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As Power Grid Sputters in Puerto Rico, Business Does Too

Miriam Gonzalez stepped outside her shuttered restaurant in this municipality near San Juan and offered an exaggerated grin. "This is my happy face," Gonzalez, 52, said, her voice heavy with mockery. "It's a very happy face. We all have it on."

A Fifth of Firms Don't Have Full Supply Chain Visibility, Report Says

Almost three quarters of firms say they have continuity arrangements in place with regard to supply chain management, according to a survey.

How a Shirt Covered in Swastikas Ends Up in a Department Store

Retail supply chains are so complex that sometimes a Nazi symbol can slip through the cracks.

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Laggards Scramble to Comply With Looming ELD Mandate

The start of the phased-in compliance period for installation of electronic logging devices (ELDs) on commercial trucks is just over a month away. But many drivers appear to be lagging in adopting the technology.

Fidget Spinners Sold at Target Contain Dangerous Levels of Lead, Advocacy Group Says

Fidget spinners - the multipronged, whirling gadgets that became so popular this year that some schools banned them as a distraction - have been marketed as playful diversions meant to help people calm down and focus.

Opinion: How Brands Can Create Safer Supply Chains

In 2010 a spate of suicides at factories in southern China owned by Foxconn, a contract manufacturer for some of the world's leading electronics brands, highlighted poor conditions faced by its assembly workers. Foxconn promised to improve working conditions, but reports of further suicides or attempted suicides have continued to dog the company.

Most U.K. Supermarkets Are Falling Short in Fight Against Antibiotics Crisis

Most of the U.K.'s biggest supermarket chains are falling short on measures to reduce the use of antibiotics in the production of the meat and animal products they sell, campaigners have warned, with potentially harmful impacts on human health.

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Protecting Against Terrorist Threats to the Supply Chain

Of all the potential disruptions to global supply chains today, terrorist attack might be the least understood, and the hardest to prepare for.

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Piracy Increases in Straits of Malacca and Singapore

The number of piracy incidents against ships in Asia last month increased compared to the same period in 2016.

Blown Away: Reconnecting Broken Supply Chains After Airfreight Disaster

On a Tuesday in Mexico City, employees at DSV Air & Sea, S.A. de C.V. were in the middle of a normal workday in the head office when a 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck - killing more than 350 people.

Someone Figured Out How to Put Tomatoes on a Blockchain

Intrigued by how blockchain was changing finance, an ex-banker at Wells Fargo & Co. and a former executive at Nasdaq Inc. began looking for other opportunities. They looked at applying the technology to insurance, law, even music. Then they hit on farming.

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Rise in Warehouse Automation Fuels Fire Risk, Too

A robotic material handling unit zips through a global toy manufacturer's six-story distribution center. As the unit retrieves an open-top plastic container filled with freshly molded toy planes from an automatic storage and retrieval system (ASRS), sparks from a frayed electrical cable on the robot fly everywhere, igniting both the toy planes and the plastic container in which they are stored.

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How a Leading U.S. Floral Distribution Company Reduced Warehouse Labor Costs by 45% with RFID

Recycled Tagging Fasteners: Small Changes Make a Big Impact

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Enhancing High-Value Electronics Shipment Security with Tive's Real-Time Tracking

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