Supply chain

• In focus: Why your dessert may cost more

  Vanilla is a popular flavoring in many foods — especially desserts. But recent supply chain problems have been anything but sweet.

• A tool to strengthen the supply chain

  This free toolkit helps companies employ effective strategies to promote ethical practices within their supply chain.

• Adding value to reverse logistics

  Management accountants have an important cost-reduction role in the retail returns process.

• Preparing post-Brexit supply chains

  Companies need to consider many factors when preparing for Brexit.

• 5 supply chain best practices

  2 experts share time-tested basics that cut through the complexity of supply chain fraud.

• Using algorithms to fight supply-chain fraud

  More companies are turning to data analytics to detect supply chain fraud.

• Machine learning helps grocers win the fresh-food competition

  Machine learning systems can collect, analyse, and adjust large data sets from a wide variety of sources efficiently and at a relatively low cost.

• Modern slavery: Hidden risks to look for in your supply chain

  Exploitation of labour can be prevalent in any supply chain, in any type of business. And the risk increases wherever there is a low-paid, low-skill, high-turnover workforce.

• Human rights risks in the supply chain

  Regulators, shareholders, and consumers increasingly expect companies to be accountable for what goes on throughout their supply chain. Here’s what to look for.

• Three lessons in managing supply-chain data

  Aidan Goddard, FCMA, CGMA, the CFO and COO of L’Occitane en Provence’s Asia-Pacific operations, explains how Big Data, when harnessed, can help a company cut costs and inform sales and marketing strategies, and how finance figures in.

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