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What is Genuinely New in Supply Chain Management?

Logistics Viewpoints

The US Department of Labor reports that 100,000 Uyghurs and other ethnic minority ex-detainees in China may be working in conditions of forced labor following detention in re-education camps. Surprisingly, most of the goods seized did not originate in China but rather in Malaysia and Vietnam.

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Supply Chain Education on a Global Scale [podcast]

Freight Plus

Supply chain education has gone global! We'll discuss studying abroad in India, Malaysia, and the USA. Listen in this week as Manish Patwal - a graduate student from MIT's Global SCALE Network and engineer at john Deere India joins us. Work/life at John Deere in a developing nation.and the brutality of Boston winters.

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People and Halal Supply Chains

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Muslim (majority) countries in Asia (such as Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia) and several countries in the Middle East are moving to stage 3: the halal supply chain. Supermarkets have not yet been halal certified, other than just the butchery, bakery, or restaurant inside the supermarket in some big hypermarkets in Indonesia and Malaysia.

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Supply Chain Education on a Global Scale [podcast]

Freight Plus

Supply chain education has gone global! We'll discuss studying abroad in India, Malaysia, and the USA. Listen in this week as Manish Patwal - a graduate student from MIT's Global SCALE Network and engineer at john Deere India joins us. Work/life at John Deere in a developing nation.and the brutality of Boston winters.

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Are Our Agri-Food Supply Chains In Crisis?

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Some supermarket concepts in Malaysia have already integrated the processing of ‘expiring’ food products into the supermarket design, through introducing its own bakeries and restaurants located at the supermarket. He has been the architect of agri-food clusters in Indonesia and Malaysia.

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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. Education and training are critically important, and this is where the MIT SCALE Network is playing a role.

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Doing Business in Singapore

QAD

Located in southeastern Asia between Malaysia and Indonesia, Singapore is made up of a series of islands. Singapore’s workforce of 3.657 million people is technologically skilled and well-educated, but aging. billion worth of goods to countries including China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, the US, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea and Thailand.

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