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McDonald’s Mesoamérica Supply Chain Response to COVID-19

ToolsGroup

We have 135 restaurants, four distribution centers, and we also manage three manufacturing facilities, with more than 5,000 SKUs, and we deliver to each restaurant up to three times a week. Honduras, they have placed an absolute curfew for 15 days, so we’re actually, now for two weeks, basically closed out, selling absolutely nothing.

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Tropical Storm Nate: What You Need to Know

Elementum

Tropical Storm Nate has already left 22 people dead, blocked roads, damaged bridges and houses in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Honduras. Louisiana, the first state expected to be affected by the storm, boasts traditional and emerging industries which include advanced manufacturing, aerospace, agri-business, automotive, and energy.

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The Key Coffee Industry Trends For 2021 & Beyond

Unleashed

Organisations at any point of the global coffee supply chain would do well to know what’s happening at their product’s point of origin to anticipate how the coming financial year – and beyond – may pan out. The world’s top coffee exporters. Source: Statista. Trends for coffee exporters.

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Scandinavian Tobacco Group Goes Live with Ivalua’s Platform to Accelerate Procurement Digital Transformation

ivalua

STG is a world leading manufacturer of cigars and traditional pipe tobacco with approx. 11,000 employees across the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Nicaragua, Indonesia, Europe, the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Export markets.

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Webinar Recap: The Case for a Pan-American Manufacturing Ecosystem

Resilinc

In the decades since, Linton and his teams at IBM, LG, Flex and other companies have driven billions in annual procurement to China and other Asian countries, helping to create the Asia-centric manufacturing supply chains of today. based manufacturers will still need a strong supply base from friendly countries.

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Regionalize for resilience

Resilinc

became more dependent on foreign manufacturers for active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). The Drug, Chemical & Associated Technologies Association have blamed this on a “race to the bottom” mentality that drove manufacturing to low-cost countries such as India and China, which are now the largest global suppliers of APIs.

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Q&A with Sidney Johnson: Veteran Supply Chain Practitioner and Resilinc Advisory Board Member

Resilinc

In those roles, we closely aligned with 3,000 total suppliers globally, constituting about 6,500 individual manufacturing locations. We operated in the Americas, so we spent significant time in places like Canada, the US, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, and Honduras, but we also operated all around the globe.