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The Zara’s logistics process

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

All other manufacturing activities, including labor-intensive finishing stages, are completed by a network of over three hundred subcontractors, each specializing in a part of production or a type of article. These subcontractors work exclusively for Zara. Un Modelo de Empresa Innovadora y Flexible: el caso Zara.

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The Industrial Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis

Logistics Bureau

When leading economists start talking about a drop in manufacturing comparable to the start of the 2007-2008 global financial crisis, you can be sure that the world’s leading industries are in for a torrid few months. How US Techno Giants Have Responded to COVID-19.

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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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Why Human Psychology is Key to Effective Human-robot Interaction?

Logistics Business Magazine

Craig Summers, UK Managing Director of Manhattan Associates , reflects on Manhattan Associates’ annual virtual event, Momentum Connect and its biggest takeaway. In 2007 she bought a toy robot dinosaur; “because it had motors, touch sensors and an infrared camera. by the events of the past?18 Professor of?human-robot

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Will the New Tax Bill Bring Overseas Profits Back Home?

Supply Chain Brain

Late last year, prior to passage of the tax bill, financial technology provider C2FO surveyed corporate treasurers and other financial executives about what they would do in the event of a repatriation tax holiday or deep tax cut. Comment on this article. Forty-six percent said they would return cash to the U.S.

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

World Food Programme Logistics

Furthermore, the food-price spikes of 2007/8 demonstrate that export restrictions, market speculation and panic behaviour were, in part, responsible for the dramatic increase in global food prices in that period?—?measures link] This is an edited version of an article from WFP-USA. measures we are not protected against today.

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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. It may seem strange that procurement, often viewed as an unexciting part of an enterprise, can find itself embroiled in events and situations that make world headlines.