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How Delphi Automotive Got Real With Its Suppliers

"New business reality." That's an apt way to describe the position of any company that has just emerged from four years of reorganization under Chapter 11 of U.S. bankruptcy law. And it's precisely the challenge that Delphi Automotive faced back in 2009, when it sought to reinvent itself and shore up relations with an army of suppliers.

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The Teamsters Are Still Targeting Independent Truckers

The U.S. Supreme Court last month drove two more nails into the coffin of port efforts to impose local rules on drayage operators, in violation of interstate commerce law. The court ruled unanimously that the Port of Los Angeles could not require drayage companies to display placards on their trucks that included a phone number for reporting concerns about their operations. It also could not mandate the development of off-street parking plans for harbor vehicles.

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Just How Much Inventory Is Out There, Anyway?

Hamish Brewer, chief executive officer of JDA Software, was giving a speech at the Economic Club of Phoenix last year, when the topic of global inventory levels came up. The question he posed: How much stuff is currently in transit or socked away in warehouses the world over? The answer: Nobody really knows.

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Is the President's National Export Initiative a Dud?

It's been more than three years since the Obama Administration launched its National Export Initiative (NEI), with much ballyhoo. The stated goal of the massive effort was to double U.S. exports within five years - from $1.57tr in 2009 to a projected $3.14tn in 2015.

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How Supply Chain Became the 'Truth-Teller' at Johnson & Johnson

Eight p.m. in the "war room" of Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems: 150 people from all over the world are on a conference call. The topic is a supply outage of trocars, a medical device used in microscopic surgery. Someone on the line, clearly untroubled by the crisis, speaks up. "It's just a trocar," he says.

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The Re-shoring Debate: Sentiment or Hard Numbers?

As manufacturers consider shifting production from China back to the West, the U.S. could become an economically viable alternative faster than you think.

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Who Cares About Conditions in Overseas Factories?

On March 25, 1911, fire swept through the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York City. One hundred and forty-six garment workers perished in the blaze, many of them trapped in the building because management had locked the exit doors. The youngest of the victims were 14. It was a horrifying tragedy, not atypical of working conditions during the so-called Progressive Era. Can we not, however, take comfort in knowing that those times are far behind us?

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SEC's New Rule on Conflict Minerals: Clarity and Confusion

The fog is beginning to clear. High-tech and other types of manufacturers are getting a better idea of what they must do in order to conform to new requirements for disclosing the presence in their products of conflict minerals from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and neighboring states. Still, a number of questions remain unanswered.

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Can Index-Linked Contracts Bring Sanity to the Liner Trades?

On October 13, 2011, the Federal Maritime Commission launched a rulemaking that proposed to allow rate levels within oceangoing service contracts to be linked to industry freight indices. Some carriers and shippers had pushed for the change in hopes of achieving greater rate stability in the notoriously uncertain liner trades.

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Why Cybersecurity Is a Supply-Chain Problem

Collaboration is the solution for just about every aspect of supply-chain management except one: cybersecurity. Then it becomes the problem.

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How You Can - and Must - Enhance Your Cybersecurity Program

Somebody wants your company's secrets. And there's an excellent chance that they'll succeed in getting them.

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Competition Analysis is one of the Best Paid Search Advertising Strategies

Paid search advertisers need to have a good understanding of pay per click and campaign management in order to succeed in the world of online marketing.

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