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

Logistics Viewpoints

China, for example, only produces 14% of their total units, only 3% of those units end up being exported to the United States and 2% to EMEA. In Asia, Vietnam and Bangladesh are more important sourcing locations.

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Audit Safe?

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2008, 762 people became dangerously ill in 48 states from contaminated peanut butter in the United States. Just two months later, more than 100 people died in a garment fire in Bangladesh in November 2012. It takes many shapes … like the deaths of nine unknowing consumers. It should not have happened.

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Do You Know Your Suppliers? Counting the Cost of Ignorance

QAD

In Bangladesh in July 2021, a fire at a food factory claimed the lives of at least 52 people, some of whom were children. United States. The company issued this statement at the time: “We explicitly prohibit child labour in our operations and have been working relentlessly to take a stand against this.” In the U.S.,

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Don’t Fret: Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement will not play havoc with the economic development of developing countries

The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

TPP is a unprecedented trade deal in history because it involves 12 countries (United States, Japan, Australia, Peru, Malaysia, Vietnam, New Zealand, Chile, Singapore, Canada, Mexico, and Brunei Darussalam), which accounts for 40% of global trade. (The trillion and US was second with US$ 3.9 trillion.) . Is this concern valid?

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Alternatives to Blockchain in Supply Chain

Logichain Solutions

According to recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 48 million people in the United States (1 in 6) get sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die each year from foodborne diseases. In the year before the collapse, a fire at the Tazreen Fashions factory in Bangladesh killed several hundred workers.

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Alternatives to Blockchain in Supply Chain

Logichain Solutions

According to recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 48 million people in the United States (1 in 6) get sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die each year from foodborne diseases. In the year before the collapse, a fire at the Tazreen Fashions factory in Bangladesh killed several hundred workers.

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Alternatives to Blockchain in Supply Chain

Logichain Solutions

According to recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 48 million people in the United States (1 in 6) get sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die each year from foodborne diseases. In the year before the collapse, a fire at the Tazreen Fashions factory in Bangladesh killed several hundred workers.