Ira Kalish, a retail analyst at PricewaterhouseCoopers, predicts that as suppliers succumb to pressure from retailers, perhaps a third of a supermarket's lines could be sourced globally or regionally in five years, up from less than 10% now.Yet global sourcing is no panacea, because it conflicts with the need to cater to local tastes.
To the Editor: I wanted to thank Thomas L. Friedman for highlighting M.I.T.'s student-run Vehicle Design Summit, which is taking an open-source, globally collaborative approach to developing a 200 m.p.g.-equivalent car.
When Carlos Ghosn took control in 2000, he broke Nissan's exclusive ties with suppliers and started sourcing globally.
Here, the falling pound boosts the price of everything sourced globally – from a Starbucks cappuccino to a MacBook – while growth goes into reverse.
Wind energy has been considered as one of the primary renewable energy sources globally.
Rapid growth in the use of renewable energy sources globally has made DC MGs popular as residential loads, energy storage systems (ESS) as well as renewable distributed generators (DGs) like rooftop photovoltaic (PV) are of DC types.
ReliefWeb is an online service of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) that acts as a clearinghouse for disaster information following an event and collects updates from more than 4,000 sources globally (ReliefWeb 2014).
Meltwater is a service that tracks keywords and phrases from 115 000 sources globally each day.
The observed wide range of drinking water lithium concentrations among villages in the Puna region reinforces the need to screen all drinking water sources globally for many more potentially toxic elements than currently recommended.
It is increasingly recognized that innovation needs to be sourced globally and that we need to think in terms of co-development as ideas are developed and spread from richer to poorer countries and vice versa.
