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The Power of Outsourcing for Supply Chain Improvement

Logistics Bureau

Meanwhile, countries in Southeast Asia, such as Vietnam and Cambodia, are enjoying growth as offshore manufacturing centres. Improve Inventory Management Will your logistics outsourcing strategy include contract warehousing? Similarly, suppose your company needs to purchase materials or goods within a foreign territory, for example.

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Collaboration: The New Battle Cry of Supply Chain

Supply Chain Network

Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Vietnam experienced similar wage-related strikes and walkouts. This increased cost of supply, accompanied by increased risk of supply means logistics costs and transportation delays from these far-flung regions is causing companies to re-examine their supply chains.

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Malaysia a Key Link in Asia’s Disaster Resilience Plan

MIT Supply Chain

But much work remains to be done before such a strategy is in place. One of the key issues is how to build the cross-regional financial, human, materials, supply chain, and technological capacities that underpin the strategy. “It CLI does not offer courses, but rather a series of lectures during two 3-week residence stays.

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Considerations for China Plus Supply Chain Sourcing Actions

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters highlights for readers added indications that China Plus materials supply or production strategies are garnering increased attention from businesses large and small. Apple declined to comment to either of these reports. © Copyright 2023, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog.

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Interoceanic Passages

Abivin

Global Maritime Routes and Chokepoints Maritime routes are a few kilometers wide corridors that connect economic regions and cross land transportation gaps. Major routes also involve the transport of raw commodities, including petroleum, grains, minerals, and food items. They form a continuum. More than 1.14 A total of $1.32

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The Pullback From China: Will it Be Harder for SMEs?

Logistics Bureau

Whether to relocate supply or manufacturing from China to another low-cost country or switch to a near-shoring or re-shoring strategy is not a decision to take lightly. Some of the most notable include: Steve Madden , shoe and bag retailer: Moving production to Cambodia, Brazil, Mexico, and Vietnam.

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Global Sourcing and Human Rights Go Hand in Hand

NC State SCRC

Low-cost country (LCC) sourcing is now a commonplace strategy for shrinking bottom line labor and material costs in most consumer products industries, including apparel, footwear, toys, and other manufactured products. Dow Chemical, for example, considers environmental concerns a critical feature of its policies and procedures.3