Falling commodity prices have made businesses look good and given business leaders a false peace, but looming currency wars may prove to be the disruptor that ignites a new round of commodity volatility.
Samsung's recent Galaxy Note battery fiasco—in the aftermath of the huge Takata airbag and Volkswagen emissions scandals—really highlights the one thing that no company should ever do when confronted by earth-shaking bad news: don't panic!
Xeneta tracks actual container rates of 20', 40' and hi-cube boxes on some 60,000+ shipping lanes worldwide, thereby enabling their clients to use the rate information to make informed decisions in both their spot and contract rate negotiations.
While 42.1 percent of respondents to a recent Deloitte poll expect government agency scrutiny of product safety to increase through 2017, just 15.1 percent are fully prepared to manage a product safety or quality crisis.
Global commercial real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield released its latest U.S. Macro Forecast, confirming that the economy weathered rough headwinds in the first half of 2016.
World-class procurement organizations are nearly twice as likely to have talent retention planning in place, and see turnover rates that are more than 50 percent lower than typical companies
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