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Lessons From the Front Line: 3 Hospitality Supply Chain Horror Stories

AFFLINK

How is the company proposing to make up for its inaccuracy in pork bearings? Xinia Camacho, reports Fusion , is a humble owner of a 20-room boutique in Venezuela. In recent years, the socialist country of Venezuela has been faced with a vanishing supply of consumer products, like toilet paper. Training, says Crumpacker.

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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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Is the “shared economy” changing logistics?

Kinaxis

by Alvaro Fernandez Did you know it costs approximately $100 to send an envelope from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, to Caracas, Venezuela? What if you don’t require the highest level of service, but still want to avoid the nightmares of dealing with national snail mail companies? (To That’s for three to five day service! New York to London?

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Revenues Sagging? Here's How to Thrive in 2016

Demand Solutions

Think Venezuela, Ecuador, and Colombia. The situation over there is so good that the company’s CEO, Jamie Dimon, was paid $27 million in fiscal 2015, an increase from the mere $20 million he made the previous year. The supply chain is a prime area most companies should look at when looking to take out cost.

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Revenues Sagging? Here's How to Thrive in 2016

Demand Solutions

Think Venezuela, Ecuador, and Colombia. The situation over there is so good that the company’s CEO, Jamie Dimon, was paid $27 million in fiscal 2015, an increase from the mere $20 million he made the previous year. The supply chain is a prime area most companies should look at when looking to take out cost.

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Doing Business in Brazil

QAD

Brazil is located in Eastern South America and borders the Atlantic Ocean as well as the countries of Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela. Brazil recently enabled organizations to file company registrations, licensing and employment notifications online.

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

Material Handling & Logistics

Companies including BP Plc, ABN Amro Group NV and Mercuria Energy Group Ltd. a San Diego fund manager that created an index to track returns of companies adopting the technology. In August, IBM said it’s working with a group of companies including Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Nestle SA, Tyson Foods Inc., Weeks to Seconds.