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It wouldn’t be Valentine’s Day without Logistics

Enterra Insights

Cupid gets the credit for the holiday, but really Valentine’s Day is the work of logistics and supply chain.” The Flower Supply Chain. ” The Candy Supply Chain. billion is spent on sparkling wine (174,000 gallons are sold during the holiday week alone). Footnotes. [1] Footnotes. [1]

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Valentine’s Day 2019

Enterra Insights

Valentine’s Day and the supply chain. The 150 million cards, 100 million flowers, and hundreds of millions of pounds of chocolate given as gifts on Valentine’s Day wouldn’t be possible without the supply chain. .” Her article features several fun examples of the donated cards.

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Hurricane Harvey & Irma's Threat on the Product Economy

Elementum

According to the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency’s estimate, 90% of Anguilla’s power infrastructure was damaged, 90% of government buildings damaged, and that the island suffered “significant damage to [its] main water supply. ”. Widespread damages were also reported in Turks and Caicos Islands and US Virgin Islands.

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Why Counterfeiting Is So Dangerous

Shipchain

It’s a huge issue in shipping and logistics, but it certainly doesn’t stop there. Additionally, Rolling Stone reports that tainted alcohol is also suspected to be behind the tourist deaths in the Dominican Republic that have yet to be explained. Fake handbags, knock-off sunglasses, inauthentic sneakers, and so on.

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Investing in regional supply chains

Resilinc

In a June 2021 Harvard Business Review article and in this blog , Resilinc CEO Bindiya Vakil and her co-authors Tom Linton and Dale Rogers argued that more robust and sophisticated Pan-American supply networks are critical destinations on the roadmap to drive greater resilience, sustainability and agility in U.S. supply chains.

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Download now: 3PL Subway Map Europe 2016

Supply Chain Movement

these are the main conclusions from Supply Chain Movement’s annual study as the basis for the 3pl subway map europe 2016, which shows the specific services of the most important logistics service providers. Congo, The Democratic Republic of The. Czech Republic. Dominican Republic. By Martijn Lofvers. >>Please

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Strategic moves among logistics providers

Supply Chain Movement

these are the main conclusions from Supply Chain Movement’s annual study as the basis for the 3pl subway map europe 2016, which shows the specific services of the most important logistics service providers. Congo, The Democratic Republic of The. Czech Republic. Dominican Republic. By Martijn Lofvers. >>Please