Sticking to major themes echoed in its previous edition in December, the May edition of the Institute for Supply Management's (ISM) Spring 2017 Semiannual Economic Forecast is pointing to continued growth in both the manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors.
A leading supply chain management company has launched a Cloud platform for trading, treasury and risk mitigation. According to spokesmen for OpenLink, energy, commodities, corporate and financial services industries will be among those to first use OpenLink Cloud.
Windows will stop supporting its mobile operating system in 2020, leaving devices vulnerable to attack. While that may seem like a lifetime away, savvy DC operators need to develop a migration plan.
The NRF reported that April retail sales, excluding automobiles, gas stations, and restaurants, saw a 0.3 percent seasonally-adjusted increase over March, and were up 3 percent on an unadjusted annual basis, and the Department of Commerce reported a 0.4 percent increase from…
RapidRatings, provider of analysis of the financial health of public and private companies in the world, and Opus, a leader in compliance and risk management SaaS technology, recently announced a strategic partnership and the integration of predictive financial health…
Supply chain managers are being told that three of the most pressing risks to business performance in the 21st century are cyber attack, natural hazards and supply chain failure.
New cloud trade and transportation management capabilities help organizations modernize logistics processes, increase perfect order performance and lower supply chain costs. Oracle Cloud Software
The MIT master's program in supply chain management has been ranked as the world's No. 1 graduate business program in supply chain and logistics by Eduniversal, the Paris-based global rating agency for higher education.
AWESOME (Achieving Women's Excellence in Supply Chain Operations, Management and Education) has presented the AWESOME Legendary Leadership (ALL) Award to two highly accomplished supply chain leaders
The index ISM uses to measure non-manufacturing growth—known as the NMI—came in at 57.5, which topped March's 55.2 while growing for the 88th consecutive month. And the NMI is 1.9 percent above the 12-month average of 55.6 and at its highest level going back to…
The April PMI fell 2.4 percent in April to 54.8. Despite the decline, the PMI has indicated growth for the last eight consecutive months, and it is up 1.2 percent compared to the 12-month average of 53.6.
While much transportation trade press attention has been given to the predicted purchase of Hamburg Sud by Maersk, the Danish mega carrier has been quietly negotiating a deal with another legendary giant in the information technology sector.
According to a global survey of CIOs by Gartner, Inc., top-performing organizations in the private and public sectors, on average, spend a greater proportion of their IT budgets on digital initiatives (33 percent) than government organizations (21 percent).
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