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How Many Slaves Are in Your Supply Chain?

Talking Logistics

California, for example, passed the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act of 2010 , which went into effect in January 2012. The US State Department estimates that there are 27 million slaves globally. In response, federal and state governments are taking action to drive down the use of slave labor in supply chains.

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Antitrust and the Supply Chain: Protecting the Power of the Markets

NC State SCRC

Generally speaking, the Antitrust Division can start investigating based on just about any source of information, including complaints from private citizens. Very often, this requires collecting and reviewing millions of documents from a company, by utilizing the power of the grand jury. So, what triggers an investigation?

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The Local Food Movement is right around the corner

ITradeNetwork

From a recent survey of some of the major grocery store chains conducted here at iTradeNetwork, sourcing locally fresh food is a direct response to their customer’s desire. But all food simply cannot be sourced locally. Major grocers have also admitted that local providers and local sourcing programs are more difficult to manage too.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 17-21, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Apple Gets Permit to Test Self-Driving Cars in California (New York Times). Source: Amazon patent. Here are some details from the press release: With Haven TMS, Haven evolves from a logistics quote marketplace into a full-featured transportation management system (TMS) with collaboration, procurement, and analysis modules.

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Podcast: Roberto Reichard on Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Capital Projects

Requis

The pressure to be more sustainable also comes from outside sources like governments, banks and customers. Sustainability should impact procurement choices, such as favoring lower embodied carbon products over higher embodied carbon products. Safety and quality became key buying factors during procurement.

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Supplier Diversity Reporting in Utility Industry

Infosys Supply Chain Management

The client was from utility industry located in Las Vegas & had a customer base of approximately 2 million including residential, commercial and industrial customers.They provided natural gas service to parts of Arizona, Nevada, and California. of its procurement from women, minority and disabled veteran-owned business enterprises.

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Client Case Study Video Interview

Eyvo

We recently went to visit one of our clients in the local San Francisco Bay area here in California called Lucid Motors. We did a comprehensive market analysis of the majority of the procurement tools that were available to us and we decided upon the Eyvo eBA system due to a combination of high functionality and reasonable cost.