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BD Achieves End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility

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Kevin Nelson, a chief procurement officer and senior vice president at BD, agreed to be interviewed on this topic. With revenues exceeding $20 billion annually, BD (NYSE: BDX) is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. BD is a big company with a very big supply base. But I was skeptical.

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How 2011 Prepared Us for Today

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Large trading partners included China, the United States, Australia, and South Korea. And sellers in the Japanese market, such as Australian mining companies, had to find new customers to replace those Japanese manufacturers who were forced to halt production due to the quake. Most Procurement organizations are not yet advanced.

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The Coronavirus Is Shattering Traditional Supply Chains

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A March 11 analysis by trading platform Forex.com claimed that nearly 75% of all companies had already reported supply-chain disruptions, with more than 80% believing that at some point they would experience impacts as a result of COVID-19 disruptions. Retail shops and eateries everywhere saw their business drop off precipitously.

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Samsung Electronics 2023 Financials-Weakest Profitability in a Decade

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters depicts Samsung Electronics as an industry supply chain bellwether because of the company’s unique business model as being a smartphone, consumer electronics and appliance producer, as well as a key industry-wide supplier and technology innovator. For the full year of 2023, the company reported KRW 258.94

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Forced Labour and Exploitation in Supply Chains

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million people in forced labour in private enterprises or in state-run companies. Australia, France, Switzerland, the USA (and individual states) and Mexico also have legislation in force, while the Netherlands, South Korea and New Zealand are among the countries with legislation either proposed or passed but yet to come into force.

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Report That Samsung is Eyeing Massive Semiconductor Production Presence in the U.S.

Supply Chain Matters

Samsung already has a presence in the area in what is described as the largest fab facility outside of the company’s South Korea corporate headquarters. Increased tensions among China and the U.S., the implications of the ongoing Ukraine conflict for national defense considerations, have prompted the U.S. has to do so as well.

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August 2022 Global Manufacturing Indices- Declining Momentum Accelerating

Supply Chain Matters

South Korea has now become a concern as well as that regions manufacturing activity is now at a contraction level not seen since 2020. . . South Korea. Select Regional Highlights. United States. The reported August value of 47.6 represented a 2.2 percentage point from July’s reported value.