In any event, Mexico sees its car industry as part of a global supply chain.
It means that any firm, anywhere, can hook up to a global supply chain.
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To this day, different militia often control the mines, selling the minerals into the global supply chain.
While today's global supply chain can be tough to manage, software now alerts companies to ordering or delivery problems.
And these diverse workers are often part of a global supply chain that keeps going 24 hours a day.
As trade shrinks, millions of workers are losing their foothold on the bottom rungs of the global supply chain.
It will set up a global supply chain with manufacturing hubs in such places as Portugal, Morocco and Sri Lanka.
In the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the world learned a lesson about how easily a global supply chain can be disrupted.
Increasingly however, many companies are re-establishing the balance between risk and cost focus as they manage their global supply chain.
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While the flood waters have since receded, the global supply chain now faces the potential for another serious issue in Thailand.
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Apart from some of the industries mentioned above, Japan forms part of the global supply chain and would affect industries around the world.
They tend to get lost amid the modern global supply chain--until an event like the Mar. 11 quake and tsunami disrupts those processes.
The auto sector had a rough year, particularly after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, which disrupted the global supply chain and affected production.
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He and his colleagues at the Stanford Global Supply Chain Management Forum are in business to help firms run their supply chains more efficiently and effectively.
"We are investigating across our global supply chain to see if a factory in this building was currently producing for Wal-Mart, " said Megan Murphy, a company spokeswoman.
Toyota had to face the devastating effects of the earthquake and tsunami that battered Japan two years ago, disrupting its global supply chain and causing a partial meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
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Toyota had a difficult couple of years given the disruption in its global supply chain caused by the earthquake-cum-tsunami that battered Japan in 2011, causing a partial meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
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When you throw in shipping costs, the need to maintain a global supply chain and political risk, Boston Consulting estimates that between 600, 000 and 1m jobs will return to the US from overseas in the next few years.
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Until 2011, Goma was a regional trading center for minerals such as tin, coltan and tantalum, but an escalation in violence as well as new U.S. regulations restricting conflict minerals from the global supply chain have stalled the trade.
Until 2011, Goma was a regional trading center for minerals such as tin, coltan and tantlume but an escalation in violence as well as new U.S. regulations restricting conflict minerals from the global supply chain have stalled the trade.
In an environment where changes in global supply chain can be as sudden as they are unscripted, companies have to arm themselves with both foresight and peripheral vision, an understanding of the long-term, and agility to deal with the short-term.
Mr Harcourt believes the key to export success is to target the surging middle class demand for cars in Asia and the Middle East, while providing components to the global supply chain and developing environmental technology for greater fuel efficiencies.
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In an open letter, Scottish and Southern Energy said the Orkney and Shetland upgrade projects had "experienced challenges in securing planning consents and land acquisition, and will be subject to delivery constraints in the global supply chain for subsea cables".
Battered by an earthquake, a massive tsunami, and an ensuing nuclear crisis as authorities struggle to control the fallout at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, Japan has become a possible headache for producers as it is an important part of the global supply chain.
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In terms of the effect, I believe that the effect of the -- on the supplies chain that was caused by -- the global supply chain, especially in automobile manufacturing, that was caused by the earthquake and tsunami, that that has certainly diminished.
"We are providing a platform for business leaders and others concerned with the environment and corporate social responsibility to work together toward the common goal of ensuring the availability of natural resources, supporting social reforms, and at the same time securing the efficient delivery of supplies, " said Hau Lee, co-director of the Stanford Global Supply Chain Management Forum.
Japan is also one of the most important nodes in the global electronics supply chain.
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