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Country Risk Scores Mapped and Explained

EcoVadis

RSF calculates each country’s Freedom of the Press score based on two sources: 1) quantitative research 2) journalist survey responses. The second source, the journalist survey is completed by at least 5 journalists in every country. Six countries decreased their risk level, this includes: Honduras, Indonesia, Nepal and Ukraine.

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SCRC Meeting Themes Emphasize That Building a Supply Chain Risk Capability is a Multi-Dimensional Journey

Supply Chain View from the Field

Specifically, we have been working on a risk project with a large manufacturing partner, focused on utilizing Structured Analytical Techniques to identify sources of risk, including tools such as Alternative Competing Hypotheses, Scenario Analysis, Sensemaking Diagrams, and Bayesian modeling approaches. In his new role.

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In Chains: How to Approach Human Trafficking in your Supply Chain

Elementum

Many OEM’s use labor organizations to source laborers because it is cheaper and more efficient; however, by doing so they run the risk of employing forced laborers in the process. Often, these workers are subjected to terrible living conditions and malnourishment, with no compensation.

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Happy Diwali 2022

Enterra Insights

”[3] Inni Kaur, creative director at the Sikh Research Institute, told Shen, Sikhs celebrate Diwali in memory of their sixth Guru, Guru Hargobind, who serves as a source of inspiration and a symbol for freedom. It is observed by the Vajrayana Buddhist minority among the Newar people of Nepal. ”[4].

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Ethics in Procurement – Simple, but Not Always Easy

Logistics Bureau

Illegal sourcing: Suppliers offer goods or services misrepresented or produced illegally or immorally, whether because of materials used (such as the substitution of horsemeat for beef) or the labour conditions in which production takes place (notably in the garment industry). This may or may not be accompanied by a menace.

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Good-bye siloed, functional planner. Hello storm chasing network planner.

Kinaxis

2015 – Nepal earthquake, 7.8 They may be too busy looking at constraint challenges or alternate sources of supply. It would be easy to talk climate change and the causes behind them but that would be irrelevant to this discussion. Let’s just look at some events: 2017 – Hurricane Irma (plus others).

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Five Lessons Learned in 2020 – and Where to Go from Here

Bristlecone

Nations and business leaders are realizing there must be an avenue for the basics to be sourced and produced within their own geographical reach. . For example, consider sourcing only commoditized items globally, and essential items and critical supplies closer to home.