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Manufacturers Must Seek Better Supply Chain Visibility

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There are two initiatives that we believe manufacturers should elevate to the top of the priority list for their company: tracing the upstream supply chain and supplier capacity management. Visibility into supplier capacity. This initiative, a subset of the one above, is one of the hottest areas of interest for manufacturers in 2016.

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5G: The Transformation of Defense Networks

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In June 2016, Lieutenant Colonel Pimentel reported to Marine Wing Headquarters Squadron 1, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing in Okinawa, Japan where he served as the Network Operations Officer and the Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff G-6. In his current capacity, he serves as a trusted advisor to a multitude of clients in throughout the world.

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Empowering auditors: Indonesia uses data-driven oversight to clean up its corruption-prone procurement sector

Open Contracting Partnership

According to a monitoring report by Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW), there were 1,586 cases of corruption in procurement detected between 2016 and 2022, amounting to total losses to the state of around US$2.7 In the second case, the road to be repaired had only been built in 2016 and was still in good condition. billion). “We

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Zara – The Benefits of Agile Procurement / Supply Chain

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On September 7th 2016, a relatively unknown person became the richest man on the planet during two days before Bill Gates reclaimed his title (recently overtaken by Jeff Bezos). Spare Capacity. The man is called Amancio Ortega , and journalists were surprised to find out he is the founder of the retail store Zara. .

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Why is collecting and analysing data about public procurement so damned difficult? Data scientists explain some common problems

Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

In our 2016–17 ACE project, we focused on collecting data from development aid donors and lenders rather than from national governments, assuming that this would be a more reliable source since such agencies face a lot of pressure to be transparent, and also have the capacity to collect data.

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The Future of 5G in Defense and Beyond

FedInsider

In June 2016, Lieutenant Colonel Pimentel reported to Marine Wing Headquarters Squadron 1, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing in Okinawa, Japan where he served as the Network Operations Officer and the Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff G-6. In his current capacity, he serves as a trusted advisor to a multitude of clients in throughout the world.

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Discover the AWS Global Cloud Infrastructure located in Canada

AWS Public Sector

In Canada, we have two Regions, each containing three AZs: Canada Central in Montréal, Quebec (launched in 2016), and Canada West in Calgary, Alberta (launched in 2023). This is accomplished through a completely redundant 400 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) fiber network backbone, often offering numerous terabits of capacity across different Regions.