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Blue Yonder Associate Makes the Impossible Possible During Missionary Visit to Cambodia 

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Leonardo Viapiana, a Blue Yonder associate in Italy, traveled to Cambodia to volunteer his time to improve health and provide educational services. When reflecting on my volunteer trip to Cambodia, I look back on the intense yet rewarding experiences I endured. It was time to stop supporting from afar and instead, act in person.

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So Your Supply Chain is Banning Bangladesh….and Going to Cambodia?: “The Ugliest Race to the Bottom”

Supply Chain View from the Field

For instance, Puma’s factory in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, worked with the Fair Labor Association to discover a “strong possibility” that fainting workers in the factories was caused by chemical exposure and cited excessive overtime and insufficient drinking water as contributing factors.

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Doing Business in Thailand

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Its bordering countries include Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and Malaysia. Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country not colonized by a European power. Thailand borders the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand. About twice the size of the U.S. state of Wyoming, the country is 513,120 sq. km in size with a fairly consistent tropical climate.

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Collaboration: The New Battle Cry of Supply Chain

Supply Chain Network

Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Vietnam experienced similar wage-related strikes and walkouts. This past summer in China, for example, labor disputes—and a spate of worker suicides—contributed to overnight wage increases of 20 percent or more in some Chinese cities.

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Selecting a Supply Chain Technology Provider is Harder than it Seems

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

He joined the then P&O Containers and then subsequently P&O Nedlloyd from 1994-2000, of which a major part of the time was spent in emerging markets such as Vietnam, Cambodia and China, alongside the UK.

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Modern Slavery in Today’s Supply Chains

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In an announcement of the report results , US Secretary of State John Kerry pointed to an article the New York Times about a Cambodia boy who found himself held by armed men and pressed into service on the sea, shackled by neck to a boat, saying, “If that isn’t slavery and imprisonment, I don’t know what is.”.

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DIVE In Round-Up: 12 Lessons Blue Yonder Associates and Customers Taught Us in 2022

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Leonardo Viapiana, “Blue Yonder Associate Makes the Impossible Possible During Missionary Visit to Cambodia”. Still, I hope people choose to get uncomfortable and understand the abundance of possibilities for creating impactful experiences. September: There will be many factors that contribute to suicide and mental health is a common one.

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