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What is the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)? Guest Post by Arun Gupta, PhD

Supply Chain View from the Field

In its current form the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a potential free trade agreement (FTA) between the US and 11 Asia-Pacific (APAC) countries (Canada, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Japan, Vietnam, Brunei, Singapore, Australia, Malaysia, and New Zealand). Be on the lookout for more information on TPP on this blog. Gupta, Ph.D.

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Talking Turkey for Thanksgiving

Enterra Insights

If you must travel, be informed of the risks involved.”[2] This requires contracts, transportation, and deliveries from both large-scale turkey producers (think the Butterballs, Jennie-Os, and Perdues of the world) as well as local turkey farms. Travel increases the chance of getting and spreading the virus that causes COVID-19.

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Go Horizontal!

Supply Chain Shaman

I did not understand warehousing and transportation until reassignment to a logistics role in 1985. Note in the maturity model, that the most mature companies use network design technologies to inform and refine horizontal processes. Typing this quickly in the Atlanta airport as I run for a plane for Lima, Peru.

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Embracing the South American Ecommerce Marketplace

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Online retailers in South America have been struggling for years to overcome several obstacles to success, including extensive customs delays, poor transportation infrastructure, and the lack of end-to-end supply chain visibility. While surface transportation remains stagnant, ocean freight shows promise. A diamond in the rough .

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Building Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

I am half-way through a spring speaking tour that will wrap-up in June with a speech in South Africa and Peru. As you map the your outside-in processes, think about demand, product, information flows and cash flows simultaneously. Explore how you can capture, harmonize and analyze this data to inform upstream processes.

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6 Answers for Your Top TPP Agreement Questions

CH Robinson Transportfolio

While we’re still sorting through the full text, we wanted to provide you with some background, answer some questions, and offer some insight about what the TPP agreement means for the transportation and logistics industry. Where can I get more information? What is the TPP agreement? What are your thoughts on the TPP agreement?

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This Week in Logistics News (August 13-17, 2018)

Talking Logistics

During the 12-month trial, Maersk and IBM worked with dozens of ecosystem partners to identify opportunities to prevent delays caused by documentation errors, information delays, and other impediments. New Transportation Solutions from project44 and Kuebix. Will their networks become blockchain-based too? Questions for another day.