A recent survey done by one prominent search firm indicates that demand for supply chain professionals in manufacturing and retail have “gone through the roof.”
Supply chain organizations are searching for ways to reduce procurement cost. APQC's research shows that organizations have the largest group of their procurement full time employees assigned to ordering materials and services.
The industrial real estate market remains in a strong position for various reasons, according to the Second Quarter Industrial Outlook report from commercial real estate firm JLL.
Oracle said this week it has acquired LogFire, an Atlanta-based provider of Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud-based, Warehouse Management Systems in an effort to complement its Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud suite.
The index ISM uses to measure non-manufacturing growth—known as the NMI—was 51.4 (a level of 50 or higher indicates growth) in August, which was down 4.1 percent from July.
Rick Mettetel, vice president, global forwarding for C.H. Robinson, recently shared insights with our readers on current state of third party logistics.
The PMI, the index used by the ISM to measure growth, was 49.4 in August, which was down 3.2% compared to July for its first decline going back to February's 49.5. August's PMI is 0.8% below the 12-month average of 50.2. And the ISM said that the over all economy…
The 2016 Global Cold Chain Alliance (GCCA) Global Cold Storage Capacity Report showed that cold storage capacity has experienced steady growth since 2014, the last time the survey was conducted.
The 3PL arena is booming. But what does that mean for today's supply chain manager. C. John Langley Jr., Ph.D., who serves as a director of development at the Center for Supply Chain Research at the Smeal College of Business at Pennsylvania State University shares his…
FM Global, one of the world's largest commercial and industrial property insurers, today broke ground on the construction of a new loss prevention training and operations center, located in the Singapore Science Park
EY Climate Change and Sustainability Services recently collaborated with the UN Global Compact on the study in an effort to better understand how companies are managing their supply chains in ways that support the objectives of the United Nations 2030 Agenda and Sustainable…
Declining freight volumes and reconfigured container vessel deployments may give Asia's ports time to regroup, say industry analysts, who add that investment in infrastructure is badly needed.
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