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Philippines: World Food Programme amps up Government’s response as coronavirus bites

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this is a region in southern Philippines where, since 2006, WFP has been present supporting the peace process. It also offered the use of its remote monitoring tools and assessments to gather information on the impacts of COVID-19 on the food security and essential needs of Filipinos under quarantine.

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Now is Not the Time to Worry About Freight Rates

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percent year-over-year (YOY), being the sharpest increase seen since February 2006, based on the latest figures from Cass Information Systems. Driver detention is a top concern for truckers finds a 2020 Workhound survey. FREIGHT MARKET OUTLOOK. Freight rates have jumped 26.6

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C-TPAT Survey - Be careful what you ask for.

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C-TPAT survey gives members chance to sound off Are companies who participate in the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism really achieving tangible efficiencies by partnering with the U.S. CBP turned to the University of Virginia to help design and conduct the survey. government to secure their international supply chains?

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Two Million Vacant Manufacturing Jobs by 2025…How Can We Tackle the Skills Gap?

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This estimate is according to responses provided by 83 percent of the manufacturing executives who participated in a survey conducted as part of an industry study by the Manufacturing Institute and Deloitte Consulting LLP. Skills Shortages. skilled production workers. researchers. machinists. scientists.

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Aptiv takes a global approach to mobility

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Underpinning this approach will be a global transport management system (TMS), which Richards is responsible for implementing, as well as developing an enterprise visibility tool with predictive analytics for freight movements around the world. “We There are similar worries in both the inbound and outbound sector in Europe.

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MIT’s Sheffi on Supply Chain Sustainability

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. Sheffi starts, for example, with the extreme pressures coming from non-governmental organizations (NGOs), notably Greenpeace, about which one environmentalist says “When Greenpeace reaches for its toolbox, it tends to find only one tool, and that’s a mallet.” Marketing Director, Inovity.

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Will Robots Take All the Supply Chain Jobs?

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Using the right tool for the right job has always been a best practice and one of the reasons, we feel, that RFID has never taken off in the DC as exponentially as pundits have been forecasting since 2006. . Marketing Director, Inovity. Posted on: Jun, 27 2016. Posted on: Aug, 19 2016.