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Sustainable Supply Chains: A Country Comparison

SCM Research

The global not-for-profit organization CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project) has published a report: Supply Chain Sustainability Revealed: A Country Comparison. The report also shows that Brazil, Canada and India must do more to encourage supplier to report emission reduction initiatives. turn out to be particularly vulnerable.

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Transportation in the Americas: A Cross-Country Comparison

MIT Supply Chain

An international transportation comparison with qualitative coding The TTPI gives a country an overall rating on a scale of 1–4. For instance, Brazil and Colombia both come in at 2.4 For now, Mendonça, Villena, and Ruiz have focused on just five major markets in the Americas: the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, and Argentina.

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Embracing the South American Ecommerce Marketplace

CH Robinson Transportfolio

In addition to customs taxes, tariffs, and fees, it can take 30+ days for some goods to be cleared through customs, especially in Brazil and Argentina. In comparison, however, Chilean customs are very similar to the U.S. The largest container port in South America is in the city of Santos in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state.

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Nestle Incorporates Warehouse Logistics to Improve Coffee Supply Chain

RFgen

Department of Agriculture, while locations such as Brazil, Colombia and Indonesia grow coffee, Europe and the United States are coffee’s primary consumers. For comparison, a gallon of diesel in July 2010 was about $2.90. According to the U.S. According to the U.S. a gallon today.

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Nestle Incorporates Warehouse Logistics to Improve Coffee Supply Chain

RFgen

Department of Agriculture, while locations such as Brazil, Colombia and Indonesia grow coffee, Europe and the United States are coffee’s primary consumers. For comparison, a gallon of diesel in July 2010 was about $2.90. According to the U.S. According to the U.S. a gallon today.

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Three Times Tom Hanks Was Faster Than Your Supply Chain (Spoiler Alert)

Aera Technology

Bear in mind that the FDA is only one regulatory body in a world that’s full of them – ANVISA in Brazil, TGA in Australia, MHRA in the U.K., This took nine months, which still pales in comparison to the two years, plus interest, that drugs may spend tied up in regulatory processes.

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Warby Parker vs Luxottica: Supply Chain Disintermediation in the Eyewear Industry

The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

Luxottica has manufacturing facilities in five countries: Italy, China, India, United States and Brazil. It is a captive onshoring and offshoring model, with six facilities based in its home country of Italy, two in China, and one facility each for the US, India and Brazil. An Industry Newcomer: Warby Parker.