The New York TimesMore from The New York TimesGlobal Supply Chain ManagementForged Warehouse Receipts Were All for Nickel, Glencore Firm SaysForged warehouse certificates circulating in the name of Access World, a metals warehouse company owned by commodity giant Glencore Plc, have all been for nickel in Asia, it said last week.February 17, 2017Global Supply Chain ManagementWith Everything About Trump, What's a Designer to Do?The night President and Mrs. Trump had dinner at Mar-a-Lago with the Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan and his wife, Akie Abe - after a nice round of golf and a garden tour, before North Korea necessitated an impromptu news conference - Alexander Wang dragged his audience up to the crumbling abandoned RKO Hamilton Theater on 146th Street in Harlem and jammed everyone into a standing-room-only area that once housed orchestra seats and now framed a raised runway.February 16, 2017Global Supply Chain ManagementSiemens Completes 'Key Test' of 3D-Printed Gas-Turbine BladesGerman engineering group Siemens has run a successful test of power generation gas turbine blades produced wholly by metal-based 3D printing by U.K.-based Materials Solutions, which it bought last year.February 15, 2017All TechnologyApple Moves Closer to iPhone Assembly in IndiaThe government of the Indian state of Karnataka says it welcomed a proposal from Apple Inc to begin initial manufacturing operations in the state, in a sign the tech company is slowly moving forward with plans to assemble iPhones in the country.February 13, 2017Global Supply Chain ManagementChina Manufacturing Activity in January Nears 2-Year HighChina started 2017 on a high note according to results of a survey that showed manufacturing expanded in January at close to its fastest pace in two years.February 10, 2017SC Security & Risk MgmtSupermarkets Ration Iceberg Lettuces Due to Supply CrunchBritish 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.February 8, 2017Global Trade ManagementWhat It Takes to Get a Corona From Mexico to a U.S. Heartland BarOrdering 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.February 7, 2017Logistics OutsourcingBosch, Cisco, BNY Mellon, Others Launch New Blockchain ConsortiumCisco 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.February 6, 2017Regulation & ComplianceU.K. Offshore Wind Costs Fall Nearly a Third in Four YearsThe cost of producing electricity from wind farms off the coast of Britain has fallen 32 percent in the past four years, meeting a government target four years early, an industry report said.February 2, 2017Business Strategy AlignmentU.S. Department Stores Steady Profitability by Cutting Supply Chain CostsU.S. department store chains, hit by slowing sales for more than two years, have used layoffs, store closings and cutbacks to maintain one aspect of stability: profit margins.February 1, 2017Previous PagePage 20 of 28Next Page
