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A True Supply Chain Transformation Requires the Proper Talent

Logistics Viewpoints

Belcorp Corporation, headquartered in Peru, manufactures cosmetics and personal care products for women in 14 nations across South and Central America. In Belcorp’s case they have four factories located in Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Ecuador. For example, go to the Walmart, turn right, and it is the third house on the left.

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Is Your Halloween Candy Responsibly Sourced?

SupplyShift

Cocoa beans grow best in hot and rainy regions hugging the equator, places like Ghana, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Ecuador, Peru and Papua New Guinea. In Indonesia, for example, large tracts of rainforest have been cut down to make room for oil palm plantations, sometimes destroying important orangutan habitats. grams per chocolate bar.

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The reality of green energy: “green metal” supply chains won’t be able to keep up

NC State SCRC

Congo is an autocracy, but so is #4 on the list: China, which is home to aluminum, copper and lithium, while Indonesia sits on mountains of nickel, and Peru holds nearly a quarter of the world’s silver. Innovation may find new substitutes or reduced requirements for these minerals. The losers? cobalt, down from 30%.

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Is Your Halloween Candy Responsibly Sourced?

SupplyShift

Cocoa beans grow best in hot and rainy regions hugging the equator, places like Ghana, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Ecuador, Peru and Papua New Guinea. In Indonesia, for example, large tracts of rainforest have been cut down to make room for oil palm plantations, sometimes destroying important orangutan habitats. grams per chocolate bar.

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Building Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

I am half-way through a spring speaking tour that will wrap-up in June with a speech in South Africa and Peru. For example, should customer sentiment data feed into quality systems? For example, in the recession of 2007, DuPont missed the downturn in the market. This work is important to me. Into warranty systems?

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This Week in Logistics News (August 13-17, 2018)

Talking Logistics

Customer Experience is Driving Supply Chain Innovation, Says Report from BluJay Solutions and Adelante SCM. One example demonstrated how TradeLens can reduce the transit time of a shipment of packaging materials to a production line in the United States by 40 percent, avoiding thousands of dollars in cost. But as the U.S.

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Navigating the Future in an Uncertain Political and Regulatory Environment

NC State SCRC

Participants also attended the Innovation Showcase in Nelson Hall,, featuring two winning supply chain teams in the undergraduate and graduate divisions! It excludes Canada, USA, Mexico, Chile, and Peru. Following this session, we all proceeded to Nelson Hall, to participate in the Innovation Showcase.