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Start-Up Chile Helps Kick-Start Anderson Entrepreneurs - UCLA.

The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

El Mercurio (Chile - Spanish). Start-Up Chile Helps Kick-Start Anderson Entrepreneurs. Not only are there several UCLA Anderson pitch competitions on the way this spring, the first round of applications for Start-Up Chile are due. Selected participants must move to Chile for the duration of the six-month program.

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E2open’s Ocean Shipping Index Reveals Notably Improved Cross-Ocean Transit Time for Global Freight Deliveries

E2open

Key findings from the latest e2open Ocean Shipping Index include: The top ports contributing to Export Time Performance improvement when considering all global ports are Tuticorin, India; Valparaiso, Chile; Los Angeles, U.S., Vancouver, Canada, and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

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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. Gupta, Ph.D.

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Direct to Consumer – The Beginning of a Trend in FMCG

Vinculum

When it comes to countries like India, FMCG distribution networks can be a key differentiator or a strength. During the pandemic’s peak, brands were relying on a huge army of distributors, stockists and others to ensure safe distribution of their products to retailers. Direct Distribution Focus needs to Increase. Final words.

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This Week in Logistics New (May 6 – 12)

Logistics Viewpoints

A mountain of discarded clothing, including Christmas sweaters and ski boots, cuts a strange sight in Chile’s Atacama, the driest desert in the world, which is increasingly suffering from pollution created by fast fashion. Some 59,000 tons of clothing arrive each year at the Iquique port in the Alto Hospicio free zone in northern Chile.

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Unlocking Success: Testimonials from QAD Partners

QAD

We started very small with QAD just in Chile, and we have been growing in different countries and with different offices. Right now we have offices in Chile and Argentina, and from there we support other countries. And so we have been growing — almost double in sales and in people each year.

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Logistics in Latin America: A Mosaic of Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities

Talking Logistics

Ricardo gave a simple example to illustrate this point: If I am an importer in Chile — which is the best of importing worlds in Latin America, with import processes similar to those in the U.S.

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