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Supply Chain Ethical and Compliance Issue- Volkswagen

Supply Chain Matters

Background Supply chain ethical and social responsibility, that which umbrellas ESG conformance, have increasingly become a concern for businesses, large and small, along with their procurement organizations. Governments including Canada , Germany , and the United Kingdom have enacted special legislation in these areas.

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Snapshot of 2023 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains- Part Two

Supply Chain Matters

2023 Prediction Three: More Direct Control in Strategic or Tactical Multi-tiered Direct Materials Sourcing will Continue to be a Prominent Element of Business Strategy for Chief Supply Chain or Chief Procurement Officer Efforts. . Canada or Mexico. Prediction Background. Higher cost levels will need to be mitigated or reduced.

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Bristlecone Flash – February 2019

Bristlecone

It took a mere 18 weeks for Bristlecone to lead a Middle Eastern steel manufacturing client on a transformation journey that took them from manual processes to a powerful new procurement solution. BRISTLECONE AROUND THE WORLD. We go the distance. Where can Bristlecone go for you? GLOBAL LEADER. INDUSTRY INNOVATOR. TRUSTED PARTNER.

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What is the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)? Guest Post by Arun Gupta, PhD

Supply Chain View from the Field

In its current form the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a potential free trade agreement (FTA) between the US and 11 Asia-Pacific (APAC) countries (Canada, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Japan, Vietnam, Brunei, Singapore, Australia, Malaysia, and New Zealand). The United States currently has FTA’s with six (6) of the 11 TPP countries.

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Global Wide Production PMI Levels Unchanged in February 2024

Supply Chain Matters

For the first time in many months, report authors identified export order demands originating countries as being Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China, Europe, Indonesia and the United States. This index is a compilation of seven ASEAN nations- Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand , and Vietnam.

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Webinar Recap: The Case for a Pan-American Manufacturing Ecosystem

Resilinc

In the decades since, Linton and his teams at IBM, LG, Flex and other companies have driven billions in annual procurement to China and other Asian countries, helping to create the Asia-centric manufacturing supply chains of today. Now, Linton believes those supply chains must change.

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Procurement’s Role in Managing the Tariff War

NC State SCRC

Some Chinese companies went through some gyrations to re-jigger supply chains to export out of Vietnam, it is unlikely this short-term measure will work. Forward looking procurement organizations need to begin to take the time to think through how they are going to deal with these issues.