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How Many Slaves Are in Your Supply Chain?

Talking Logistics

As part of the law, companies must (among other things): Conduct audits of suppliers to evaluate supplier compliance with company standards for trafficking and slavery in supply chains. Companies are also starting to take action — albeit, reactively in many cases. It’s a question many companies can’t answer today.

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Blockchain Points Way to `Massive Change' for Commodity Supply Chain

Material Handling & Logistics

In most food-supply chains it might take weeks to figure out where it went from source to destination, and in some cases, the source may not be known, but on a blockchain, it takes just seconds. Companies including BP Plc, ABN Amro Group NV and Mercuria Energy Group Ltd. Nestle SA, Tyson Foods Inc., Nestle SA, Tyson Foods Inc.,

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Global Momentum in ‘Conflict Minerals’ Transparency?

EcoVadis

disclosure requirements , publicly listed companies in the U.S. As shown in the last Enough Project’s Conflict Minerals Company Rankings, some companies in the electronics sector are making progress in eliminating conflict minerals from their supply chains. Indonesia , Venezuela ). While the S.E.C and Canada. and Canada.

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How the Bakken Oil Boom Impacts U.S. Supply Chains

CH Robinson Transportfolio

For those of us in neighboring states, North Dakota is the source of a clichéd “giant sucking sound,” the likes of which this generation has never experienced. Companies that never had orders to North Dakota now have consistent lanes, regardless of product. And it has all happened incredibly quickly.

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Podcast: Roberto Reichard on Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Capital Projects

Requis

Roberto Reichard is a capital projects development executive who has led some of the biggest onshore and offshore projects for energy companies around the world. I joined up with a company called Schlumberger , who provides oilfield services around the world. I had the opportunity to work in Turkey, Egypt and in Venezuela.

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E2open’s 22.4 Technology Update Deepens Network Coverage Across All Supply Chain Ecosystems to Minimize Disruption Risks

E2open

Companies on e2open’s connected platform can make more accurate, efficient, and autonomous decisions and improve execution for operations spanning channel, planning, logistics, global trade, and supply. Channel partners visit multiple sources to build a complete view of sales leads, which is a time-consuming and inefficient process.

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Export Compliance 101

Arena Solutions

For some companies, that could be a door closer. Now, those last two, the MEU and the MIEU list, only pertain to Venezuela, Russia, and China. It is a release or exposure to technology or software source code to a foreign national, a non-U.S. And then finally, the CEO of the company was led out of the building in handcuffs.