Tuesday, February 5, 2013 · SCMR Staff
Diesel prices shot up nearly 10 cents to $4.022 this week, according to the Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration (EIA).
Monday, February 4, 2013 · Bridget McCrea
The outlook for logistics and supply chain professionals is as good as it’s been in years. And for those individuals that have the academic credentials to go with their experience, the picture is even brighter.
Friday, February 1, 2013 · Jeff Berman
The PMI, the index used by the ISM to measure manufacturing activity, was 53.1 in January, which tops December by 2.9 percent.
Thursday, January 31, 2013 · Jeff Berman
Transportation and parcel bellwether UPS reported today that fourth quarter revenue increased 2.3 percent annually to a record $14.57 billion, and adjusted operating profit saw a 41 percent gain to record $2.05 billion.
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 · Patrick Burnson
The latest results on supply chain and operations from PwC’s 16th Annual Global CEO Survey, suggest that U.S.-based CEOs remain reluctant to abandon cost-cutting until the economy shows further signs of strengthening.
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 · Patrick Burnson
San Francisco-based Prologis, Inc. a global owner, operator and developer of industrial real estate, announced its inclusion in the 2013 “Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World” list at the recently-concluded World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 · Patrick Burnson
While the use of highly scaled, shared, and automated IT platforms—known as cloud computing—is growing rapidly, the advance is technology is not without its skeptics.
Friday, January 25, 2013 · Charlie Tanner
The skill sets required to manage global supply chains today are not the same as they were 20, or even 10 years ago. And they will be different from the ones required in 2010. It’s almost impossible to precisely predict what leadership capabilities will be needed going…
Friday, January 25, 2013 · Charlie Tanner
How can you make strategic supply chain decisions faster and more effectively? For HP, one answer lies in a technique called Geographic Analytics—the visualization of network information on a map in order to drive supply chain optimization. Flexible, transparent, and…
Friday, January 25, 2013 · Charlie Tanner
The supply chain discipline is replete with rules that most managers live by. But in certain cases, true innovation and breakthroughs come only when those conventional rules are broken. By clearly understanding the nature of the rules and the details of your supply chain, you…
Tuesday, January 22, 2013 · Rosemary Coates
We are globalizing far faster than we realize. As supply chain professionals, we move goods everywhere and understand bits of culture and how countries work.
Monday, January 21, 2013 · Patrick Burnson
The unconventional oil and gas revolution has dramatically changed the global energy landscape, and in its wake is altering the world’s competitive manufacturing and industrial panorama, according to a new report from IHS, a leading source of global information and analytics.
Sunday, January 20, 2013 · Charlie Tanner
The key question that supply chain professionals are asking these days is, What can we do to maximize the ROI from our technology investment? This article provides some practical answers from the experts.
Thursday, January 10, 2013 · Charlie Tanner
More than 20 million children worldwide suffer from severe acute malnutrition. The situation is especially critical in the Horn of Africa and UNICEF is effectively responding to that humanitarian challenge by providing specially formulated “therapeutic” foods to those in…
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