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What is Supply Chain Visibility and Why Isn’t It Enough?

Logistics Viewpoints

This example illustrates why supply chain visibility isn’t enough. Because we call it a supply chain for a reason – each link is connected, so if you rattle one link, you rattle the entire chain, as Boeing famously discovered in 2007 when a bolts and screws shortage delayed their Dreamliner. Why transparency is better than visibility.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] Attracting Millennials to Manufacturing: Understanding Millennial Experience in Order to Gain Talent

GlobalTranz

Millennials have witnessed countless layoffs, periods of market instability, offshoring of manufacturing entities , and other significant events in their lives. Unfortunately, these events lead to one common issue: millennials do not view the manufacturing industry as previous generations did. Economic Instability.

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Ethics in Procurement – Simple, but Not Always Easy

Logistics Bureau

How procurement handles itself and its activities set the tone for all the events that follow, right up to the final delivery of goods and services to the end-customer. For example, how would you deal with the following situations in procurement? Read on for more about these examples in the text that follows.

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NAFTA's New Trade Highs.Are You Suprised?

Blog on Log

billion in March 2007, the highest monthly level ever recorded. surface transportation trade with Canada and Mexico jumped 97 percent from March 1997 to March 2007, with imports growing 110.4 In April, the most recent month for which statistics are available, U.S.-NAFTA NAFTA trade tallied a solid $65 billion, 5.3 The value of U.S.

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The Changing Face of Supply Chain Security

Logistics Bureau

Examples are pre-hiring and background checks. Goods origination, third-party security, foreign customs are examples. Examples are ERP for manufacturing, CRM for sales and operations, and TMS for transport management. Examples are tainted goods being carried to or substituted in retail outlets. Business partner.

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COVID-19 and the 5 major threats it poses to global food security

World Food Programme Logistics

For example, it is believed that the survival rate of patients suffering from Ebola was affected by what healthcare workers call “preceding nutritional status” or the baseline nutritional health of people affected by the virus. With their general population suffering from malnutrition, it would be much, much worse than China.”

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Current State of the Capacity Crunch

GlobalTranz

Since 2007, the Panama Canal has been under construction to allow larger ships to pass through the gates, which will bring a huge shift in the amount of ocean freight being delivered to both sides of the country, asserts JOC.com Staff. Expansion of the Panama Canal Will Increase Incoming Ocean Freight.