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The Global Trade Compliance Market is Crazy!

Logistics Viewpoints

In April of 2022, British American Tobacco, headquartered in the UK, agreed to pay $508 million in fines for selling their products to North Korea. This type of analysis is standard operating procedure in the Auto industry; other industries have been too slow to adopt this advanced functionality. Treasury Department.

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Economic Aspects of Supply Chains

American Global Logistics

They encompass a vast ecosystem of industries and sectors that work together to deliver the right products at the right time, place, cost, quantity, and quality. business logistics amounts to 9.1% business logistics reflects the highest percentage of GDP in history. Digital supply chains have improved the industry performance.

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What Supply Chain Risks Must Supply Chain Execs Keep Top of Mind?

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Also, risks can range from working with entities outside of a given company, such as third-party logistics providers ( 3PLs ), to changes in the expected movements of a product, otherwise known as scope change risks. Another risk in today’s supply chains is directly related to workers, explains Supply Chain Dive. In the short-term future.

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Sorry, I’m Not Sure: Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2018

Talking Logistics

I will be wrong again,” I stated last year before making my supply chain and logistics predictions for 2017 , and I was right. But I was right with some of my other predictions, especially my prediction that we would see a rise in cyber attacks in 2017, with supply chain and logistics operations becoming new targets.

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I Will Be Wrong Again: Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2017

Talking Logistics

This is not only true for financial investments, but also for supply chain and logistics predictions. Like I said last year, making supply chain and logistics predictions is like throwing darts at a moving target: sometimes you get lucky and hit the mark; other times you miss the bullseye by a mile. Photo By: MAJ Aaron Haney.

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Thoughts on Supply Chain Impacts (After Listening to Trump’s State of the Union)

NC State SCRC

And this is already in an environment where there is a massive shortage of logistics workers and truck drivers ! Trump didn’t provide a whole lot of details on what he meant by a “good deal”…you can read about it in his book I guess… The narrative on the pharmaceutical industry was also odd.