Locus

DECEMBER 1, 2021

During these unforgiving lockdowns during COVID-19, most US toy businesses either cut back on or completely halted their production. With bottlenecks in manufacturing and rising labor shortages in transporting goods, businesses struggle to counter toy shortage. As the 2021 holiday season began early, toy shopping started early.

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AFFLINK

DECEMBER 20, 2016

2016 has been an eventful year for the supply chain industry. Several product recalls have made the news, and though many stories tend to be more hype than detail, it's always worth reflecting on — and learning from — others' mistakes before gearing up for next year's supply chain planning. McDonald’s Toy Recall.

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NC State SCRC

AUGUST 24, 2019

A recent WSJ article highlighted a fact that confirms much of what we found in our study of counterfeit products in the supply chain a year ago: if you’re buying on Amazon, beware of counterfeits. Among those items, at least 2,000 listings for toys and medications lacked warnings about health risks to children.

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NC State SCRC

JULY 28, 2019

Low-cost country (LCC) sourcing is now a commonplace strategy for shrinking bottom line labor and material costs in most consumer products industries, including apparel, footwear, toys, and other manufactured products. Humans are also part of the environment.

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EcoVadis

JUNE 15, 2011

which effectively persuaded the largest toy company in the world to promise to establish a sustainable procurement policy. Mattel, who suffered from major supply chain issues in 2007 when lead was detected in their toys and who spent US $110 million on “reputation repair”, are in the spotlight once again.

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Logility

DECEMBER 4, 2017

He told me that besides his planner elves having advanced degrees in supply chain management and the latest industry certifications they regularly rotate into different roles within the North Pole supply chain organization to ensure they understand the whole Christmas Express process. A phone call was set up for later that week.

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