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Globalization’s Ongoing Realignment

Enterra Insights

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China’s increasingly authoritarian policies have only added a shrill edge to commentators’ predictions about the future of globalization. There continues to be myriad articles published about globalization. Most analysts agree the golden age of globalization has passed. The flow of people.

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Addressing Global Food Security

Enterra Insights

Converging disruptions have sent food prices soaring — and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, one of the world’s six breadbasket regions, risks tilting the food system into global crisis.”[1] The fact that grains underpin global food security is one reason so much attention has been given to the conflict in Ukraine. Climatic events.

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The Future of Food Security

Enterra Insights

She stated, “We must use big data and digital tools to protect food security and increase climate resilience. New technologies and data generation can transform business practices across the agricultural value chain and address bottlenecks in, productivity, harvesting, market access, finance, and supply chain management.”[1]

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Artificial Intelligence and the Global Agriculture Value Chain

Enterra Insights

” The most publicized conflict-related disruptions to the global agriculture value chain have been those associated with Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. ” The impact on the Ukrainian agricultural sector has been devastating. ” The impact on the Ukrainian agricultural sector has been devastating.

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Freight Market Intelligence: Data is crucial, but context is king

Freightos

We tend to focus on pivotal events like COVID supply chain issues or the Russian invasion of Ukraine as game-changing events. We must fight the temptation of Big Data and, instead, focus on The Right Data…at the right time. Looking Forward If there’s been one constant recently, it’s that global freight moves fast.

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Inventory and Inflation

Enterra Insights

The economy is a mess, consumer spending is unpredictable, and the war in Ukraine continues to roil.” As Stokel-Walker explains, “The speedy way to untangle the mess would be to break the cycle of feast and famine — but that’s easier said than done. Smaller retailers order less stock more often on shorter lead times.

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What Kind of Reset Does the Supply Chain Need? Part One

Enterra Insights

However, in the face of international trade policy change and global tax reforms, massive disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, increasing China-US tensions, shipping delays, and environmental, social and governance (ESG) pressures, companies in many sectors are being forced to shift to segmented ‘supply networks.’