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How to Manage Cross-Border E-Commerce Costs to Booming Latin American Market

Latin America's e-commerce market offers great potential for international retailers, but comes with a complex, cross-border learning curve.

Carbon-Reduction As a Competitive Advantage: Look to Your Supply Chain

Businesses now find themselves confronting an inevitability: that the health of their bottom and top lines depends on how adeptly they manage the costs associated with the overall environmental impact of their products, services and actions.

Smoke rises from cooling towers at a power station. Photo: Getty Images.

Supply Chain Crisis Is Especially Detrimental to Middle America

Amid ongoing supply chain issues, how can companies — midwestern and otherwise — take on disruptions and mitigate risk?

The Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri. Photo: Getty Images.

Automakers to Battle Chip Crisis for Years, Report Says

Carmakers like Volkswagen and General Motors should brace for the global semiconductor shortage to last beyond next year and redesign cars so they need fewer of the high-tech components, according to analysts.

An employee displays a 300mm silicon wafer. Photo: Bloomberg.

Supply Chain Hell Ignites Economic Boom Along U.S.-Mexico Border

Wedged up against the southern edge of the Rio Grande, the sprawling desert city of Juarez has seen its share of economic booms over the years. But perhaps none quite like the one that’s taken hold today.

At the TSC Miami factory in Juarez, Mexico, workers design and print T-shirts. Photo: Bloomberg.

Watch: Lessons to Be Learned From the Microchip Shortage

Bill Currence, president and managing partner of Cornerstone Consulting Organization, discusses the factors that are both beyond and within the control of manufacturers suffering through the current supply chain crisis.

Lessons to Be Learned From the Microchip Shortage

How Cloud Analytics Can Speed Up Digital Supply Chain Transformation

While the COVID-19 pandemic has rattled supply chains around the world, it has also been a boon for the adoption of cloud analytics.

How a Translator Helps With International Supply Chain Contract Negotiations

When building a supply chain, it’s almost inevitable that businesses will look overseas. That often means dealing and negotiating with foreign languages.

Vanishing Ships Underscore Supply Woe: Crisis Peak Is a Mirage

A line of more than 80 container ships waiting to dock at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, California, was cut in half in late November — or so it seemed. Turns out the vessels disappearing from the queue were merely hiding from it, loitering in the Pacific out of reach of the official count.

Container ships berthed at the Port of Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California. Photo: Bloomberg.

Establishing an Ethical Supply Chain Is a Business Imperative

More than 80% of Americans feel strongly about shopping for products that are ethically and sustainably sourced, research shows.

Rice, oats and other grains at a waste-free market. Photo: Anna Tarazevich/ Pexels.

Yellen Says Supply Chain Shift May Need Protectionist-Like Steps

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that U.S. reliance on foreign supply chains has proved a vulnerability and that the country needs to produce more critical goods domestically in order to protect both its economic and national security.

Janet Yellen, U.S. Treasury secretary, listens during a House Financial Committee hearing in Washington, D.C. Photo: Bloomberg.

The World's Relentless Demand for Chips Turns Deadly in Malaysia

The tragedy in Muar shows the little-understood human cost of keeping supply chains running in a pandemic.

STMicroelectronics STM32F205 integrated circuit microchips (IC's) in a storage tray. Photo: Bloomberg.

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