CORE Information Observatory

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cbra_blog_post_040116Please visit FP7-CORE Information Observatory . If you find it useful for your work, please consider registering to become a regular CORE Observatory user and to receive the CBRA Monthly Newsletter!

On behalf of the whole CBRA-team – Sangeeta, Susana, Susan, Phan Hien, Toni, Vladlen, Duayner, Perttu, Matti, Ari-Pekka, Ninoslav, Peter, Andrew, Harri x 2, and David x 2 (https://www.cross-border.org/team/ ) – I would like to wish you the best of success for the year 2016, in your professional as well as private life. In the context of global supply chains, we are ready to work with you towards faster and more predictable global logistics, naturally combined with low crime rates and with high compliance rates. One great tool to support such “common industry-government-academia global supply chain mission” is our new media platform – the recently launched FP7-CORE Information Observatory, which you can find at: https://www.cross-border.org/core-observatory/core-observatory-full-list/

CORE Observatory gives you 10-20 regular reviews and updates per month on supply chain security and trade facilitation policies, regulations, standards, good practices, roadmaps, research papers etc. – for the benefit of FP7-CORE partners, and beyond. Our primary focus is currently on European Union and its main trading partners – global expansion is possible later, depending on user needs and priorities. Each CORE Observatory entry has a title and a summary, visible to every user. At the end of the summary we provide a URL for the source document, whenever an electronic version is available in public domain. Starting 1 January 2016, the title and summary are also translated to Spanish. New languages (e.g. French, Arabic or Russian) may be offered later in 2016 depending on user preferences. The full review text is available only for the registered users, who will also receive the CBRA Monthly Newsletter, tailored to their personal information needs and interests. The CORE Observatory entries are listed in chronological order, the latest entry appearing on the top of the list. Any user – registered or not – can search CORE Observatory entries either via pre-defined keywords and tags (most common ones listed on the right side of the web page), or via free text search.

Again, Happy New Year 2016 everyone – and looking forward to having many new visitors at the FP7-CORE Information Observatory!

Yours, Juha

Welcome back!

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cbra_blog_post_061215CBRA blog is back on-line after a couple of months of hard work renewing our website. We have put a particular effort to establish the “CORE Information Observatory” – a new service for continuous monitoring of key policies, regulations and studies in supply chain security management and in global trade facilitation.

We have now separated CBRA Blog and CBRA Interviews into two different sections on our website.  We hope you will find the new website easy to use and the information valuable to your needs! We also welcome you to register at the new website – as a benefit you will have full access to all Observatory content, and you will receive monthly emails summarizing the new content linked to your personal preferences.

As a new, much asked feature, we introduce now Spanish as our second language. We have already translated all key content on the CBRA activities, teams, partners, list of projects etc. as well as Blog and Interview titles.  We also aim to translate the titles and summaries of all new entries in CORE Observatory, Blogs and Interviews. Of course all will depend on how many Spanish speaking readers we will be getting during the coming months. We will also consider introducing a third language early 2016 – again depending on the needs and preferences of our global community.

Today, 6.12.2015 – which happens to be the independence day of my home country Finland – I wish all readers a relaxing Sunday, and look forward to seeing many registrations coming through and to receiving lots of feedback on your interests and needs.

Greetings from foggy Switzerland, Juha

PS. Please check also today’s interview with Mr. Greg Schlegel, the founder of the Supply Chain Risk Management Consortium.

CWIT & COP @ Geneva (1/2)

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