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Savvy Supply Chain Leaders Aren’t Letting a Good Downturn Go to Waste

Logistics Viewpoints

A famous 2010 HBR article, “Roaring Out of Recession,” studied how 4,700 public companies fared during the recessions of 1980, 1990, and 2000. For example, imagine your company moves 10,000 containers a year with an average contents value of $75,000. 17% went bankrupt, went private, or were acquired. Reduced working capital.

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Optimizing Rail Freight with Rail Management Services

CLX Logistics

In fact, the time between 2010 to 2020 proved to be the safest decade ever for United States railroads, and the industry is projected to grow by 50% over the next 30 years. CLX Logistics, for example, possesses a deep understanding of regulatory requirements and railroad operations.

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Supply Chain Trend Predictions

Logistics Business Magazine

In fact, that journey started in the 1960s as large companies around the world started to embrace EDI communication and document standards. The Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation in the European Union is a good example of these regulations.

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Walmart: 3 Keys to Successful Supply Chain Management any Business Can Follow

GlobalTranz

And on the subject of sustainability, SCDigest.com covered Walmart’s 2015 Sustainability report : Walmart, the world’s largest corporation, is fresh out with its 2015 sustainability report, the eighth such document it has produced. Walmart has held a place among Gartner’s top 20 supply chains since 2010.

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Inauguration of a Regional Center of Excellence against Hunger and Malnutrition: a ray of hope for…

World Food Programme Logistics

As a Regional Center for West and Central Africa, the Center primary objective will be to document, promote and share to both regional and national levels the good practices of eradication of hunger and malnutrition learned from Cote d’Ivoire and other countries of the region. Well, now what ?

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31 Motivations for Reshoring Manufacturing & Updated Reshoring Stats

GlobalTranz

for example, compared to shipping state-to-state. Errors in interpretation of product specifications, shipping documents, and other critical instructions, due to language barriers are reduced. For example, Chinese wages have increased 320% since 2000. from abroad (mostly between 2010 and 2014, per Moser). Since 2005, U.S.

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Ethics in Procurement – Simple, but Not Always Easy

Logistics Bureau

For example, how would you deal with the following situations in procurement? Read on for more about these examples in the text that follows. Stolen and black-market supplies are further examples. For example: If senior management does not know about the lack of ethics, or if it takes no action, then it is essentially inept.