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An Observation on Corporate and Societal Resiliency and the Strength of the Human Spirit

Enterra Insights

Last night, I returned home from Warsaw, Poland after a weeklong business trip in Europe. During my first trip 5 weeks ago, the initial shock of the aggression and its repercussions on the global economy, inflation, and supply chains were the focus of both business and casual conversations. Footnotes. [1]

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The Supply Chain Impact of Europe’s Refugee Crisis

Kinaxis

According to a recent UNHCR report , nearly 60 million people were forcibly displaced in 2014 from countries such as Iraq, Eritrea, and Afghanistan. A crisis of this magnitude creates a mind-boggling supply chain and logistics challenge. Of those 60 million people, 19.5 million were refugees.

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Doing Business in Turkey

QAD

The country is located in southeastern Europe and southwestern Asia. Supply Chain Infrastructure for Manufacturing. Its primary export partners were Germany, the UK, the UAE, Iraq, the US, Italy, France and Spain. QAD Adaptive ERP can be a crucial tool to help companies evolve as regulations change.

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Different Strokes for Different Folks (to Yield Better Results?)?

Supply Chain Shaman

This week I spent time in Silicon Valley talking to technology innovators. Disruption in supply chain planning is happening. We are on a path to reinvent decision-support technologies like supply chain planning. ” The barrier for new technology adoption is us. The third act is starting.

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Quality Improvement in Manufacturing: Relief for Operations Manager

ThroughPut

For Europe, operations are now resuming from the extended production breaks. We are privileged to be tackling problems from the biggest canals to supply chains that extend to Mars. Maybe that’s where technology disruption’s bottleneck currently lies. Fall has begun. It’s an incredible period for the company.

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Why Operations Managers & Entrepreneurs are fighting the same battles

ThroughPut

For Europe, operations are now resuming from the extended production breaks. We are privileged to be tackling problems from the biggest canals to supply chains that extend to Mars. Maybe that’s where technology disruption’s bottleneck currently lies. Fall has begun. It’s an incredible period for the company.

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Interoceanic Passages

Abivin

These routes are typically found connecting important marketplaces with active commercial trade systems, such as Western Europe, North America, and East Asia. In the current global economy, the closure of a maritime chokepoint would have significant economic ramifications due to the disruption of trade flows and even some supply chains (e.g.

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