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Reflections, Thank-you(s) and Rethinking the Future

Supply Chain Shaman

The recent Supply Chain Insights Global Summit gave me new perspective and insights. Open Source Technologies (Examples include Hadoop, Spark, Kafka). Growth from M&A, and globalization is slowing. Global Trade is Here to Stay. In the Post World War II Economy, we experienced sixty years of global trade.

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The Changing Face of Manufacturing: How US Manufacturers are Looking Homeward

GlobalTranz

The current market trends indicate that the manufacturing industries are poised to reshore back to the United States in a big way. Unless the source of natural gas dries up, which is not likely for many years to come, the price of gas is likely to remain low for the foreseeable future. Drop in the price of crude oil.

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Looking Ahead: Ukraine Reconstruction

Enterra Insights

Megan Greene , a Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, Global Chief Economist at Kroll Institute, and the Dame Deanne Senior Fellow in International Economics at Chatham House, explains, “What is clear is Ukraine will need a lot of financial help when the fighting stops. RAND analysts, Howard J.

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Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2016

Talking Logistics

How will transportation, inventory, and sourcing policy decisions change in light of this cheap oil environment? Interest Rates : The Federal Reserve in the United States is expected to raise interest rates this week , the first increase since cutting the rate to near zero following the Great Recession in 2008.

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Behind the Numbers of the SCRC Supply Management Index

NC State SCRC

These interviews are often the best source of information and are not published. Secondary data sources are published available databases, reports, websites, and so on. Examples might be a “state of the industry” report purchased from a consulting company or a publicly available database such as the Census of U.S.

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Interoceanic Passages

Abivin

Global Maritime Routes and Chokepoints Maritime routes are a few kilometers wide corridors that connect economic regions and cross land transportation gaps. 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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New: Global Trade Map 2016

Supply Chain Movement

In collaboration with Amber Road, Supply Chain Movement has put together this Global EU Trade Map which provides an overview of current EU trade agreements and an insight into potential trade risks and how to mitigate them. What does the Global EU Trade Map show? Global Trade Map 2016. Holy See (Vatican City State).