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Navigating Global Trade Regulations: Minimizing Supply Chain Risks When Importing from Abroad

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Regulators have sent numerous messages that companies who source from abroad need to subject their entire supply chain to extensive due diligence, based on state-of-the-art compliance measures to minimize supply chain risks....more

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What to Do if Your Suppliers Are in Distress - Candid Conversations with Suppliers in Distress

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Williams Mullen’s What to Do if Your Suppliers Are in Distress video series describes how to identify your critical suppliers that might be in jeopardy, provides suggestions on how you can help them, and shares how you can...more

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What to Do if Your Suppliers Are in Distress - Identifying Suppliers in Distress

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Williams Mullen’s What to Do if Your Suppliers Are in Distress video series describes how to identify your critical suppliers that might be in jeopardy, provides suggestions on how you can help them, and shares how you can...more

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Exiger’s Fight to Secure Supply Chains: Spotlight on Information Technology and Telecommunications

Welcome to a blog post series on Exiger’s fight to secure supply chains, sponsored by Exiger LLC. In this series, we will explore the ongoing efforts of Exiger to lead the discussion and enhancement of Supply Chain Risk...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Exiger’s Fight to Secure Supply Chains: Spotlight on Manufacturing and Consumer Markets

Welcome to a blog post series on Exiger’s fight to secure supply chains, sponsored by Exiger LLC. In this series, we will explore the ongoing efforts of Exiger to lead the discussion and enhancement of Supply Chain Risk...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

There Is Never a Bad Time To Audit Your Supply Chain

In late December 2021, the United States banned imports of disposable gloves produced in Malaysia by manufacturer Brightway Holdings over allegations of forced labor....more

Mayer Brown

Achieving Successful Business Outcomes Through Supply Chain Risk Management

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The supply chain for products is becoming vastly complex as more and more products involve technology components. Technology may be embedded in products to achieve their intended purpose; remotely connected to monitor and...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Non-Remote Manufacturing in a Remote World

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Manufacturers are encountering myriad challenges as they address delays sourcing materials and producing goods, while meeting the expectations of retailers and consumers who expect fast delivery. The challenges present...more

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Managing the Commercial Impact of the Coronavirus: Implications for the Technology Industry

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The coronavirus (also known as COVID-19) has now been documented in more than 100 countries and territories. As the coronavirus outbreak continues to wreak havoc on markets and industries in the U.S. and around the world,...more

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Coronavirus: Impact on the Retail Industry

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Coronavirus Disease 2019 or “COVID-19” continues to dominate national and international discussion. News outlets in Boston, New York, London, Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, and every other city and town in the world continue...more

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COVID 19 and Supply Chain Contracts

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Covid-19 has caused serious disruption to manufacturers’ ability to produce products and fill orders on a timely basis, which in turn has impeded the performance of countless supply chains....more

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The Long Reach of Proposition 65

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According to the Center for Accountability in Science, since 2010, businesses have spent over $182 million to settle Prop 65 lawsuits. What most companies do not realize is that 75% of settling businesses were headquartered...more

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Coronavirus: Considerations for an Emergency Supply-Chain Response Plan

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We are in "unchartered territory" with the coronavirus, or COVID-19, according to the the World Health Organization's Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. The virus has been documented in more than 70 countries and...more

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An Unintended Interruption to the Global Supply Chain

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The current outbreak of COVID-19 (the coronoavirus) will be a test of the global supply chain’s strength in the face of unintended interruptions, and can be a lesson on building-in supply-chain contingency plans.  As a result...more

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Managing the Commercial Impact of the Coronavirus: An Effective Supply Chain Response Plan

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...The coronavirus (provisionally named SARS-CoV-2, with its disease being named COVID-19) has now been documented in six of the world’s seven continents, with more than 80,000 cases, sparing only Antarctica. Closer to home,...more

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The Impact of the Coronavirus on the Global Supply Chain

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At the end of December, China acknowledged the existence of the coronavirus, and this burgeoning heath crisis is becoming a supply chain problem. China, a major manufacturing hub for materials, products and components being...more

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Coronavirus Outbreak Prompts Supply Chain Disruptions

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Now in its third month, the coronavirus outbreak that began in Wuhan, China, has claimed over 2,000 lives and brought one of the world’s most dynamic economies to a near standstill. ...more

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Addressing the Impact of the Coronavirus on the Public Sector Supply Chain

At the end of December, China acknowledged the existence of the coronavirus. We don’t know how long it has been around or how many people have actually contracted the virus. We do know the virus has spread at an alarming rate...more

Hogan Lovells

Business integrity for consumer companies

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Consumer companies around the world are incorporating sustainability, business integrity, and brand purpose into their business operations. This can include procuring ethically sourced products, ensuring fair pay, or...more

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Financially Troubled Suppliers – Who Are They and How To Identify Them

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There are very few problems in the supply chain that can cause more headaches for manufacturers than a financially troubled supplier. Financially troubled suppliers threaten the continuity of supply as they are often unable...more

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Puerto Rico Case Highlights Need for Secured Parties to Adhere to Good Practices in Documenting Secured Transactions

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Manufacturers encounter financing statements in many contexts – as a borrower, as a supplier of goods sold on credit, as a seller in a leveraged acquisition, as a seller of equipment where financing is provided to the buyer...more

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Best Practices for Customers Structuring Directed-Buy Arrangements

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This article explores the following topics: (1) What is a directed-buy arrangement? (2) What significant issues exist for a customer in a directed-buy arrangement? and (3) What are the best practices for a customer entering...more

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Stopping Traffick: Are There Slaves in Your Company's Supply Chain?

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Are there slaves in your company’s supply chain? How do you know, and what should you do to find out? In our first episode of Stopping Traffick: Ethical Supply Chains & Corporate Risk, John Sullivan interviews Amy Groff about...more

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

Client Alert: Managing Credit Risk in the Supply Chain

Companies expend substantial resources managing the credit risk of customers, to protect the value of their sales. Many companies, however, do not always apply credit risk analysis to its supply chain, focusing instead on...more

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Monitor Financial Distress in Your Supply Chain

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While American manufacturing has experienced a resurgence in recent years, some manufacturers continue to face challenges. Witness for example the recent chapter 11 filings of Colt, Boomerang Tube, and Everyware Global....more

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