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Three Ways to Maximize Third-Party Contractor Performance

A skilled servicer can help companies increase satisfaction, organizational bandwidth and brand reputation by ensuring prompt administration in times of peak demand.

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These Three Actions Are Critical to Future Supply Chains, Gartner Says

The research company identified three main actions that supply chain leaders can take to improve today’s most pressing issues: disruption, climate change and employee fatigue.

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How RFx Software Can Help Boost Sales Amid Labor Shortage

Employers are in desperate need of workers to help streamline order requests, secure new business and increase overall revenue.

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Where Tech Outpaces People in Supply Chains: Four Examples

Technology can help mitigate some of the most common human errors in supply chain management.

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Transforming Modern Manufacturing With Visual Communication and Collaboration

To secure a positive future for manufacturing, industry leaders must identify how to thrive during unstable times.

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People Vs. Tech: Where Supply Chains Most Rely on Each

As the role of technology continues to evolve in the supply chain, where does human expertise fit into the equation?

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‘People Are Hoarding’: Food Shortages Are The Next Supply Chain Crunch

There’s plenty of food. There just isn’t enough processing and transportation capacity to meet rising demand as the economy revs up.

A Walmart Inc. shopper walks by empty shelves. Photo: Bloomberg.

Music, Barbecues, Wi-Fi: Managing Morale for Those Idled at Sea

With many of the world’s 400,000 merchant mariners still struggling to take time off and go home, seafarer fatigue remains a problem heading into the second holiday season of the pandemic.

Container ships moored off the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports in Long Beach, California. Photo: Bloomberg.

U.S. Labor Unions Are Having a Moment

U.S. organized labor is having a moment after decades of erosion in both influence and power, giving workers their best chance in recent memory to claw back lost ground.

A Deere & Co. worker holds a sign during a strike outside the John Deere Des Moines Works facility in Ankeny, Iowa. Photo: Bloomberg.

Fashion Brands Have Gone Quiet on Xinjiang Cotton in Fear of Retaliation

When a fashion industry sustainability group called out China over its treatment of Uyghur Muslims, the idea was to nudge Beijing toward human-rights reforms while cleaning up a troubled corner of the $60 billion global cotton business. Western brands have learned the hard way that things don’t work that way in China.

Cotton ready for harvest. Photo: Bloomberg.

Port-Crisis Plan Seeks Inland U.S. Terminals, More Truckers

Commitments from shippers and cargo owners to move toward around-the-clock unloading at the docks in Los Angeles are a first step to addressing a national supply chain backlog.

Truck chassis sit stacked at the APM shipping terminal in the Port of Los Angeles. Photo: Bloomberg.

Biden Confronts Supply Chain Crisis Stretching Past His Grip

President Biden wants to break a logjam at U.S. ports and stave off a holiday season of shortages and delays — bottlenecks that officials and stakeholders say extend far beyond the reach of the White House.

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on supply chain bottlenecks ahead of the Christmas shopping season. Photo: Bloomberg.

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