bangladesh and passing through Europe, Asia or the United States before arriving in Chile, where it is resold around Latin America. Some 59,000 tons of clothing arrive each year at the Iquique port in the Alto Hospicio free zone in northern Chile.

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3D Printing: Let’s Not Manufacture False Dawns

MIT Supply Chain

The recent disaster in Bangladesh where hundreds of workers lost their lives when a building collapsed serves as a horrific reminder of this challenge. A company, can, say, tweak a design spec to cut production and shipping costs by reducing the weight of an item. Here are a few examples. More or less visibility? Quality issues.

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The Importance of Social Compliance in The Supply Chain

NFI Industries

In addition to how items are shipped, shippers should also have visibility to how and where products are made to ensure compliance across the entire supply chain. Recent tragedies such as the Plaza garment factory collapse in Bangladesh, has brought to light the. Read More.

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Selecting a Supply Chain Technology Provider is Harder than it Seems

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Tracking your shipment’s status via GPS or Internet of Things (IoT) devices and viewing route duration data throughout the entire shipping process in real-time will allow you to quickly make informed business decisions to optimize productivity and streamline your supply chain. Then he made a career change to shipping.