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Localizing Your Supply Chain? Consider These Four Tips

Many organizations are shifting to localized sourcing, to overcome the delays and barriers that have emerged during the pandemic.

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Broken Supply Chains Threaten Ruin at a Growing Number of Small Firms

A growing cohort of smaller companies that survived the cold depths of the pandemic say now they’re in danger because the economy is too hot.

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Four Reasons to Digitize Your Direct Spend Procurement Processes

Many organizations overlook the vast benefits that direct spend digitization offers to a company’s processes and bottom line.

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Watch: How the Current Crisis Will Change Retail Supply Chains Forever

Howard Meitiner, managing director with Carl Marks Advisors, explains why the current congestion and challenges being experienced by retail supply chains aren’t going away anytime soon — in fact, they’re likely to permanently change the sector.

How the Current Crisis Will Change Retail Supply Chains Forever

How AI Could Solve the Supply Chain Crisis

Artificial intelligence, combined with other technologies and innovations, could bring about some long-lasting improvement across the entire supply chain, from the factory floor to the retail shelf. Here are some scenarios.

Coffee Supply Crisis Means More Expensive, Bitter Tasting Brews

Coffee snobs have a lot to worry about right now. A global shortage of beans is already threatening to push up prices at cafes and supermarkets. Now, your morning cappuccino or latte might start leaving a bitter taste for other reasons too.

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Podcast | Leaving China Isn’t As Easy As You Think

Think it will be difficult to bring back manufacturing to the United States? Getting out of China isn’t so easy either.

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Global Food Prices to Stay High on Labor Crunch, Cargill CEO Says

Food prices will likely stay elevated in 2022 as disruptions to the global supply chain are set to persist, according to the head of Cargill, who highlighted labor shortages as one of the biggest risks facing the industry.

A gantry crane loads a shipping container filled with corn for export from a grain terminal operated by Cargill Inc. Photo: Bloomberg.

U.S. Aims to Begin New Asia Framework in 2022, Raimondo Says

The U.S. intends to initiate a new economic framework for the Indo-Pacific in 2022, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said, as the Biden administration aims to reinvigorate America’s standing in the region.

Gina Raimondo, U.S. commerce secretary, speaks during an event in Washington, D.C. Photo: Bloomberg.

Foldable Shipping Containers? New Design Seen as Cure for Logjams

Few tools of the global economy have survived without major innovations as long as the shipping container. The supply ructions around the world are presenting an opportunity to test that incumbency.

Foldable Containers

White House Spurns Intel Plan to Boost Chip Production in China

The Biden administration spurned a plan by Intel Corp. to increase production in China over security concerns, dealing a setback to an idea pitched as a fix for U.S. chip shortages.

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Podcast | Are U.S. Manufacturers Making a U-Turn on Reshoring Plans?

It wasn’t too long ago that we began seeing signs of a return of manufacturing from China back to the U.S. Has someone flipped the script?

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