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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.

Infrastructure Battle Puts China Chip Bill on Back-Burner

A bipartisan push to make the U.S. more competitive with China and bolster domestic chip production risks falling by the wayside as Congress grapples with a packed year-end agenda in an ever-more-divided Capitol.

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Watch: Is American Manufacturing Due for a Resurgence?

Shay Scott, executive director of the Global Supply Chain Institute, and professor in the University of Tennessee’s Master of Science in Supply Chain Management online program, weighs the factors that might influence American manufacturers to reshore production from Asia to the U.S.

Is American Manufacturing Due for a Resurgence?

Slow-Paying Buyers Are Threatening the Stability of Struggling Suppliers

In the midst of a growing supply chain crisis, suppliers are increasingly being forced to accept longer payment terms from buyers. Both sides are desperate to protect their cash, but the trend threatens to undermine the stability of suppliers, and can only serve to exacerbate the situation.

A financial manager counts U.S. $100 bills. Photo: tapanakorn/ Canva.

Five Ways to Manage Cyber Risks Throughout the Supply Chain

Supply chain cyber attacks have been on the rise, with a 42% increase in the U.S. during the first quarter of 2021.

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Three Lessons for Retailers in a Year of Disruption

It’s time that retailers shifted from a reactive to a proactive strategy, one that anticipates and accounts for all future disruptions.

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.

Supply-Crunch Inflation Gives Central Banks an Unfixable Problem

The global economy’s supply crunch is propelling inflation at such a fast pace that central bankers may be forced to respond, even though fixing that imbalance is beyond their power.

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Watch: How Fast Fulfillment Changed Retailing

Sanchoy Das, professor in the Engineering Department of the New Jersey Institute of Technology, explains how “fast fulfillment” has come to dominate e-commerce, to the point where online shoppers expect nothing less.

How Fast Fulfillment Changed Retailing

The Scourge of Ransomware: Another Kind of Epidemic

Ransomware attacks are a persistent and rapidly growing scourge.

A ransomware demand for $300 worth of bitcoin is displayed on the screen of a laptop infected by the 'Petya' computer virus. Photo: Bloomberg.

Global Port Gridlock Threatens Economies Everywhere

Global ports are growing more gridlocked as the pandemic era’s supply shocks intensify, threatening to spoil the holiday shopping season, erode corporate profits and drive up consumer prices.

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.

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