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Arriving In One Piece: Considerations for Safely Transporting Products Produced Overseas

From Sealed Air Corporation
 

 

In our rapidly globalizing world, more companies are developing global supply chains and outsourcing aspects of manufacturing and productions to foreign countries. Taking a global operating approach to business is a necessary step for most companies to succeed today but in order to be borderless, organizational structures and supply chains must recognize the impact and costs associated with longer distribution process and lead times, less sophisticated infrastructures, and harder to maintain quality control to fully evaluate the benefits and risks associated with the entire product outsourcing process.


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