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The Fashion Supply Chain: Unraveling the Reality

Kinaxis

The idea would be to provide guidelines on responsible business practices in the supply chain and engagement practices when dealing with producing countries. It’s still not clear whether these new guidelines will be voluntary, or enforceable regulation. And it isn’t just overseas where officials are stepping in.

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Mindmap for an ethical supply chain

Supply Chain Movement

Together with Professor Christopher Tang from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Supply Chain Movement has devised this mindmap outlining the route, with road signs indicating potential hazards along the way. >>Please Much can be gained by taking a structured approach to these challenges.

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Human-machine tradeoffs in supply chain decisions (and the LA Port)

NC State SCRC

Nowhere is digital transformation needed more than the Los Angeles port, where major operational disconnects are occurring between ships, trains, and trucks. The current set of supply chain disruptions is bringing increased focus on the need for digital transformation of our supply chains.

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COVID-19 and Ukraine Conflict Global Supply Chain News Capsule March 23 2022

Supply Chain Matters

West Coast ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach throughout 2021. One of Apple ’s primary go-to contract manufacturers further indicated that production operations had resumed at the production campus in Shenzhen , under local guidelines that restrict factory workers solely to the campus until local Covid restrictions are lifted.

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Green Solutions in Trucking Industry

GTG Technology Group

In response to reports about the threats of climate change, regulatory bodies have begun thinking about guidelines for the trucking industry. According to a recent article in the Los Angeles Times, the freight system accounts for 45% of smog-forming pollution in the Golden State. Increasing Regulations.

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How to Protect Shipments from Freezing Temperatures

Freight Center

Adhering to carrier guidelines for protecting goods while in transit and over weekends. For example, if you shipped your freight from Miami to Los Angeles, it may pass through a blizzard in Denver while in transit. Labeling shipments and Bill of Ladings to easily identify freezable products. Expediting time-sensitive shipments.

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Parents Face Difficult School Choices This Fall

Enterra Insights

The AAP acknowledges that social distancing is essential to stem the spread of COVID-19; however, it also concedes, “There is a conflict between optimal academic and social/emotional learning in schools and strict adherence to current physical distancing guidelines.” Footnotes. [1] 2] Bloomberg, “ U.S.

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