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

The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

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. November 2013. October 2013. Financial Times.

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Panama Canal Drought: Lower Water Levels, Higher Supply Chain Risk

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Restrictions in the Panama Canal have affected over 170 countries and virtually every good: soybeans and liquified natural gas from the United States, copper and fresh cherries from Chile, and beef from Brazil. If any of the five major waterways are disrupted, it could significantly impact the global supply chain.

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8 Inventory Costing Methods That You Might Not Know About

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Inventory costing or valuation is an accounting concept that has a direct impact on your gross profit and thus taxable income. Methods of valuing inventory are simply different cost-flow assumptions about how to allocate your cost of goods available for sale. We’ll start by explaining why inventory costing is important.

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Embracing the South American Ecommerce Marketplace

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Online retailers in South America have been struggling for years to overcome several obstacles to success, including extensive customs delays, poor transportation infrastructure, and the lack of end-to-end supply chain visibility. As a result, inventory builds up, costs rise, and customers wait longer for their products to arrive.

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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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Mission: Maximize Learning on Multichannel Retailing & E-Commerce

Supply Chain Network

How do you optimize a common pool of inventory, store pick up, and scale to compete in the eComm world? Multichannel Roundtable & Strategy Panel – Susan Kleinman, Senior Director, Comscore; Brent Beabout, Senior Vice President, Supply Chain,Office Depot, Inc.; Possible topics include: • Multichannel Research.

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Top 20 Verified Supply Chain Experts You Can Hire

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Effective supply chain management is essential for success in the dynamism and connectivity of modern companies. To accomplish this, you require the skills of supply chain experts who can manage the complexity and difficulties of today’s global supply chains. They come from a variety of backgrounds.