Monday, April 20, 2015 · SCMR Staff
Despite great opportunity for growth, the logistics market in Latin America is lagging behind other emerging markets thanks in part to its notoriety for corruption, violence, poor infrastructure and government bureaucracy.
Wednesday, April 15, 2015 · Patrick Burnson
In terms of regional trade, Cuba’s removal will have almost no implications, as the majority of Cuba’s partners in the Latin America and Caribbean region are already openly doing business with Cuba.
Wednesday, April 15, 2015 · SCMR Staff
While keeping customers content is clearly responsibility number one, the objective for every business is turning a profit
Tuesday, April 14, 2015 · Patrick Burnson
Container lines must accelerate their internal-transformation efforts and extract more value from their alliances in order to restore profitability, according to a new report by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG).
Tuesday, April 14, 2015 · Patrick Burnson
Mexico jumped to 17th place in the consultancy’s ranking this year, indicating that the North American Free Trade Agreement is trending upward.
Monday, April 13, 2015 · SCMR Staff
The MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (CTL) invites readers to participate in a short survey regarding Supply Chain Visibility in their organizations.
Sunday, April 12, 2015 · Gregory Hartunian
With Service Level-Driven Planning, organizations can find their inventory sweet spot. Here are the steps to get it right.
Friday, April 10, 2015 · Jeff Berman
March shipments came in at 988,065, which easily eclipsed February by 24 percent, as well as March 2014 by 19 percent. Panjiva said total first quarter shipments at 2,580,899 were 4 percent ahead of the first quarter of 2014.
Tuesday, April 7, 2015 · Patrick Burnson
For more than a decade, Supply Chain Management readers have recognized the Gartner Top 25 ranking as the industry standard for measuring supply chain leadership.
Tuesday, April 7, 2015 · Patrick Burnson
While “modest” growth for 2015 is forecasted by most air cargo industry insiders, Wilmington, Ohio-based freighter lessor Air Transport Services Group (ATSG) is far more bullish.
Tuesday, April 7, 2015 · Patrick Burnson
Despite Kraft’s Blue Box recall last month it the food giant went ahead with its announcement that it would be merging with Heinz – thereby making the Kraft Heinz Company the fifth largest food and beverage company in the world, third in the U.S.
Monday, April 6, 2015 · SCMR Staff
The index ISM uses to measure non-manufacturing growth—known as the NMI—was 56.5 in March, which was 0.4 percent below March and also 0.6 percent below of the 12-month average of 57.1. Economic activity in the non-manufacturing sector has grown for the last 62 months,…
Monday, April 6, 2015 · SCMR Staff
Supply chain management (SCM) researchers at Software Advice have have recently published a report ranking the top 15 undergraduate and graduate SCM programs in the United States based on their technology offerings.
Monday, April 6, 2015 · Sigi Osagie
Globalization, risk management, and the quest for talent are just a few of the challenges confronting supply chain managers in the coming years.
Thursday, April 2, 2015 · Patrick Burnson
Port officials said most ships are in-and-out of Oakland within two days.
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