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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. Its latest constitution was adopted in 1982. Agriculture makes up 6.8% of the workforce. Taxes equal 20.3%

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

Supply Chain Shaman

Disruption in supply chain planning is happening. We are on a path to reinvent decision-support technologies like supply chain planning. They are often supply chain superheroes. I think that we can reduce 80% of planners in global supply chain organizations and drive better answers.

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Why Operations Managers & Entrepreneurs are fighting the same battles

ThroughPut

For Europe, it is almost time to resume activities from the extended production breaks. We are privileged to be tackling problems from the biggest canals to supply chains that extend to Mars. Trips to places like Iraq made me realize how little people had, and how 90% of the world was in that state. Summer is almost over.

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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. Trips to places like Iraq during 2015 made me realize how little people had, and how 90% of the world was in that state. Fall has begun.

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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. Trips to places like Iraq during 2015 made me realize how little people had, and how 90% of the world was in that state. Fall has begun.