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Sense and respond: MIT blog forecasts supply chain trends
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The site also hosts a "Directions" section that includes more abstract, speculative reflections that are not related to specific events.
From the Quarter 02 2007 issue
Diethylene glycol in toothpaste from China. Rampant film piracy in Canada. George Bush's recent push for greenhouse-gas reductions. All of these are "sensors," or signs of potential supply chain trends, according to the editors of Supply Chain 2020 Sensors Watch, a new Web log ("blog") posted by the Center for Transportation & Logistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)....
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