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McDonald’s Mesoamérica Supply Chain Response to COVID-19

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Rafael: The main two challenges we’ve had are volume, in our case reduction, and the forecast uncertainty. So for example, Guatemala and El Salvador, they have placed partial curfews and some quite high commercial restrictions. We don’t know what’s going to happen. Do the structure, do the processes.

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Updated IT Subway Map: Major acquisitions in SC software

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El Salvador. This young, publicly listed American software vendor recently bought out Terra Technology, a specialist in demand sensing (short-term forecasting based on point-of-sale data). directly from their suppliers, from their own warehouse or even from a retail store). Congo, The Democratic Republic of The.

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3PL Subway 2015: Strategic movements among logistics providers

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El Salvador. However, Technavio’s analysts now forecast the 3PL market in Europe to grow at a CAGR of 2.87% over the period 2014-2019. Globally, warehousing is outsourced by 67%. In comparison, according to Fraunhofer Institute, warehousing is outsourced by 54% in Germany, which is the largest logistics market in Europe.