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What You Can’t See Can Hurt You – Is Your Supply Chain Really Transparent?

Logility

Shipments without origin documents are being turned away from ports, creating expensive disruptions and inventory that doesn’t reach its destination, affecting the overall supply chain and your business health. How can you ensure you are not purchasing from a supplier that had a positive audit but actually practices worker abuse?

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Demand-Driven Transformation at Shell

Supply Chain Shaman

Completed in 2012, the ERP project forced the company to standardize organizational design, roles, and metrics. Shell was no longer loading up their production facility and all of the material purchases that were going to come in based on that, with all the products that might sell based on the questionable forecast. The reason?

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Supply Chain Risk Management in 2021 and Beyond

Unleashed

Parameters for assessing risk will include purchasing volumes, scarcity, the effect on sales, ownership structures, geography, custom and excise requirements. For example, pacific countries such as New Zealand and Australia could potentially source goods from Indonesia or the Philippines. Monitor the risk. Conduct a risk analysis.

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The GMO War of Words

Enterra Insights

The war of words heated up again when “the Philippines became the world’s first country to approve the commercial production of genetically modified ‘golden rice’ that experts hope will combat childhood blindness and save lives in the developing world.”[1]. ”[1]. About 82% of corn in the US uses Bt seeds.

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5 Ways To Improve Your Import-Export Business Now

EMERGE App

Or, if you’re lucky to deal with tropical islands like Indonesia , Thailand and the Philippines , do remember the concept of island time. One good reason to use a software solution is to manage multiple currencies for your customers, suppliers, sales and financial reports. This is the currency used by your business.

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Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions for Wholesalers in 2019: Drop Those Bad Habits from 2018

EMERGE App

South-East Asian nations such as Malaysia, Vietnam, and the Philippines are ready with substitutes or alternative suppliers. You need to be able to juggle multiple currencies and generate documents in different languages. Better still, save time by having the software automatically calculate landed costs or CBM , for example.