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The Green Corridor: Resilience from Diversification

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

I recently came back from vacation in Malawi a land-locked country of 19 million that surrounds Lake Malawi. Like many countries today, Malawi struggles to provide basic services to a large number of its people. Where Malawi sits 13 degrees south of the equator, Thailand sits 15 degrees north.

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5 tips and tools for collaborative working while remote

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We are often enabling a business to bring data together from across their supply chain, often not a local endeavour. Global supply chains provide a challenging environment for coordinating meetings, often involving participation from multiple businesses across continents and timezones.

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Fixing supply chain inefficiencies: what we did and why it’s hard

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We launched this with the mission to unlock the financial incentives that reward sustainability in supply chains. Since 90% of your business’s impact happens in your supply chain ( McKinsey, 2016 ), addressing how to improve this has the potential to be massive. However, supply chains are opaque by design. .

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5 lessons from leading a blockchain social innovation project

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For any big innovation project, you need leaders with big visions, open minds to relatively untested technologies (such as blockchain) and a passion –in this case, around sustainability. Their significant role in supply chains. People like me then had to work out the ‘how’.

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4 Technology Trends Set to Transform Your eCommerce Business

Vinculum

Thanks to the unprecedented distribution of the Internet and evolution of technology for making this successful over the World Wide Web. Tech-trend #1 – AI Powered Supply Chain Management. Robotics has been one of the trendy technology topics in ecommerce and retailing the last few years. The Changing Landscape.

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S.E.C. Approval of Conflict Minerals Rules: a landmark in supply chain disclosure requirements

EcoVadis

Countries covered by the new rules in addition to the DRC include South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Angola, the Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic. Last but not least the final rule exempts any conflict minerals that are “outside the supply chain” prior to January 31, 2013.

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Updated IT Subway Map: Major acquisitions in SC software

Supply Chain Movement

The supply chain software industry is in a considerable state of flux. furthermore, because the continuing growth in outsourcing is making global businesses ever-more susceptible to disruptions, supply chain risk management software is also on the rise. By Martijn Lofvers. >>Please Liechtenstein.