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May 1, 2008

Exploiting the Global Supply Chain

By Jeremy N. Smith
World Trade Magazine, May 1, 2008

The difference between an international and purely domestic supply chain strategy? “Everything!”

So says Greg Lehmkuhl vice president, global automotive, for Menlo Worldwide Logistics, one of five veteran executives World Trade asked to advise companies going global for the first time or expanding existing international operations. Doing business abroad introduces vast new variables to a preexisting mostly domestic supply chain.

“If I looked back five years ago, probably five percent of the requests for transportation solutions were international,” says Erv Bluemner, vice president, product marketing transportation solutions, RedPrairie. “Now the numbers are between thirty and thirty-five percent. Most of that shift has occurred in just the last twenty-four months.”Read more...

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