Thursday, February 16, 2017 · SCMR Staff
This webcast explores how Supply Chain Frameworks are being used to oversee and guide planning and operations.
Wednesday, February 15, 2017 · Jeff Berman
January imports were up 5.4 percent annually at 929,970, topping December's 928,535 on a sequential basis. This marked the seventh consecutive month of growth, according to Panjiva data.
Tuesday, February 14, 2017 · Patrick Burnson
Just as it promised at last year's annual Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle is expanding its Internet of Things (IoT) portfolio with four new cloud solutions to help businesses fully utilize the benefits of digital supply chains.
Tuesday, February 14, 2017 · Patrick Burnson
Analysts for Frontier Strategy Group (FSG) – an information and advisory services firm for emerging market executives – expect a slight improvement in global expansion in 2017.
Thursday, February 9, 2017 · Jeff Berman
The NRF is calling for 2017 retail sales, excluding automobiles, gasoline stations, and restaurants, to see an annual gain between 3.7 and 4.2 percent, with online and other non-store/online sales (which NRF includes in its over all number) to head up between 8 and 12 percent.
Wednesday, February 8, 2017 · Michael Gravier
As the re-shoring trend continues to build steam due to Trump's emphasis to bring manufacturing back to America, the spotlight will be on supply chain managers to increase transparency.
Wednesday, February 8, 2017 · Patrick Burnson
A recent report released by Resilinc, a California-based cloud provider of supply chain resilience and risk management intelligence and analytics, has special relevance for supply chain managers evaluating “near-shoring.”
Thursday, February 2, 2017 · Patrick Burnson
In a new “manufacturing outlook” report focusing on the automotive and industrial sectors, AlixPartners observes that many of the labor-cost advantages associated with near-shoring may be lost if companies fail to spend more on automation in the future.
Wednesday, February 1, 2017 · Jeff Berman
The January PMI, the index used by the ISM to measure growth, was up 1.5 percent over December at 56.0 (a reading of 50 or higher indicates growth) and its highest reading since November 2014's 57.6.
Wednesday, February 1, 2017 · Patrick Burnson
ProcureCon's Annual CPO Study released today indicates that procurement is looking forward to greater levels of automation, Big Data utilization, and more internal client-friendly sourcing tools.
Tuesday, January 31, 2017 · Patrick Burnson
When President Trump fulfilled his campaign promise to pull the U.S. out of the proposed Transpacific Trade Partnership (TPP), many trade analysts expressed stronger support of existing ASEAN relationships.
Tuesday, January 31, 2017 · Patrick Burnson
While most of the world withdraws inward, Southeast Asia is practicing effective cooperation between the state and private sectors to improve its logistics infrastructure and services to attract even more multi-national interest.
Monday, January 30, 2017 · Patrick Burnson
After a disappointing 2016 in automation sales, declining revenues for many equipment suppliers and investment uncertainties in numerous end markets, vendors in industrial automation are hoping for a brighter 2017, contend manufacturing technology analysts.
Monday, January 30, 2017 · Rosemary Coates
After working in the industry for nearly 30 years, I see supply chains analogies in everything I do. Attending the Women's March on Washington last week was no exception.
Tuesday, January 24, 2017 · Becky Partida, APQC
Supply chain functions are using benchmarking for decision making, but can do more to track its impact. APQC's research shows that supply chain functions tend to be ahead of other functions with regard to using benchmarking to drive business decision.
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