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Search for Better iPhone Screens Leads to Japan's Rice Fields

Apple's quest to adopt advanced displays for its next-generation iPhone hinges on a single supplier in the Japanese countryside.

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Supermarkets Ration Iceberg Lettuces Due to Supply Crunch

British supermarkets have taken to rationing shoppers to three iceberg lettuces per visit after bad weather hit growing conditions in Spain, leading to a shortage in supplies that is set to continue through to March.

Singapore Says Asian Growth Helps Offset U.S. Trade Threat

Asia's expanding economies and growing middle class are a benefit to Singapore and may help offset the threat of a trade pullback from the U.S., according to the city state's Economic Development Board.

January Sees Record Increase for Manufacturing Costs

A record increase in input costs has not stopped manufacturers making a strong start to 2017, according to the latest manufacturing PMI.

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Supply Chain Centers of Excellence and Customer Success

The ideal center of excellence not only supports internal teams at a company but advocates for customers, says Leah McGuire, director of the Kinaxis Center of Excellence.

What It Takes to Get a Corona From Mexico to a U.S. Heartland Bar

Ordering a bottle of Corona beer at a bar in the United States is a simple proposition. But getting it there from its brewery in Mexico involves a complex, cross-border supply network that will likely get more complicated if U.S. president Donald Trump follows through on vows to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) or tax imports.

DNV: Oil and Gas Industry Finding 'New Normal'

DNV GL has released its annual oil and gas industry benchmark study, and the survey of 700 industry executives and professionals found that confidence is at roughly the same level as last year, with about one third of respondents expecting growth in 2017.

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CargoNet: More Than $100M in U.S. Cargo Theft Last Year

In 2016, 1,614 records of cargo theft, heavy commercial vehicle theft, supply chain fraud, and other intelligence events across the United States and Canada were logged by analytics company CargoNet. More than 800 of those records involved cargo theft, the company said.

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Supply Chain Audits Lack Legal Weight, NGO Says

Auditing firms need to be held legally liable for incidents of worker abuse or health and safety failings that they fail to uncover, a human rights NGO has said.

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In Advance of Earnings Calls, Apparel Brands Face the 'Trump Question'

What to say? As corporate chieftains prepare for a round of no doubt excruciatingly painful fourth-quarter conference calls with Wall Street, they find themselves on unusually uncertain ground.

FedEx Pushes for Infrastructure Fix as Trump Weighs Investment

The growth of e-commerce is putting enormous new demands on U.S. highways, airports and other infrastructure, which must be modernized with sustainable funding, FedEx Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Frederick Smith said.

Bosch, Cisco, BNY Mellon, Others Launch New Blockchain Consortium

Cisco Systems Inc, Bosch Ltd and several other companies, have set up a consortium to work on how blockchain can be used to secure and improve "internet of things" applications, as sectors beyond finance seek to benefit from bitcoin’s underlying technology.

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