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The Global Trade Compliance Market is Crazy!

Logistics Viewpoints

Thomson Reuters purchased the global trade compliance vendor Integration Point in 2018. In April of 2022, British American Tobacco, headquartered in the UK, agreed to pay $508 million in fines for selling their products to North Korea. Secondly, one core supply chain application is a transportation management system.

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Forced Labor in Seafood Supply Chains

EcoVadis

The amount of ocean products consumers can purchase from grocery stores and restaurants is bountiful and varied. Numerous 2015 media reports exposed slave conditions in the Thai fishing sector. Introduction. Shrimp tacos. Blackened catfish. Grilled mahi-mahi. Salmon burgers. Background. The revelations forced the U.S.

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I Will Be Wrong Again: Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2017

Talking Logistics

Other examples: The United States Postal Service (USPS) published a report in May titled Blockchain Technology: Possibilities for the U.S. Postal Service , with supply chain management as one of the focus areas; in October, as reported by Reuters, “IBM, U.S. Toyota temporarily shut two factories in the aftermath.