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Association's Standards Designed to Deal with Transportation Cargo That Continues to Grow More Sophisticated

The Transported Asset Protection Association (TAPA) launched what it calls the most comprehensive supply chain security standards in TAPA's 17-year history to combat increasingly sophisticated thefts.

How to Plan for Disruptions in the Food Supply Chain

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How Supply Chain Is Driving Change in Healthcare

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Why Suppliers and Buyers Need a New Approach to Pricing

Talk all you want about the deeper aspects of supplier-buyer relationships. But doesn't it always come down to price?

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Underwriters Labs Increases Supply Chain Services

Safety science company Underwriters Laboratories launched its Information & Insights division, created to meet the demands by businesses for more sustainably made products - including housewares, beauty supplies, cleaning products and consumer technologies from computers to smart devices - and sustainable supply chains.

The Big Transportation Funding Debate: To Toll or Not to Toll

Just about everybody wants to revitalize the nation's crumbling transportation infrastructure. Too bad we can't agree on how to pay for it.

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Sedex Partners With World Bank on Open Supply Chain Platform

Sedex Global, a specialist in aiding companies in the development of responsible and ethical business practices within their supply chains, has partnered with the World Bank Institute to develop the Open Supply Chain Platform.

Federal Agencies' Focus on U.S. Port Cybersecurity 'Limited', GAO Says

Actions taken by the Department of Homeland Security and two of its component agencies, the U.S. Coast Guard and Federal Emergency Management Agency, as well as other federal agencies, to address cybersecurity in the maritime port environment have been limited, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

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U.S. Delay in Cargo Scanning 'Hardly Surprising' Given Size of Task, British Freight Association Head Says

According to Peter Quantrill, director general of the British International Freight Association, it was "hardly surprising" to hear the recent news that the U.S. has delayed new rules requiring all cargo containers entering the U.S. to be security scanned prior to departure from overseas for two more years, amid questions over whether this is the best way to protect U.S. ports.

Companies, Organizations Worldwide Lose 5 Percent of Revenues to Internal Theft, Study Says

Organizations around the world lose an estimated 5 percent of their annual revenues to occupational fraud, according to a survey of certified fraud examiners who investigated cases between January 2012 and December 2013. Applied to the estimated 2013 gross world product, this figure translates to a potential total fraud loss of more than $3.5tr.

Supply Chain Managers Concerned About Climate-Induced Business Disruptions

The semiconductor and electronics industries have learned in the most difficult manner in the past few years how damaging business disruptions due to weather can be.

Improving the Healthcare Supply Chain Through Guidelines

"There are some horrible working conditions; kids as young as seven making surgical instruments; people losing limbs. It's horrendous," says Mahmoud Bhutta, consultant surgeon and founder of the British Medical Association's (BMA) Medical Fair and Ethical Trade Group, established in 2007. "Many of the companies [which supply the NHS] have been burying their heads in the sand."

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