Posts by daniela

Why to check suppliers for a slave labor?

17

Apr 2014


Global Sourcing, Quality Management, Safety and Compliance, Supplier Assessment
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Why to check suppliers for a slave labor?

Just half of UK manufacturing companies are auditing their first tier suppliers for child workers, slaves and conflict minerals, according to researches. It found fewer – 38 per cent – are auditing tier two vendors on the same criteria; and one in five said they are confident in suppliers’ ethical compliance purely because of personal relationships. The study revealed 80 per cent of UK manufacturers said they were “very confident” their tier one suppliers did not use slave labor,...

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New shipping opportunities

11

Apr 2014


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New shipping opportunities

Senior government officials from Japan and Norway believe that developing environmental solutions is set to be a new growth area for the marine and shipping industries. In a message to the opening ceremony of Sea Japan 2014 in Tokyo on Wednesday, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, said he had high hopes that the marine resource management market would become a new growth area. Other Japanese government officials underscored the view that the green revolution in shipping provided business...

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International Trade Priority In Canada

24

Feb 2014


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International Trade Priority In Canada

ECONOMIC SANCTIONS Canada imposes economic sanctions against a number of countries pursuant to the Special Economic Measures Act and the United Nations Act. In Budget 2014, the federal government has acknowledged that the due diligence requirements under Canada's economic sanctions place a significant burden on the private sector. For example, existing sanctions strictly regulate interactions with designated individuals and entities, whose names are contained in 19 separate lists located on f...

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Where did the product come from?

21

Feb 2014


Global Sourcing, Quality Control, Safety and Compliance, Supplier Assessment
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Where did the product come from?

A certification scheme won't work – data should move through the supply chain as efficiently as the goods themselves How did the everyday things that we buy get here, and from where? It seems a simple enough question and yet for the vast majority of things we buy it is completely unanswerable. The label may say "made in China", but normally that's just where the bits and pieces were put together. So where do the bits come from, and how do we find out? Why should we care? The total val...

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How to reach Chinese online shoppers

14

Feb 2014


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How to reach Chinese online shoppers

Online sales in China could generate $650 billion by 2020. And it’s not only Web-savvy urbanites embracing e-commerce, but also residents of China’s smaller cities and rural areas. Rapid sales of low-cost, high-functionality smartphones have helped to expand Internet access quickly across China. Consumers in remote areas not served by large shopping malls are increasingly going online, often with their smartphones, to find the products they want. Residents of smaller cities spend a greate...

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Supply Chain Key to Success in China

10

Feb 2014


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Supply Chain Key to Success in China

It’s no secret that China’s domestic consumption is rising rapidly. Chinese consumers are buying more of everything (from apparel and white goods to luxury items and home ware) and as they buy more, from more channels, including online, at single brand stores and from large specialty chains, domestic and foreign owned companies have to re-asses their supply chain infrastructure in China for both selling and making goods. Supply Chain in China was once an afterthought or was only thought o...

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Aspects of sustainable product sourcing

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Jan 2014


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Aspects of sustainable product sourcing

How sustainable product sourcing can become a business centerpiece? Companies that have made the effort to adopt green procurement practices know eco-friendly supply chain techniques can't simply be implemented in isolation. Rather, in order to be as effective as possible, sustainability needs to be made an integral part of the firm's larger business strategy. The logic behind this principle is clear. The distribution supply chain is a large network made up of a variety of different typ...

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12 key sales trends for 2014

13

Jan 2014


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12 key sales trends for 2014

The unprecedented changes we are experiencing as a result of the digital revolution and commoditisation of products, services, quality and even pricing, mean we can no longer manage sales by processes, protocols or numbers alone – selling has become a thinking person’s game. Sales operations are complex systems that involve many variables making it almost impossible to predict outcomes. Today, with rampant change, that unpredictability has increased in pace and impact. To have a highl...

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Australian grapes come at Korea

06

Jan 2014


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Australian grapes come at Korea

Korean authorities have agreed to finalize conditions for the import of Australian grapes, just in time for the Southern Hemisphere country’s upcoming season. Australian Table Grape Association (ATGA) chief executive officer Jeff Scott said the successful negotiation and market access achievement was the result of close collaboration between the ATGA and the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF). “We expect trade to occur later in this coming harvest season once...

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Things To Know About The TPP

30

Dec 2013


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Things To Know About The TPP

The three-year-old Trans-Pacific Partnership talks, now involving 12 nations, are aimed at lowering trade barriers across a wide range of sectors in 12 Pacific Rim counties that would stretch from U.S. to New Zealand and from Japan to Chile. TPP, arguably the most important trade agreement in a generation, emerged following nearly a decade of disappointment in trade talks. The World Trade Organization’s Doha Development Round of talks first collapsed in 2003 and effectively died with th...

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