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Malaysia a Key Link in Asia’s Disaster Resilience Plan

MIT Supply Chain

This was one of the main talking points at the 2013 Health & Humanitarian Logistics Conference, hosted by the Malaysia Institute for Supply Chain Innovation (MISI) in Malaysia this June. He moderated the Capacity Building for Resilience panel at the June conference that discussed the challenge.

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Is TPPA going to ground e-commerce or let it fly (ideally, as air freight)?

DELMIA Quintiq

This would mean that a consumer in Malaysia buying from Amazon in the US would not experience significant differences in pricing of the same product bought from an online store in Malaysia or neighboring Singapore. Join me at the Payload Asia conference taking place in Singapore this October and 14.

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Driving Sustainable Growth Through Supply Chain Resilience

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Every industry sector and every business across the board, in APAC and around the globe have been impacted by the Great Supply Chain Disruption over the last two years, causing a blow out of transportation costs and continuous delays at every stage of the channel. Just take a look at what’s been happening over the last 3-4 months.

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The Cost of Climate Change on Your Supply Chain

Kinaxis

by Alexa Cheater On the heels of the United Nations Paris Climate Change Conference , now seemed like an appropriate time to revisit an often talked about supply chain topic. The same can be true for evaluating different transportation options. The impact of climate change on your supply chain operations. Natural Disasters.

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What is the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)? Guest Post by Arun Gupta, PhD

Supply Chain View from the Field

Arun Gupta recently went to a conference of the TPP in Washington, and was invited to share some insights on his visit and what he learned in a guest blog. The United States currently has FTA’s with six (6) of the 11 TPP countries.

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What’s New in 2015 for the supply chain world? See 2014?s predictions.

Supply Chain View from the Field

With Amazon and others going to same day deliveries, the e-commerce boom is making transportation and delivery infrastructure more difficult to navigate. As Companies Expand Globally, So Will the Level of Operational Complexity. No surprise here – many, many complexities continue to arise.

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What Kind of Visibility Into Your Supply Chain Do You Really Need, and How Do You Get It?

Oracle SCM

Cushing has been an invited blogger at conferences sponsored by CFO Magazine and Supply Chain Insights and writes regularly for RKL eSolutions and more. Most companies weren't buying from China or Taiwan or Malaysia like they are today. Richard Cushing is principal/consultant for Cushing & Associates.