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This Week in Logistics News (October 8 – 14)

Logistics Viewpoints

I keep reading reports that companies such as Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy are planning to kick off massive holiday deals in late October / early November. According to a report by Adobe Analytics, tech gadgets to sporting goods will see “massive” online discounts, with the best bargains likely in late November.

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Mondelez International is Reducing Emissions in Cocoa Supply Chain

Material Handling & Logistics

Mondelez is helping to redce deforestation rates in Ghana, which supplies about 20% of the world's cocoa. In an effort to reduce emissions in its cocoa supply chain across Ghana, on January 17 Mondel?z As one of the largest cocoa-producing countries, Ghana supplies about 20% of the world's cocoa. Printer-friendly version.

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Solving The Cold Chain Challenges

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

For example, the One Network platform for supply chain planning and execution is used by the Ministries of Health in Nigeria, Ghana, and Rwanda, providing comprehensive inventory visibility across all health facilities for real time supply demand matching and collaborative decision making. Over the last 20 months alone, the U.S.

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Do You Know Your Suppliers? Counting the Cost of Ignorance

QAD

In April 2022, allegations arose claiming children as young as 10 in Ghana , West Africa were harvesting cocoa beans for food industry giant Mondel?z A 2020 KPMG analysis found that: 96% of the world’s biggest 250 companies produce an annual sustainability report. 80% of all companies worldwide report their sustainability performance.

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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. More than 12 million people are in need of humanitarian aid as a result of the civil war raging in Syria. Of those 60 million people, 19.5 million were refugees.

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Student Profile: Sue Andres-Brown ('14) - UCLA Anderson School of.

The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

News and World Report. She’s also participated in three Johnson & Johnson-sponsored UCLA Anderson Management Development Programs : the Head Start Management Fellows Program, the Health Care Executive Program and the Management Development Institute in Ghana. UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate. UCLA Anderson Speaker Series.

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From the Farmer to the Foil: The Cacao Supply Chain Challenge

SupplyShift

The vast majority of cocoa is grown by smallholder farmers , and Uncommon Cacao reports in their 2016 Transparency Report that many of these smallholder farmers live on an estimated $2 per day. Stasi Baranoff, Director of Global Ops and Sourcing, Uncommon Cacao).