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Baltimore Bridge Collapse: An Opportunity to Reinforce the Importance of Supply Chain Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

An agile supply chain has dynamic and adaptive capabilities, such as information, communication, coordination, and collaboration, that enable it to sense, analyze, and act on disruptions. The port serves as a gateway for exporting coal to Europe, Asia, and South America, as well as importing coal from Canada and Colombia.

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What You Can’t See Can Hurt You – Is Your Supply Chain Really Transparent?

Logility

Consumers are demanding greater transparency and want more information about worker treatment in the supply chain. . In particular, consumers want information about worker treatment in the supply chain and want to know what sellers are doing to improve working conditions. Key Takeaways. Consumers are demanding greater transparency.

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Software unleashes inventory solution for liqueur manufacturer

Unleashed

The product itself is cold-brew, pressed coffee using speciality lot Arabica beans from Colombia and Kenya blended with high-quality grain spirit to make the final product that you see today.”. Unleashed does that and keeps track of inventory down to batch and unit of measure with ease.”.

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Embracing the South American Ecommerce Marketplace

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Having the right information is the first step to wading through the muck and mire of this complicated ecommerce marketplace: South America customs vary by country. As a result, inventory builds up, costs rise, and customers wait longer for their products to arrive. consumer and industrial imports into Colombia.

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How to Learn About Supply Chain Research From Around the World in a Few Hours

MIT Supply Chain

These are: the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (Cambridge, USA), the Zaragoza Logistics Center (Zaragoza, Spain), the Center for Latin-American Logistics Innovation (Bogotá, Colombia), and the Malaysia Institute for Supply Chain Innovation (Shah Alam, Malaysia). Obtain more information and register here.

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Earth Day spotlight: What it means to be a Benefit Corporation in CPG

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“I would estimate that it took us around 100 hours, or two weeks, to work cross-collaboratively and compile the information.” These projects for instance include supporting schools in Nicaragua, leading reforestation efforts in Colombia and supporting communities of women in Rwanda.

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CIPLAS Grows and Scales with QAD for 25 Years

QAD

As the Bogotá, Colombia based company grew, management was in search of a more centralized enterprise solution for information management. Managing and processing information with a user-friendly solution was the goal of CIPLAS as it initially implemented QAD ERP. An Enterprise Solution that Grows with the Enterprise.