Thursday, January 12, 2017 · John Kloosterman and Michael Congiu
The concepts of business and human rights continue to renovate how business views its place in the world, and its relationships to its customers, markets, and the states where it has operations.
Prof. Benny Mantin has been appointed Director of the Luxembourg Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LCL), founded in December 2015 to establish Luxembourg as a world-class research and teaching hub in the field.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today announced that Northeastern University and Rutgers University have been selected as two of 18 institutions across the country to lead research on the major transportation challenges that our nation will face over the next three…
Prologis, a leading logistics real estate company, has a new paper on how demand drivers behind the fast-growing logistics real estate industry are changing and their future implications.
Overall, CBRE's outlook for the U.S. economy in 2017 is “mildly optimistic,” tempered by uncertainty about the ultimate extent and nature of the new presidential administration's policies.
The index ISM uses to measure non-manufacturing growth—known as the NMI—came in at 57.2 in December (a reading of 50 or higher indicates growth), matching November's reading, while eclipsing the 12-month average of 55.0 and remaining at its highest level over the last…
The PMI, the index used by the ISM to measure growth, came in at 54.7 in December, a 1.3 percent gain over November, as well as turning in the highest PMI reading since December 2014's 54.9. December's PMI is the highest over the last 12 months and is 3.2 percent…
Port executives in the U.S. are calling upon the new presidential administration to make good on campaign promises to invest in infrastructure. Meanwhile, domestic ocean cargo gateways are aiming to digitize their supply chain operations to accommodate larger vessels and the…
While logistics managers may expect to see fewer proposed mega-trade deals under the new administration, analysts say that there will still be new markets opening up for both U.S. imports and exports this year. Regulatory obstacles remain, however, and logistics managers will…
Fiscal second quarter earnings for transportation and logistics bellwether FedEx were a mixed bag, with the company posting revenue gains but falling short of Wall Street expectations.
A new era of procurement is upon us. As the new year approaches, the interplay of data, trends and supplier relationships will continue to elevate sourcing from a business function to a business outcome.
Commerce reported that November retail sales were up 0.1 percent over October, following a 0.6 percent (revised from 0.8 percent) increase from September to October, at $465.5 billion. And NRF reported that retail sales, excluding automobiles, gas stations, and restaurants,…
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