The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JUNE 30, 2022

Selecting a Supply Chain Technology Provider is Harder than it Seems. In India, the Central Government’s focus on improving all aspects of the supply chain means that all supply chain users must start thinking carefully about how to create a streamlined and agile supply chain to keep up with the changing global environment.

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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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SCM Research

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

Last week, a well-made special report by Raconteur, titled Supply Chain 2015 (pdf), was distributed in The Times of London. Other topics covered by the report are, among others, strategic procurement, top technologies, demand prediction, sustainable supply chains and cross-border delivery.

Pharmaceutical 110

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Supply Chain View from the Field

MAY 6, 2013

News of the increasing death toll in Bangladesh continues to pour in, with the latest at 600 found dead in the rubble of the Rama factory complex. Demonstrators are protesting apparel offices (such as Gap’s offices in San Francisco) to demand better working conditions in Bangladesh factories. But this is not enough.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 25, 2022

Against an already turbulent backdrop of global inflationary pressures amid rising food and energy prices and disrupted supply chains following the coronavirus pandemic, the war between Russia and Ukraine is exacerbating supply and demand tensions, damaging consumer sentiment, and is threatening global economic growth.”[1]

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Supply Chain View from the Field

MAY 8, 2013

In our ongoing discussion of labor and human rights violations in the supply chain, we’ve discussed in prior posts the problems that occurred in Bangladesh resulting in over 700 dead. Companies like Nike and Disney have publicly stated that they are not going to Bangladesh for apparel sourcing in the future.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

JANUARY 30, 2013

The recent press in the Wall Street Journal and other papers on Walmart’s fire in Bangladesh is raising the ire of corporate responsibility groups and human rights groups alike. So if you are tier one supplier in a country like Bangladesh, and a major retailer is your customer – what will you do? Or the buyer?

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Arkieva

OCTOBER 1, 2015

At the recently concluded Supply Chain Insights Global Summit, I heard a talk from Cheryl Campbell and Kevin Cooke from the Eileen Fisher Company. She had a desire to make Green Eileen sustainable in the near future and she was looking for ways to do so. As proof, he pointed to the number of food documentaries on Netflix.

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Kinaxis

JULY 24, 2015

And whether you realize it or not, the garment industry supply chain is changing – both for the better and for the worse. Apparently, the $67 a month workers make in Bangladesh was getting to be too costly. This really speaks to the heart of the issue – global supply chain visibility and transparency.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 17, 2013

Just two months later, more than 100 people died in a garment fire in Bangladesh in November 2012. Over the last ten years, supply chains have become more complex. Supply chain risks abound. Supply chain leaders may have outsourced their supply chains, but they cannot outsource the risk.

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SCM Research

MARCH 15, 2017

Today’s guest post comes from Brian Jacobs and Vinod Singhal, who present the results of their recent research on social issues in global textile supply chains. Rana Plaza, an eight-story building in Bangladesh that housed garment factories employing approximately 5000 workers, collapsed on April 24, 2013. 2017.01.002.

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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. Can Your Business Answer These Questions Around ESG Issues and CSR? In the U.S., and across Europe.

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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. Sit down 100 people and ask them, “What comes to mind you hear the word sustainability?” Businesses must serve as the champions of sustainability. Subscribe Here!

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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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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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Pivot88

JUNE 20, 2019

When the Rana Plaza building collapsed in Bangladesh’ capital, Dhaka, in 2013, more than 1,100 people died and thousands more were injured. It became clear that safety standards and regulation are very poor in Bangladesh, the world’s second biggest garment industry after China. An Accord and an Alliance. But it goes even beyond that.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 10, 2022

Sustainable Development Goal to eliminate hunger worldwide by 2030. Unaware that a pandemic was just around the corner, Fan remained optimistic hunger could be eliminated with an aggressive, innovative, and sustained effort. Efforts to Foster Better Food Supply Chain Resilience. Since then, things have only gotten worse.

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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. The California Supply Chains Act in 2010 is another example.

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Logichain Solutions

JULY 30, 2018

With the buzz around blockchain, many important supply chain concepts are being used interchangeably and create confusion. Are companies using blockchain to create visibility in their supply chain, or to trace products downstream and upstream in the supply chain? Supply chain visibility.

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SCM Research

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

The Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh in 2013 has opened the eyes of many supply chain managers: Implementing a socially responsible supply chain has, indeed, become an imperative for global corporations and the supply chain management discipline might be in the middle of a paradigm shift.

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Supply Chain Movement

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Contents Supply Chain Movement 16 – 2015 Q1. Our supply-chain future: fair sharing – column. 11 | Snapshots Roundtables Supply Chain Movement. In the rapidly changing economy, countless companies need advice on strategy and especially supply chain management. 6 | News & Background.

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Logichain Solutions

JULY 30, 2018

With the buzz around blockchain, many important supply chain concepts are being used interchangeably and create confusion. Are companies using blockchain to create visibility in their supply chain, or to trace products downstream and upstream in the supply chain? Supply chain visibility.

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Logichain Solutions

JULY 30, 2018

With the buzz around blockchain, many important supply chain concepts are being used interchangeably and create confusion. Are companies using blockchain to create visibility in their supply chain, or to trace products downstream and upstream in the supply chain?

Supply Chain Planning Software 40

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Logichain Solutions

JULY 30, 2018

With the buzz around blockchain, many important supply chain concepts are being used interchangeably and create confusion. Are companies using blockchain to create visibility in their supply chain, or to trace products downstream and upstream in the supply chain?

Supply Chain Planning Software 40

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Logichain Solutions

JULY 30, 2018

With the buzz around blockchain, many important supply chain concepts are being used interchangeably and create confusion. Are companies using blockchain to create visibility in their supply chain, or to trace products downstream and upstream in the supply chain?

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 26, 2023

Trust is commonly understood to be fundamental to the health and sustainability of relationships. dependence on Chinese products and supply chains — for both economic and national security reasons.”[6] But for all the talk of supply chain de-risking and resilience, similar moves in other sectors are hard to spot.”[8]

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Supply Chain Movement

MARCH 24, 2015

As a result of the growth in the outsourcing of manufacturing worldwide, ethical problems are also increasing in the supply chain: a catastrophic fire in a contract manufacturer’s overcrowded factory in Bangladesh and recalls of branded products containing harmful substances, to name but a few.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 5, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights of reported February 2024 global and regional production and supply chain PMI indices. Supply chain stresses seem to have faded somewhat, at least on aggregate.” Noted was a sustained rise in production levels and a further drop in backlogs of work.

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EcoVadis

JANUARY 25, 2019

” Once companies begin to engage their value chain partners on sustainability topics, either through assessments, audits or similar data collection processes, the next challenge is how to help them improve. The findings reported in a new white paper from Gap Inc. Based on Verité’s findings, Gap Inc.

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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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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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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”. Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Vietnam experienced similar wage-related strikes and walkouts. Let’s look at some examples….

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Pivot88

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Nobody wants another tragedy like Rana Plaza in Bangladesh to happen. Global apparel and footwear companies or brands that order products manufactured in factories also have a responsibility to ensure that the rights of workers are respected throughout their supply chain.” Never again. Transparency is the only way forward.

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Arena Solutions

APRIL 21, 2022

Water pollution shrank or completely stopped on the beaches of Bangladesh, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Maldives. In celebration of Earth Day, we’re proud to highlight the work of our sustainably minded EV customers and other e-mobility innovators who are investing in our planet through technology. EV sales are expected to reach 6.4

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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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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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Supply Chain Movement

MAY 24, 2016

Adequate demand planning and accurate inventory investments are key to successful supply chain management in this fast-moving industry. Bangladesh. IT systems need to be tightly integrated to provide the necessary insight into the end-to-end supply chain. American Samoa. Antarctica. Antigua and Barbuda. Azerbaijan.

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