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For Peace of Mind, Know Your Supplier’s Financial Stability
Consider these three steps as a guideline.
A financial analyst at work. Photo: Bloomberg.
How E-Commerce Became Crucial to Retail Survival
While overall retail sales are expected to drop more than 10% this year, e-commerce will jump an unprecedented 18%.
0716 How E Commerce Became Crucial
The Importance of Last-Mile Visibility in the U.S.
In order to stay competitive in the rising e-commerce and mobile world, retailers will need to make continued investments in their final-mile strategies.
FedEx Corp. couriers unload packages from a delivery truck. Photo: Bloomberg.
Four Post-Pandemic Lessons for E-Commerce Supply Chains
The first and most obvious lesson has been to diversify product sourcing across different countries.
0715 Lessonsfor E Commerce
Building, Not Breaking, the Supply-Chain Backbone
Supply chains are having a moment. It took a major transformative event to highlight the importance and fragility of the global and interdependent supply-chain network.
How CIOs Can Limit the Risk of Outsourcing I.T.
Businesses are increasingly turning over their information technology functions to outside service providers.
0714 How Ci Os Limit Risk
How Supply Chains Can Weather the Next Pandemic Wave
The key to mitigating abrupt and unexpected disruptions in any company’s global supply chain is timely, actionable information.
Photo: Bloomberg
When Will U.S. and Global Oil Markets Recover?
The coronavirus pandemic, declining global consumption and overproduction have combined to deal a severe blow to the oil industry.
Oil drums containing lubricant oil sit on a conveyor belt as they are prepared for shipping at the Royal Dutch Shell Plc lubricants blending plant in Torzhok, Russia. Photo: Bloomberg.
Ensuring Predictable Wireless Connectivity in Supply-Chain Centers
For the last decade or more, “wireless” in supply chain meant two things: Wi-Fi or a public cellular network. Those were simply the only two options available to any business. But that circumstance has changed.
Realizing the Benefits of the ‘New EDI’
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the acute vulnerability of hitherto reliable business practices to profound economic shocks.
0710 The New Edi
How Wireless Power Is Transforming Manufacturing
As IIoT technologies become increasingly commonplace, manufacturers are turning to long-range wireless charging.
0713 Wireless Power
Why Cargo Monitoring Is Critical in a Time of Crisis and Beyond
As businesses reel from COVID-19, cargo thieves and cybercriminals are exploiting the chaos.
Source: Bloomberg
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