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When Micro Supply Chain Frictions Create Major Payment Bottlenecks

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While the payment method is far from efficient — paper requires manual data entry, expanding the risk of mistakes and fraud and taking up valuable time — it’s often the actions before the actual act of payment bogging up cash flow. Putting payments in context is essential to smooth supply chain operations, he said.

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Cosmetics Brand Natura Exposes Customer Data

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in January accidentally exposed personal information about 250,000 of its customers that could have been accessed by anyone, The Hacker News reported. based in Sao Paulo, inadvertently left hundreds of gigabytes of its customers’ personal and payment-related information publicly available online. Natura & Co.