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Cheaper, Greener and City-Friendly: Enter the Automated Last Mile

As the world grapples with high levels of air and water pollution resulting from freight transportation, and emission rates rise with increasing urbanization, sustainability issues surrounding congestion and delivery become more significant.

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How to Prepare for the Next Supply Chain Disruption

Recent supply chain disruptions exposed many gaps in the global trading system and geopolitical forecasting, while underscoring dangerous and expensive weaknesses in supply chain management.

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Three Tips for SMBs Expanding Overseas

On its face, the pandemic-era mantra for small and medium businesses (SMBs) is a simple one: adapt, adapt, adapt.

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Life Science Research Struggles With an Antiquated Supply Chain

What might well be the most important supply chain in the world today is also one of the most backward, when it comes to automating key processes.

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Seven Ways Global Data Standards Could Improve Healthcare Supply Chains

Supply shortages during the pandemic have underscored the need for data accuracy, visibility and sharing across multiple parties within the healthcare system.

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World’s Biggest Brands Adopt Checklist to Rescue Stuck Seafarers

Unilever Plc and other big retail brands are among consumer giants adopting a toolkit to audit their shipping supply chains in an effort to help bring seafarers stuck on commercial vessels back home and eliminate human rights risks.

Container ships are moored near the Port of Nansha in Guangzhou, China. Photo: Bloomberg.

On-Time Delivery Is a Battle Heating Up Between Brands and Retailers

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced brands and retailers alike to adapt their business models and supply chain practices.

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Four Challenges of Expanding Into Latin America

Mobile communication gaps, regulations that differ from country to country, and unexpected customs holds are some of the issues to consider.

In Southeast Asia, Packaging Rules Make Covid Testing Thorny

Differences in infectious substance classifications, packaging requirements and other shipping regulations between countries create significant supply-chain challenges — particularly when it comes to sourcing approved packaging for shipping COVID-19 samples in Southeast Asia.

How the U.K.-EU Trade Deal Impacts Supply Chains

For the most part, the trade agreement maintains continuity of supply and prevents greater challenges that industries might have faced without it.

Podcast | Unilever Pledges a ‘Living Wage’ for Its Global Supply Chain

The consumer products giant Unilever plc is promising a “living wage” for all of its supply-chain workers by the year 2030. Can it make good on that pledge?

Bottles of Unilever skincare products move along the production line at a factory in Cikarang, Indonesia. Photo: Bloomberg.

Watch: Can Importers Still Use the ‘First Sale’ Rule for Goods From China?

Dana Watts, counsel with Miller & Chevalier, explains the “first sale” rule for reducing U.S. importers’ duty levels, and discusses whether it remains a viable method for achieving that purpose.

Can Importers Still Use the ‘First Sale’ Rule for Goods From China?

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