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Is it time to audit your customs service provider? As a company dealing with international suppliers or customers, your business succeeds when your supply chain functions seamlessly. Given the demands of global business and the rapid evolution of customs policies and international regulations, your relationship with your customs brokerage partner can provide you with a strategic advantage – but only if your requirements are being met. Learn the questions you should ask to determine if your provider is helping you meet your business goals.  Download the report today!

In the wake of recent environmental disasters, many companies feel the need to have a “resilient supply chain”. A resilient supply chain can mitigate risks and reduce the effect of catastrophes.

AberdeenGroup’s newest report, CSCO View of Resilient Supply Chains, examines the concept of a resilient supply chain and identifies strategies for improving resiliency, including:

• Gain visibility beyond the enterprise into supplier and partner networks
• Right size inventories to buffer, sole source or regional risks
• Establish a plan of record to compare against and provide exception management
• Incorporate risk strategies into the sales and operations planning process

Find out how boosting your company’s resiliency can result in significant cost savings - download the report today!

This report brings to light the waning strength of China’s labor-intensive export manufacturing and its impact on manufacturing activity in other developing economies. Rising wages and labor shortages are prompting factory owners in China to relocate facilities where wages are lower or competitive and supply of unskilled and semi-skilled workers is abundant.

Get a better understanding of how these trends effect the global supply chain and download your FREE report today!

RidgePort Logistics Center is an 18 million square foot rail-served park located on more than 1,500 acres and located less than 40 miles southwest of downtown Chicago. RidgePort Logistics Center is eight miles from BNSF Railway’s Logistics Park Chicago, the largest inland container port in the United States. In 2006, Logistics Park Chicago handled 730,000 containers and is expected to grow to in excess of 1.2 million containers in the coming years. 

Download more information about RidgePort features, map and coverage here.

This report was designed to give chemical manufacturers, distributors, and those servicing the chemical supply chain, a high-level view of top markets based on aggregate data for U.S. chemical exports.  The report provides a detailed analysis of top markets for U.S. chemical exports classified under chapters 28 & 29 of the harmonized tariff schedule.

Click Here to download your whitepaper and understand what chemicals are experiencing high growth in each of these markets and how market conditions in each of these countries are driving these trends.