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Why Can’t The Supply Chain Get Rid of Abuse?

Material Handling & Logistics

Young female workers have been held captive behind the walls of garment factories in southern India. Horrific working conditions endured by children farming tobacco in North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia were reported in January of this year by Human Rights Watch. Today, seafood sold by major U.S., And the U.S.

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Can Australian Manufacturing be Brought Back Home from China?

Logistics Bureau

The costs involved, she says, include importing yarn from India, knitting it into fabric, colouring and screen printing the fabric, cut-to-trim fees to Australian seamstresses, and various overheads such as labelling, marketing, and graphic design fees. Government policy.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 8 – 14)

Logistics Viewpoints

Amazon postpones Prime Day sale in Canada and India. The expanded waiver runs through May 31 and covers Alabama, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Georgia, parts of Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. Well, it turns out this will not be a global Prime Day.

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Preparing to Work with rather than be Displaced by Artificial Intelligence

Enterra Insights

” Edgar Dias, Managing Director of ServiceNow India, writes, “Like each wave of innovation brings fear of job reduction, the fear that AI will make human effort redundant is rising. Freeland, professors at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, agree with Volpi.

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When it Comes to Direct-to-Consumer Shipping, Warehouse Size Matters

BlueYonder

According to Hayley Peterson’s Business Insider article, A Trader Joe’s competitor is opening 100 stores in the US — see if it’s coming to your hometown, Lidl will open its first 20 stores this summer in Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, with plans to open 100 stores over the next year.

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Is Your Supply Chain Prepared for War?

Enterra Insights

Recently, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin attended military exercises in the east of the country involving China and other allies such as Syria and India. Thirty years ago, a young socialist at the University of Virginia named James Davison Hunter wrote a book entitled Culture Wars. Unthinkable?