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The World Today Part 1: The Best Manufacturing Ecosystems Win

Enterra Insights

Batteries are sourced from South Korea and China. For example, the F-35 fighter jet contains parts sourced from various countries including the US, UK, Italy, Netherlands, Canada, Denmark, Norway, Australia, and Turkey. Displays are provided by suppliers in South Korea and China. Memory chips and DRAM come from Japan.

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

Supply Chain View from the Field

Today’s NYT has an article about how fast food restaurants like McDonald’s and Burger King pay $20 an hour – a living wage – in Denmark. As incomes increase, perhaps then a majority of consumers will be more able and willing to pay the more expensive prices that will drive lasting changes in sourcing and production.”

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What food and beverage companies need to know about tariffs: Lessons from Canada

Kinaxis

Since January, Canadians’ weekly grocery trips have become a real-time indicator for the potential impacts of tariffs as shoppers have responded to threats with a showcase of buying power, prioritizing nationally sourced and manufactured products even before a single tariff was enacted.

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Building Profitability with Agility while Digitally Transforming the Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

From an upstream point-of-view, raw material availability, visibility, sourcing and timing will continue to be the primary areas of focus, particularly with organizations looking to mitigate any new market disruptions. From an inbound operations perspective, visibility continues to be a common thread in facilitating this convergence.

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A chat with Scott Phillips

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Global Supply Chain & Sourcing Director for ECCO Global Shoe Production & Sourcing. Whilst I am Australian born, I was fortunate to have had an educational background spanning 3 continents, Australia, Thailand/Singapore and Denmark. Consolidating the global sourcing activities is an ongoing challenge and reward.

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If You Spend a Week with a Carrier’s Driver

Talking Logistics

He moves goods for Ikea around Western Europe, and had been in Denmark most recently. is not as bad as in Europe (there isn’t a similar source of “cheap labor” drivers here — or you can argue that all drivers are equally underpaid here), but drivers in the U.S. Apparently, those audits aren’t working very well.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 15-19, 2013)

Talking Logistics

Source data is a combination of reference and benchmark data from third parties as well as econometric models and formulas. Evenex has “over 3,000 customers exchanging more than 375,000,000 documents every year and is the leading and preferred business-to-business integration provider in Denmark.”.