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Conflict Worsens Global Food Insecurity

Enterra Insights

Considering that the world’s population is increasing by one billion people every 11 to 12 years, losing any source of food is big problem. Al-Assad deliberately used starvation as a military tactic in Syria’s on-going civil war. They have great potential to contribute more to well-functioning, sustainable food systems.”

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Top 10 TikTokers to Take Off your Supply Chain

SCMDOJO

Eric masterfully elucidates how AI augments ERP systems, revolutionizing data-driven decision-making within supply chains. Beyond being an information source, the account’s engaging content fosters a platform for professionals to collaborate, exchange ideas, and drive industry innovation.

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Top 10 Most Corrupt Countries of 2018

Material Handling & Logistics

Over the last six years, several countries significantly improved their CPI score, including Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal and the United Kingdom, while several countries declined, including Syria, Yemen and Australia. Syria, South Sudan and Somalia rank lowest with scores of 14, 12 and 9 respectively. Source : Human Rights Watch.

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Polycrisis, Antifragility, and What’s Missing from Digital Transformation

Logistics Viewpoints

And the true secret sauce to excellence is to fold in systems thinking and organizational learning. I’m sure of this: achieving antifragility in a time of polycrisis cannot be done with outdated, manual systems and processes. A McKinsey study found that 90% of supply chain leaders expected to transform their planning systems.

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Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2016

Talking Logistics

How will transportation, inventory, and sourcing policy decisions change in light of this cheap oil environment? Terrorism : The recent terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, coupled with the ongoing instability in Syria and Iraq and the spread of ISIS, have raised the risk for terrorism-related supply chain disruptions in 2016.

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Export Compliance 101

Arena Solutions

person, if I’m driving through Switzerland and my rental car is running out of gas, I have to drive past the gas stations that are owned by Syria. There are different systems, different ways of identifying the classification, but in export control terms, you don’t know what you’re exporting until you have it classified.

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10 Things to Consider in the Global Economy

NC State SCRC

What is remarkable is that 53% come from Somalia, Syria, and Afghanistan. As we take a look at imports/exports, and environment uncertainty it is likely that supply chain designs will move more towards more local sourcing, driven not only by total cost of ownership, but even more so by global risk mitigation.

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