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Sustainability: Do Supply Management and Global Sourcing Matter? (Guest Post by Jury Gualandris, UCD)

SCM Research

Over the last decades, however, supply chains have been undergoing a process of increasing globalization, which has created the need for differentiated sustainability approaches for firms sourcing globally rather than regionally. Jury is a Lecturer at UCD Smurfit Graduate Business School in Dublin, Ireland. Gualandris, J.,

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Reddit Black Hawk College East

Supply Chain Shaman

Source Normalized Influence for every Paper (SNIP) Resource Normalized Effect for every Paper (SNIP) actions contextual citation affect by weighting citations centered on the overall quantity of citations in a issue discipline. CiteScore is basically the common citations per document that a title gets around a 3-year period.

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Supply chain security: local vs global

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Britain is the main source of imports for Ireland, making up more than 20 per cent in 2018 and 2019, despite uncertainty around the UK’s departure from the EU, according to the Central Statistics Office.

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Asia, better brace yourself for Usagi! He’s not in a good mood…

Supply Chain View from the Field

One idea: import manufacturers might diversify production partner locations instead of having all of their product sources in a single basket.

Asia 113
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Boeing’s Potential Sourcing Reversal- Financial or Operational?

Supply Chain Matters

Boeing spun out this supplier, which was once a part of this plane maker’s internal production in 2005 in a major strategic sourcing move. Further reported is that Spirit is separately exploring the divesting of aircraft structures production located in Ireland, specifically for supporting aircraft producer Airbus. All rights reserved.

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Halloween Nightmares: Mitigating Risk for Importers

QAD

In 2018, authorities in Ireland confiscated over 700 Halloween items. This is a particular worry considering the popularity of Halloween bonfires in Ireland. Many Halloween items are disposable and low value, but that doesn’t mean you should source from the cheapest supplier. The seized items included toys, props and costumes.

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The Global Trade Compliance Market is Crazy!

Logistics Viewpoints

Many multinationals have engineered their global supply chains to minimize taxation by creating subsidiaries in low taxation nations like Switzerland, Ireland, and Singapore. Finally, in making sourcing decisions, global trade compliance needs to be part of companies strategic sourcing programs.

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