Tuesday, May 31, 2016 · Jeff Berman
One of the many interesting facets of the Semiannual Economic Forecast issued by the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) is its “special questions” segment featured at the end of the report.
Tuesday, May 31, 2016 · Rosemary Coates
Chinese manufacturing is maturing and low-cost, labor-intensive work is moving to other low cost countries like Vietnam, Myanmar and Indonesia while China takes on more advanced manufacturing.
Friday, May 13, 2016 · Patrick Burnson
The 2016 Industrial Manufacturing Trends Report, published by PwC, asserts that investments in technology are “essential” for the growth of the U.S.manufacturing sector. According to the report,making strategic investments isone key to growth, particularly in fast-evolving…
Monday, May 2, 2016 · Jeff Berman
Manufacturing activity in April remained on the right side of growth for the second straight month, following six months of contraction, according to the April edition of the Manufacturing Report on Business from the Institute for Supply Management (ISM).
Wednesday, April 6, 2016 · Patrick Burnson
Executives see a large gap between the current state of Digital Transformation across their extended global supply chains and what they expect to see just five years from now. These are the results of a global research study, ‘The Current and Future State of Digital Supply…
Friday, April 1, 2016 · Jeff Berman
ISM said that the PMI, its index used to measure growth, was 51.8 in March (a reading of 50 or higher indicates growth), which topped February's 49.5 by 2.3 percent.
Friday, April 1, 2016 · Patrick Burnson
The rankings also reveal a shift among the world's traditional manufacturing powerhouses due to the Asia Pacific region's rising influence and declining strength in European and BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China).
Thursday, March 24, 2016 · Patrick Burnson
With some parts of the world economy already in recession, and given the recent rise in financial volatility, worries about another global recession are on the rise, notes IHS Chief Economist, Nariman Behravesh,
Wednesday, March 23, 2016 · Patrick Burnson
Ford introduced PACE yesterday to the G7 Alliance on Resource Efficiency at its workshop in Washington, D.C., highlighting details of its best practices and addressing key environmental issues
Thursday, February 4, 2016 · Rosemary Coates
Hoverboards are new and very popular products and this combination creates a frenzy of manufacturing activity at production sites in China.
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 · Jeff Berman
The index ISM uses to measure non-manufacturing growth—known as the NMI—came in at 53.5 in January (a level of 50 or higher indicates growth), which was 2.3 percent below December, while economic activity in the non-manufacturing sector continued to grow for the 72nd month…
Monday, February 1, 2016 · Jeff Berman
The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) says that manufacturing activity again contracted for the fourth straight month.
Monday, February 1, 2016 · Tony Cragg and Tom McNamara
Companies such as Wal-Mart, Nike and Dell led the way in using technology to optimize the integration of materials movement between firms. Flows of information served to improve physical flows.
Thursday, January 28, 2016 · Patrick Burnson
Supply Chain managers may expect more of the same when the next Manufacturing ISM Report On Business featuring the January 2016 data will be released on Monday, February 1.
Tuesday, January 5, 2016 · Patrick Van den Bossche and Pramod Gupta
While some have criticized the Index's conclusions, the authors counter that it is the result of in-depth macroeconomic analyses, not a survey.
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