Consolidation in the global container shipping industry in recent years has been the key factor behind improved supply discipline. Ocean cargo carriers’financial performance has been improving as a result.
Hong Kong has witnessed the gradual erosion of its civil liberties and a once-thriving entrepot. At the same time, it has failed to invest in the port technology essential to keeping its world class status.
When the Port of Los Angeles stages its annual “State of the Port” address on January 14, supply chain managers will be given more details on 2020 container throughput at the nation’s largest ocean cargo gateway, as well as what LA has determined as its 2021 priorities.
Wednesday, January 6, 2021 · Gary Forger, Special Projects Editor
COVID brought a spike in e-commerce annual growth. The challenge now is to manage that explosion in the near term without over investing before the new normal, because we aren’t going back.
Wednesday, January 6, 2021 · Mike Doherty and Kimberley Kirton
Change is hard for any organization. But Princess Auto, a nearly 90-year-old Canadian hard goods retailer, changed its collective thinking and brought a new level of efficiency to its inventory planning and how product flows to its customers.
Here’s how S&OP became a business star at the Consumer Health division of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany by putting people first with an under-the-radar strategy. If that sounds inverted, it is. But it’s not counterintuitive.
The Biden-Harris transition website posts Biden’s policy for U.S. manufacturing and for addressing supply chain shortages due to Covid19. But can we take what is written at face value?
The United Nations designated December 2nd as its International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, a reminder for those responsible for supply chains to take action to ensure freedom from any slavery practices. Eradicating slavery should be done to protect a company's…
After enduring its deepest recession in 74 years in 2020, the global economy is expected to rebound in 2021, according to the annual Top-10 Economic Predictions released recently by IHS Markit.
Most product adoption curves follow S-Curve patterns of various diffusion shapes, driven by enabling technology, relative utility vs. cost, availability and supporting ecosystems. Occasionally however, real shocks accelerate the process dramatically, leading to a steep change,…
Early in the COVID crisis, companies just froze up and lean supply chains’ risks were dramatically exposed. Price became almost meaningless in the face of severe shortages of key inputs.
No serious discussion of humanitarian supply chains can take place before acknowledging The Sovereign Order of Malta – one of the oldest institutions of Western and Christian civilization.
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