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Doing Business in Belgium

QAD

Belgium is bordered by France, Germany, Luxembourg and Netherlands, and has a robust shipping infrastructure including multiple ports, making it a perfect location for trade both within the EU and with other geographic regions. billion metric tons of goods in 2015. Germany accounts for 16 percent of Belgium’s exports; France for 14.9

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The Ultimate Guide to Contract Logistics: What You Need to Know

SCMDOJO

It boasts excellent infrastructure, including well-connected harbors, well-educated people, and multilingual capabilities, making it an international logistics hotspot. Additionally, its strategic location in proximity to Germany, France, and the UK adds to its appeal.

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Cliff Morris | The State of Manufacturing

4WL Consulting

Cliff is an international executive with thirty years of doing business on a global basis, including five years as an expat in Paris, France. I know you were, you know, you mentioned you were an expat in France. And they’ve got strict, you know, strict metrics that they’re working against. Cliff: Right. Mike: Right.

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Cliff Morris | The State of Manufacturing

4WL Consulting

Cliff is an international executive with thirty years of doing business on a global basis, including five years as an expat in Paris, France. I know you were, you know, you mentioned you were an expat in France. And they’ve got strict, you know, strict metrics that they’re working against. Cliff: Right. Mike: Right.

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Roundtable Series: Scaling in a Compromised Supply Chain

Unleashed

For Mara Seaweed, which makes salt substitutes from seaweed, Daniel says there is still work to do on customer education and R&D as the company establishes itself, as well as capital investment to facilitate planned growth. But of course, if you don’t have supply, then those sales just collapse.”

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CSR Leaders Work With UNGC To Drive Corporate Attention On Supply Chain Sustainability

EcoVadis

Today, a lot of procurement departments are still focused heavily on (and rewarded for) the traditional procurement metrics of cost, quality, on-time delivery. While you could easily add “sustainability” as a new metric to the list, without internal capacity building, this may lead to confusion, misunderstanding, and may fail to reduce risks.

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A Global Push for R&D

Synovos

The index looked at several metrics, such as: the environment for innovation, education policies, and labor policies. South Korea tops the list followed by Germany, Singapore, Japan, Canada, Estonia, France, the UK and the U.S. (See What Countries are Most Ready for Robots and AI? ). The findings?