Saturday, August 6, 2016 · Patrick Burnson
While many managers feared that post-Brexit anxiety would erode consumer confidence, global markets continue to grow with existing trade agreements taking hold. Will free market forces simply prevail without any new ones?
Friday, August 5, 2016 · Andrew Lubin
Best-selling author Sebastian Junger's newest book Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging, has been published at a most appropriate time.
Friday, August 5, 2016 · Patrick Burnson
Today's corporate directors have a broad view of risk oversight as a responsibility for the whole organization, says Dennis Chesley, PwC's risk consulting leader for the America and Asia Pacific. Indeed, seven years after the financial crisis, roughly half of all…
Thursday, August 4, 2016 · Patrick Burnson
The use of outsourcing is steadily increasing, driving a growing need for the sharing of risk and performance reporting between outsource service providers and customers.
Wednesday, August 3, 2016 · Xiaojia Chen and Shanglin Tsai
Studies on trucking freight mode selection usually focus on full truckload (TL) vs less-than-truckload (LTL). In recent years a variant of full truckload called multiple stop truckload (MSTL or multi-stop) has gained prominence as a potential cost-saving measure.
Monday, August 1, 2016 · Patrick Burnson
According to new research report published by Allied Market Research, titled the global third party logistics market is expected to reach $1,110 billion, registering a CAGR of 5.16% during the forecast period 2016-2022.
Monday, August 1, 2016 · Michael Gravier
Supply chains are showing an increasingly worrying trend – companies opt to take short cuts rather than make themselves better, sometimes in spectacular fashion.
Monday, August 1, 2016 · Jeff Berman
Even with a slight decline from June, manufacturing growth remained intact in July to kick off the second half of 2016, according to the most recent edition of the Manufacturing Report on Business released today by the Institute for Supply Management (ISM).
Monday, August 1, 2016 · Joe Zito
Service levels are low and the sales force “complains” that customers are moving business elsewhere. Pressure is put on the Supply Chain group to provide some relief, so they work with sales to increase forecasts, adjust inventory planning parameters to hold additional…
Wednesday, July 27, 2016 · Andrew Lubin
It's been 36 days since Great Britain, the world's 5th largest economy, voluntarily withdrew from the world community. Now that the sound and fury surrounding the surprise result has abated, what can the world expect?
Tuesday, July 26, 2016 · Patrick Burnson
The IATA-FIATA Air Cargo Program (IFACP) moves decision-making on the rules governing the airline-forwarder relationship away from an airline-led conference to a governance body jointly managed by forwarders and airlines.
Tuesday, July 26, 2016 · Patrick Burnson
Extreme wet or dry conditions can affect buildings, machinery, data centers, transportation networks, supply chains, people and sales.
Monday, July 25, 2016 · Patrick Burnson
The nation's supply chain managers U.S. businesses in many regions should start preparing now for the increased, extreme rainfall that a changing climate will almost certainly deliver.
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