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Doing Business in Portugal

QAD

With 1,793 km of coastline, Portugal has a long history as a seafaring country and once had colonies all over the world. Its capital city, Lisbon, was almost completely destroyed in an earthquake in 1755, and later, Portugal endured years of revolution and occupation before democratic reforms were put in place in 1974.

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

NC State SCRC

I decided I didn’t like being the dumbest person in the room about every type of fabric, so I decided to focus on the jeans industry. Most of the garment industry at the time was sort of “old fashioned”, a bit rude and unpleasant, but the jeans industry in the 60s and 70s had Levis, which was a fun company, and was growing like crazy.

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Resilinc’s Q1 2023 Supply Chain Disruption Data

Resilinc

Resilinc’s 24/7 risk monitoring platform EventWatch AI reported 3,821 total disruptions and alerts across all industries and risk events monitored by Resilinc: up 8% QoQ. Labor and Transportation Disruptions are Up Resilinc data shows labor disruptions were up 107% year-over-year.

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Doing Business in Spain

QAD

Bordering countries include Andorra, France, Gibraltar, Portugal and Morocco. Industrial production is growing at about 4% annually as of 2017. Industry accounts for 23.2% Other Important Industries. The supply chain infrastructure in Spain is strong due to its robust transportation and communications systems.

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Introducing QAD Adaptive ERP 2023 and Enhancements for QAD Adaptive Applications

QAD

Updates in the past few months address new requirements for Brazil, India, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, United States and other global regions. QAD Global Trade & Transportation Execution (GTTE) adds integration capabilities with QAD SRM to boost efficiency and cost of ownership.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 24-28, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Hunt Transport Services, Inc. In the quest to transform and disrupt the logistics industry, you will have some winners and you will have a lot more losers. I’ll just repeat what I’ve said many times before: These startups are forcing entrenched players in the logistics industry to “up their game” with regards to technology.

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Inditex Achieves Added Business and Supply Network Accomplishments

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters has often highlighted Inditex’s ongoing business performance not only in supply chain innovation but also in overcoming industry challenges in good times and not so good. Many supply chain management case study curriculums include the notions of how this retail chain pioneered what is today termed “ fast fashion.”.