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The Green Corridor: Resilience from Diversification

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

I recently came back from vacation in Malawi a land-locked country of 19 million that surrounds Lake Malawi. Like many countries today, Malawi struggles to provide basic services to a large number of its people. Where Malawi sits 13 degrees south of the equator, Thailand sits 15 degrees north.

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Fixing supply chain inefficiencies: what we did and why it’s hard

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We launched this with the mission to unlock the financial incentives that reward sustainability in supply chains. Since 90% of your business’s impact happens in your supply chain ( McKinsey, 2016 ), addressing how to improve this has the potential to be massive. However, supply chains are opaque by design. .

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5 lessons from leading a blockchain social innovation project

Provenance

Their significant role in supply chains. The problems of smallholders’ living incomes are huge – much larger than I as a Western consumer ever realised . Ignorantly, in my Western bubble, I never realised: How many smallholders there are in the world (circa 500 million globally).

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4 Technology Trends Set to Transform Your eCommerce Business

Vinculum

Tech-trend #1 – AI Powered Supply Chain Management. A research assesses how AI is used in existing operational processes to revamp them and hence, cost-effective supply chain solutions is getting facilitated. A key role will aptly be played by these tech-trends we are looking at –.

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5 tips and tools for collaborative working while remote

Provenance

We are often enabling a business to bring data together from across their supply chain, often not a local endeavour. Global supply chains provide a challenging environment for coordinating meetings, often involving participation from multiple businesses across continents and timezones. How can we help you?

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Sustainable Forestry: Can We Get It Right?

EcoVadis

Producing forestry and agriculture products for export, e.g. into global supply chains, is an attractive means for many developing nations to create economic growth. Done responsibly, this can succeed. However, the current state of deforestation shows there is much work to be done to achieve a healthy balance.

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S.E.C. Approval of Conflict Minerals Rules: a landmark in supply chain disclosure requirements

EcoVadis

Countries covered by the new rules in addition to the DRC include South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Angola, the Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic. Last but not least the final rule exempts any conflict minerals that are “outside the supply chain” prior to January 31, 2013.