SCM Resources
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 of many of the companies. The key issues concerning these […]
Labor & Human Rights Supply Chain: Market Research Aerospace & Defense Sustainability Report
h2. Introduction & Key Issues p. 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 items. Since the main driver of this industry […]
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. We integrate field-based student […]
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 cloud computing. Fundamentally, there are two components of IT investment: […]
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 decisions surrounding BPM? And where can an interested reader go […]
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 of 4 major processes: Strategy and planning Demand and supply […]
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 in the document is to allow an in depth snapshot […]
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 economic cooperation and integration Members (3) Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands Big […]
List of International Trade Agreements: Tariff and Tax in International Trade
List of International Trade Agreements (1) p. African, Caribbean, and Pacific Group of States (ACP Group) Established 6 June 1975 Aim to manage their preferential economic and aid relationship with the EU Members (77) Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, […]
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 Specifics of taxation in developing countries Taxation of income from […]