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Selecting a Supply Chain Technology Provider is Harder than it Seems

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

For example, having access to transportation lead times, ETAs and location data will enable you to reroute your shipment if there’s a delay. Some technologies even forecast potential delays by collecting data on carriers farther along your route.

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The Power of Outsourcing for Supply Chain Improvement

Logistics Bureau

So, for example, outsourcing sales activity is not typically a good idea if yours is a retail sales company. Meanwhile, countries in Southeast Asia, such as Vietnam and Cambodia, are enjoying growth as offshore manufacturing centres. Let’s take ecommerce as an example.

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Top 6 Wholesale Distribution Trends for 2019

EMERGE App

For example, Vietnam supplies replacement exports for frozen shrimp, leather goods, bags, and furniture. Cambodia, Indonesia, and Vietnam may see a negligible effect because of their low participation in the Chinese production chain. Vietnam, for example, may stand to gain the most from products that it already supplies to the States.

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Collaboration: The New Battle Cry of Supply Chain

Supply Chain Network

Take for example the BRIC nations and the impact this region has across the global economy. This past summer in China, for example, labor disputes—and a spate of worker suicides—contributed to overnight wage increases of 20 percent or more in some Chinese cities. Let’s look at some examples…. How technology can help.

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The Fashion Supply Chain: Unraveling the Reality

Kinaxis

Cambodia, China, Taiwan, India – look at the ‘made in’ labels on your clothing and you’re likely to find these popular clothing manufacturing countries. by Alexa Cheater Whether you’re a fashionista or overly fond of the frumpy look, chances are you’re buying into the multi-billion dollar clothing industry.

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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. A good example occurred in a low cost country factory.

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Tectonic Shift: From Audits/Compliance to Due-diligence & Collaboration: Recap of the Forum on UK Modern Slavery

EcoVadis

An example challenge of trying to gain an understanding down in deeper tiers in the supply chain: Distributors are reluctant to share information on their suppliers for fear of being bypassed (e.g. Cultural challenge example: with 30,000 sugar suppliers in India, how can you impose standards, and educate without ruining traditions.