Features, analysis, and case studies on supply chain financial systems for management, procurement and asset planning including banking, credit, insurance, payment and auditing.
Supply chains are changing and becoming more fragmented. There’s another big change coming: inflation. The maturation of multiple middle class economies across the world has already begun to drive competition for resources. COVID provides a lull before the storm; in a year…
While confronting the challenges posed by the current global pandemic, logistics managers continue to work on expediting everything from the smallest parts to finished products in order to meet market demand. Meanwhile, some supply chains need to be slowed in response to the…
Tuesday, May 12, 2020 · Kai Hoberg and Knut Alicke
For many supply chain executives, the Financial Crisis was one of the toughest challenges of their careers. Firms across industries were required to deal with huge demand-supply mismatches caused by collapsing demand. However, the supply chain community found innovative ways…
While the phase one signing ceremony between the U.S. and China is behind us, there's still a tremendous amount of uncertainty, especially for U.S. shippers.
The largest companies in the U.S. collected cash from customers faster in 2018 and held less inventory, resulting in the best overall working capital performance since 2012, according to the annual Hackett 1000 cost and cash optimization survey from The Hackett Group, Inc.
Monday, July 8, 2019 · Greg Douglass and Vikrant Viniak
Given their strategic role in an organization, supply chain leaders can do more to proactively drive change and growth, in addition to leading cost cutting initiatives.
In its “U.S. Economic Forecast Flash,” IHS Markit analysts note that first-quarter GDP growth was impressive, but cautions supply chain managers to remain on guard.
New research from DHL Supply Chain, the world's leading logistics company, indicates that three out of four businesses believe that spending time and resources to improve their transportation will directly impact sales – and 83 percent are willing to pay more for better…
Strength in employment and income, solid gains in household net worth and elevated consumer sentiment have generated considerable momentum just as tariffs on some $200 billion of imports from China have gone into effect.
The risk of a “no deal” Brexit is on the rise. Reflecting the tougher outlook, IHS Markit has reduced eurozone real GDP growth rates in 2019–21 by an average 0.2 percentage point a year. The eurozone economy is projected to expand 2.0% in 2018, 1.6% in 2019, and 1.3% in…
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