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Needed: A New Way to Manage Risk in Low Cost Countries

NC State SCRC

Nowhere are disruptions more prevalent than in Low Cost Countries (LCC’s), which have become the focal point for outsourced contract manufacturing for major apparel brands such as Nike, Under Armour, Gap, Apple, and others. The most obvious way to create social responsibility might be just to avoid sourcing markets with low social standards.

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SCRC Meeting Insights Part II: Management Principles for Executing Visibility Strategies

NC State SCRC

How do we understand and limit the data we focus on for decision-making? The problem in most supply chains is “not enough data”, because data is being created from machines, from people, from systems, and from external sources. No, the problem is too much data, not enough! No easy task.