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This Week in Logistics News (April 16 – 22)

Logistics Viewpoints

In the professional women’s division, Peres Jepchirchir of Kenya and Ababel Yeshaneh of Ethiopia dropped the majority of the pack during a record-setting 11-mile stretch from mile 6-16. Ferrero tells suppliers to stop sending it palm oil from Malaysian company. The company partnered with Walgreens to make deliveries in suburban Dallas.

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Global Supply Chain News on Western Apparel Companies Increasingly Look to Africa for Sourcing, but Many Challenges Remain for the Continent

Supply Chain Digest

Monthly Wages Average Just 21 Dollars in Ethiopia Versus a Whopping 67 in Bangladesh. Plus, You Can Grow Your Own Cotton

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Health Supply Chains: Checking in with Deborah Dull

Logistics Bureau

Large international companies like Procter and Gamble typically hire financial analysts three years out of school and put them through a two-year internal supply chain program. Last July, I went to the first graduation of the first three-year program that we launched in Ethiopia.

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The Fashion Supply Chain: Unraveling the Reality

Kinaxis

A recent Wall Street Journal article reveals African nations such as Ethiopia may soon be added to that list thanks to their lack of minimum wage regulations. This represents what many feel is wrong with the industry – large companies willing to sacrifice human dignity and safety to save on their bottom line.

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The Price of a Big Mac in Denmark: Worth the wages?

Supply Chain View from the Field

Morici argues that we don’t need to raise the minimum wage for those jobs that pay minimum wage – that’ll only create more unemployment because companies with low wage jobs will just automate rather than pay the higher wage. But could that same argument be used as a basis for lifting American workers out of poverty?

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[PROFILE] Kyle Forrest '14 - Parker CMC Networking

The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

The UCLA Anderson Parker Career Management Center is comprised of Career Coaches and Executives-in-Residence, who partner with students to define, pursue and achieve their post-MBA career goals, and the Campus Recruiting Team, which cultivates relationships with companies to connect them with the right MBA talent. Parker CMC Site.

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The Future of Global Food Security

Enterra Insights

In the past half-decade, armed conflicts escalated across the world: Syria, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Nigeria, Myanmar. The private sector is pressured to follow along, especially benefitting companies that made early strategic bets on green ventures. Poverty was falling, lifespans increasing. Then suddenly, wham!

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