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Blue Yonder Associate Makes the Impossible Possible During Missionary Visit to Cambodia 

BlueYonder

Leonardo Viapiana, a Blue Yonder associate in Italy, traveled to Cambodia to volunteer his time to improve health and provide educational services. When reflecting on my volunteer trip to Cambodia, I look back on the intense yet rewarding experiences I endured. It was time to stop supporting from afar and instead, act in person.

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What happens after you toss a recyclable plastic container in the recycle bin?

The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

Since China banned the import of plastic waste (except the cleanest plastics) in late 2017, America has been shipping its plastic waste to other countries including: Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Turkey, etc. . Source: The Guardian.

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SCRC Meeting – Patrick Fox from VF Corporation: “Creating a Global Trade Playbook”

NC State SCRC

We spend most of our time educating them, to ensure that they understand our presence in districts with operations. Most are clueless about the impact of tariffs on apparel operations. For instance, there is a European GSP review of Cambodia in January, one of our second or third largest footprints. What is the trigger point?

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Doing Business in Thailand

QAD

Its bordering countries include Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and Malaysia. The workforce is well-educated and highly skilled, but the low unemployment levels can make it difficult to attract or retain people with sought-after manufacturing skills. Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country not colonized by a European power.

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What does Corporate Social Responsibility Really Mean?

Logistics Bureau

Under its 1-1-1 philanthropic model, it gives one percent of equity, one percent of product, and one percent of employees’ time to non-profits and educational institutions. Under the B1G1 scheme we have helped worthy causes right across the world, including the following: Bringing fresh water to villages in Cambodia.

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Thank You – Logistics Bureau is 19 this Month

Logistics Bureau

Providing education for 19 kids in a remote community in Cambodia. We like Trees, and Kids, and Education and Animals, and lots of other great worthy causes. which has now expanded to provide consulting, performance Benchmarking and Education services. Planting 19 trees in the Daintree Rainforest.

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Analytics Should Focus on A Culture of Factory Safety for Workers in Low Cost Country Manufacturing

NC State SCRC

This will never work – particularly as we move into an era of global outsourcing and contract manufacturing in low cost countries such as Vietnam, India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, and others in Asia. People were not aware of safety issues, and often there was not a culture of safety in the factory.