SCRC Articles Library: SCM Resources
SCM Resources Articles
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SCRC Fellows and Bloomberg Terminal
The Supply Chain Resource Cooperative (SCRC) Fellowship from North Carolina State University’s Jenkins Graduate School of Management is structured to be a win-win for the student and the sponsoring industry…
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Labor & Human Rights Supply Chain: Market Research Aerospace & Defense Sustainability Report
Introduction & Key Issues Aerospace & Defense is an industry dependent on high dollar contracts to deliver high end products such as airplanes, fighter jets, tanks and other high dollar…
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Energy (Utilities) Sustainability Report
Key Sustainability Issues in the Energy Industry Reliance on coal (especially on the east coast) Limited suppliers Expense of constructing new Nuclear Plants Issues with current plants – Florida’s Crystal…
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Food and Beverages Sustainability Industry Report
Introduction Today Food and Beverages industry is more competitive than ever. As the companies in the various sectors compete and grow sustainability becomes a very important concern. Sustainability issues in…
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Consumer Products Sustainability Report
The apparel toys/games, and general merchandise industries have a wide range of variability in their sustainability efforts. Overall, the literature review showed a high level of effort on the part…
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NC State’s Supply Chain Resource Cooperative Educates in the Real World
North Carolina State University’s Supply Chain Resource Cooperative (SCRC) is a unique university-industry initiative that provides MBA and undergraduate students with opportunities to apply supply chain (SC) theory and concepts to field-based projects over a semester.
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The Supply Chain IT Investment Enigma: Companies are Rethinking IT Investments
After a period of significant downsizing and reduction in IT, supply chain executives need to re-think their IT investment strategies, particularly given the dominance of the Web, social media and…
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A Quick Primer on BPM: Business Process Management
The concept of business process management (BPM for short) has been around for a number of years now, but just what does it entail? What are the major activities and…
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Summary: Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR): A Tutorial
Summary CPFR has its roots in Efficient Consumer Response (ECR), but goes further by formalizing the planning, sales and order forecasting, and exception handling activities. The CPFR process model consists…
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List of Trade Unions: Tariff and Tax in International Trade
List of Trade Unions (1) Benelux Economic Union (Benelux) Note – acronym from Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg Established 3 February 1958; effective – 1 November 1960 Aim to develop closer…
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List of International Trade Agreements: Tariff and Tax in International Trade
List of International Trade Agreements (1) African, Caribbean, and Pacific Group of States (ACP Group) Established 6 June 1975 Aim to manage their preferential economic and aid relationship with the…
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Additional Readings on Taxation: Tariff and Tax in International Trade
Additional Readings on Taxation Standard sources on government finance More advanced works Useful works on the historical development of fiscal thought Academic thinking about tax policy Overviews of tax systems…
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Trade Prohibitions: Tariff and Tax in International Trade
Trade Prohibitions (1) Prohibited trading partners The Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) of the US Department of the Treasury administers and enforces economic and trade sanctions based on US…
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Trade Agreements: Tariff and Tax in International Trade
Trade Agreements (1) MFN – Most Favored Nation FTA – Free Trade Agreement Other Applications of FTA MFN The most-favored-nation (MFN) clause binds a country to apply to its partner…
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Harmonized Tariff Schedules: Tariff and Tax in International Trade
Harmonized Tariff Schedules International trade has been facilitated by the use of harmonized tariff schedules. Trading countries have agreed on the classification of goods, by use and standardization of the…
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Tariffs: Tariff and Tax in International Trade
Tariffs Tariffs Transit Duties Export Duties Import Duties Tariffs (1) A tariff or customs duty is a tax levied upon goods as they cross national boundaries, usually by the government…
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Taxes: Tariff and Tax in International Trade
Taxes Ad Valorem Supplemental Taxes Value-added Summary Ad Valorem (1) Any tax imposed on the basis of the monetary value of the taxed item. Literally the term means “according to…
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Glossary of Terms: Tariff and Tax in International Trade
Glossary of Terms Common Market Other Taxes Customs Transit Retaliatory Tariffs Customs Union Rules of Origin Documentary Tax Surtaxes and Tariff Surcharges Duty Types Tariff Economic Union Treaties Free Trade…
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Introduction: Tariff and Tax in International Trade
Introduction This resource is provided to be used as a basic learning tool for personnel new to the international procurement function in a firm. The purpose for the learning included…
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Why Do You Need To Know About Supply Chain Management (SCM)?
Supply chain management is as much a philosophical approach as it is a body of tools and techniques, and typically requires a great deal of interaction and trust between companies…
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What Do You Need to Know about Supply Chain Management (SCM)?
The first thing one needs to understand is that SCM doesn’t replace what we’ve learned about management over the last 50 years; it builds upon it. The analogy that a…
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How Do You Do Supply Chain Management (SCM)?
A firm’s SCM efforts start with the development and execution of a long-term supply chain strategy. Among other things, this strategy should: Identify what supply chains the firm wants to…
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What is Supply Chain Management?
What is Supply Chain Management? The concept of Supply Chain Management is based on two core ideas. The first is that practically every product that reaches an end user represents…
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Electronic Data Interchange (EDI): Safe and Secure Global communication
One of the methods available to shippers and receivers which has taken on a new importance in this time of heightened security concerns, is a well established method of processing…
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The Information Supply Chain: Data Integrity Rises in Stature
Abstract: Supply Chain Security must include an enhanced awareness of the amount and nature of data routinely transmitted between trading partners. Supply chain information flows are critical to the success…
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