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5 Steps to Address the Rising Geopolitical Risks to Your Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

Shift in the centers of gravity of the demand: As of the beginning of April 2022, about four million Ukrainians have left the country for neighboring countries such as Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Hungary and Moldova. In addition, these changes should be communicated to the planning and execution systems in the form of rules and assumptions.

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Risk Management in Global Ocean Context

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The areas that will be deliberated in future articles are ocean shipping market landscape, freight procurement, reliability & visibility and the competitive landscape. We can observe this quite clearly in the growth experienced in countries like Vietnam, India as well as Hungary and Mexico.

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ERP Sustains Manufacturing during COVID-19

IQMS

For companies with a DELMIAworks ERP system in place, the shift to front office personnel working from home, driven by COVID-19 prevention measures, has not caused major business disruptions. Their front-office teams are able to access their ERP system at home and run the business from there. A good example is Mar-Bal Inc.,

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Blockchain and the Law of Unintended Consequences

Enterra Insights

… The current systems for providing and recording this data — reliant on EDIs and APIs — are subject to misinterpretation or manipulation, which can have dire consequences on the global supply chain. “Cargo Volume often defines the cost of shipping freight. Increased Efficiency. ” 3. . ”[4].

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Supply Chain Leadership Series III: Andrew Olah – Changing the Denim Industry One Brand at a Time

NC State SCRC

was started by his father, who was a refugee from Hungary in 1956 He moved to Toronto, Canada, and met another individual from Czechoslovakia, and the two formed a partnership to create a textile agency. “So with the above in mind we thought about how a movie review system could help our supply partners.