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New: Global Trade Map 2016

Supply Chain Movement

Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) and Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) are designed to boost economic growth through trade by opening markets by way of progressive removal of customs duties, eliminating or reducing trade barriers and tariffs, lifting restrictions on services and even through public procurement. Turks and Caicos Islands.

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E2open’s 22.4 Technology Update Deepens Network Coverage Across All Supply Chain Ecosystems to Minimize Disruption Risks

E2open

This eliminates the need for manual interaction during procurement, increases RFP response rate percentages, and expands access to contract rates for shippers. Shippers can easily discover new carriers and include them in future contract bidding events via integrated automated workflows in the transportation management system (TMS).

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Podcast: Roberto Reichard on Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Capital Projects

Requis

I had the opportunity to work in Turkey, Egypt and in Venezuela. Sustainability should impact procurement choices, such as favoring lower embodied carbon products over higher embodied carbon products. Safety and quality became key buying factors during procurement. I then decided to go back to school.

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How Many Slaves Are in Your Supply Chain?

Talking Logistics

The company is also stopping production in Ecuador, Venezuela, Belarus and Pakistan by April 2014 (these countries scored low in a World Bank report that assessed countries on accountability, corruption, violence, and other metrics).

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Trump’s April Tariffs – Rundown, Implications and Freight Impact

Freightos

The newly announced tariffs join steel and aluminum tariffs, a 25% tariff on all automotive imports, and a 25% tariff on any country that purchases oil from Venezuela already in effect though only the Venezuelan tariff will be stacked on top of global or reciprocal tariffs.

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Why Is It So Hard to Find Good Help These Days?

Material Handling & Logistics

Omni-channel begat sharing sourcing, procurement, allocation, deployment, inventory, and yes in many cases, distribution. For the most part organizations quickly got together on the sourcing, procurement, allocation and deployment. The result was companies realized they needed to work together as one with omni-channel.