Dun & Bradstreet, a leading global provider of business decisioning data and analytics, recently introduced the COVID-19 Impact Index, a new resource - based on client feedback - that addresses the urgent needs of business leaders to better understand the real-time impacts…
APQC and Supply Chain Management Review collected information in April 2020 from 86 supply chain professionals about the use and planned adoption of blockchain in supply chains around the world.
The report's key metric—the PMI—at 41.5 (a reading of 50 or higher indicates growth)—declined 7.6% from March's 41.5, falling for the second straight month, which was preceded by two months of growth. The April reading was 7.5% below the 12-month average of…
As the coronavirus shutters factories in Asia, companies with pre-existing relationships outside their normal supply chain will be better positioned to weather the impending crisis.
As part of IBM's approach to combating COVID-19 with technology solutions that enable more trustworthy information, accelerated discovery, resiliency and adaptation, the company today announced IBM Rapid Supplier Connect, a blockchain-based network designed to help…
To improve the safety of transportation workers during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, supply chain leaders should implement four technology initiatives immediately, according to Gartner, Inc.
Product lifestyle management (PLM) solutions can help you to improve your processes, product, and ultimately quality. Read on to see if PLM is right for you.
Even with all the advances in technology and decades of prototypes to analyze, when it comes to successful product development planning – we still need to know the answers to the three basic “what” questions: What is missing in the current market? What are customers…
The ongoing impact of COVID-19, or coronavirus, was on full display in the declining number of United States-bound waterborne shipments, for the month of March, according to data recently issued by global trade intelligence firm Panjiva. March shipments—at 829,501—were off…
The American Logistics Aid Network (ALAN) has recently launched the ALAN Supply Chain Intelligence Center (http://alanaid.org/map), which provides a cloud-based, real-time view of the latest COVID-19 impacts via an easy-to-use map.
The food industry is undergoing significant disruption from COVID-19, as U.S. consumers increasingly have groceries delivered directly to their homes (D2C) or are buying online and picking up in store (BOPIS).
In the response to the shortages created by the COVID-19 pandemic, manufacturers of all sizes and capabilities have announced their intentions to repurpose their capacities.
Commerce reported that March retail sales—at $483.1 billion—were down 8.7% compared to February, which represents the single largest annual monthly retail sales decline going back to when this data was first tracked by Commerce in 1992.
Without any coordinated response, carriers will not always get it right when it comes to vessel deployment.
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