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Your Next Perfect Employee or Job Is Waiting

SupplyChainBrain and JobsInLogistics have joined forces in 2014 for the specialized purpose of:

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Africa Business: From 'Hopeless' to Land of 'Growth Miracle'

When Kevin Smith and his partners started a solar energy firm in Santa Monica in 2008, they expected to sell their technology to advanced economies in Europe and the United States. But much of the action has been in a part of the world Smith initially wrote off: Africa.

Icix Creates Cloud-Based App for Product Safety Compliance

Icix, a vendor of applications for global supply-chain risk management, has developed Direct Test.

Virgin Atlantic Cargo Acquires 'Green' Containers

Virgin Atlantic Cargo has taken delivery of 802 lightweight air-cargo containers.

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Are We Imaginative Enough About the Potential of 3D Printing?

The year is 2017. Nearly every one of the 120 million households in the U.S. has its own multicolor 3DC3 printer with a C3 bath (a C3H6O finishing tank). The president of the United States officially announces a total end to consumer imports of plastic goods.

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Radisys Closes the Outsourcing Communications Gap

The maker of wireless infrastructure opted to outsource its manufacturing to Asia. In the process, it was confronted with a host of problems related to a lack of visibility and poor communications with the chosen partner. It was time to automate the process, and get everybody on the same page.

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Coca-Cola Pledges Additional $5Bn for Its African Manufacturing, Supply Chain Operations

The Coca-Cola Company and its African bottling partners announced a new investment of $5bn during the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington. The investment, to be made over the next six years, increases its total announced investment in Africa to $17bn from 2010 to 2020. The Company and its bottling partners anticipate that this investment will fund new manufacturing lines, cooling and distribution equipment and production; create additional jobs and opportunities across Coca-Cola's African supply chain; and support key sustainability initiatives and programs focused on safe water access, sustainable sourcing, women’s economic empowerment, community well-being and operational efficiency improvements.

Battling Risk, Part 2: The Best and Worst Countries for Supply-Chain Resilience

There's a new method for benchmarking the resiliency of your supply chain.

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White House Partners with Amazon, Others on Climate Change Resilience

Along with its warning that delaying action on climate change would cause enormous economic losses, the White House has announced a series of data-related initiatives to prepare U.S. food and water supplies - along with the industries and jobs that rely on them - for climate challenges.

Supply Chain Challenges in Emerging Markets

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Supply Chain Strategy and the Boardroom

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Supply Chain Modeling and Optimization in a Global Business

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