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Rewriting the rules of global supply chain design
Business, Kanishka Ghosh, Published on 22/02/2017
» Are the winds of globalisation blowing in the reverse direction? The topic preoccupied participants at the recent World Economic Forum (WEF), the gathering of business and political elites in Davos, Switzerland. One headline that caught our eye was "Davos CEOs 'go local' on supply chain in Trump era".
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Industrial revolution 4.0: depopulating supply chains
Business, Kanishka Ghosh, Published on 09/03/2016
» Who will control the world in future? Humans or robots? This question may seem weird to many but it is not entirely unfounded.
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Advantages of responsible supply chains
Business, Kanishka Ghosh, Published on 04/11/2015
» Let me start by asking a simple question to our valued readers. Are there any extra planets where humanity can survive? The answer is unfortunately and unequivocally "No".
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Shifting Tides in the Global Supply Chain
Business, Kanishka Ghosh, Published on 23/09/2015
» Volatility and shocks are an ever-present feature of the global economy, so supply chains must always adapt to constant reverberations in the global economy. To sustain growth in the face of challenging times, we must first answer two fundamental questions -- what will the future look like, and how will global and domestic supply chains adapt to that future?
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Welcome to the new world of 'reshoring'
Business, Kanishka Ghosh, Published on 08/04/2015
» Germany's Software AG says 2015 is shaping up as the tipping point for supply chains. It recently released its top 10 predictions for the manufacturing and supply chain industry this year, one of which relates to the emerging trend of "reshoring" — the return of manufacturing to developed markets as wages rise in emerging economies.
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3D printing and supply chain disruption
Business, Kanishka Ghosh, Published on 18/06/2014
» If you’re not excited by 3D printing, you’re not thinking big enough, say some technology visionaries who predict that life on Earth will soon change radically due to it.
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Promoting supply chain excellence in packaging
Business, Kanishka Ghosh, Published on 26/02/2014
» ‘Packaging is the only handshake that a product has with the consumer” is an industry saying that sums up the strong correlation between product preferences and packaging. This relationship is gradually becoming stronger in Asia with rapid economic growth, urbanisation and the surge in the number of middle-income people. This, of course, has been driving the modern trade retailing sector.
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Will the value chain supplant the supply chain?
Business, Kanishka Ghosh, Published on 14/08/2013
» With the dynamic changes in the marketplace, from the age of "mass production" to the interim phase of "mass customisation" phase to the present "touchscreen" world, it seems the value chain will soon supplant supply chains. Changing consumer preferences have forced an unprecedented rethinking of the meaning and purpose of the supply chain.
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The 'Shared Value' supply chain
Business, Kanishka Ghosh, Published on 27/03/2013
» One of the biggest challenges the world faces over the next half-century is how to create a better quality of life for a global population that is expected to top out at 9 billion by 2050. As populations expand, finite resources such as land, water and energy as well as biological resources get divided among increasing numbers of people, with the distinct possibility some will be left with no resources at all, posing a serious global humanitarian threat.
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Packaging: A silent hero in the supply chain
Business, Kanishka Ghosh, Published on 26/09/2012
» In the run-up to the formation of the Asean Economic Community in 2015, the National Science Technology and Innovation (STI) Policy Office has declared its goal to increase spending on research and development from less than 0.25% of gross domestic product, or US$1.1 billion, to 2% of GDP over the next decade.
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