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Watch: How Brands Are Maintaining Their Identity in the Age of Amazon

Consumer brands are striving to maintain their identity, even as they face common challenges relating to modern-day e-commerce fulfillment. Matt Barr, senior director of product strategy with Geodis, explains.

How Brands Are Maintaining Their Identity in the Age of Amazon

Five Reasons Shipping Software Needs to Embrace Multi-Carrier Parcel Management

Shipping operations have become enormously more complex and difficult to manage. To meet these challenges, businesses need to go beyond traditional fixes and into the realm of comprehensive carrier management systems.

Packages move down a conveyor in a distribution facility. Photo: Getty.

New Chip Crisis Means Auto Giants Aren’t in the Clear Yet

While tight supplies of semiconductors are set to ease later this year, the next bottleneck is likely to come from growing demand for analog chips, which are increasingly being used in automobiles as they become electrified and autonomous.

Honda Motor Co. vehicles at an AutoNation car dealership in Fremont, California. Photo: Bloomberg.

Watch: How Supply Chains Survived the 2021 Holiday Season

Brian Higgins, principal, supply chain and operations leader with KPMG, offers a post mortem on the recently concluded 2021 holiday retail season.

How Supply Chains Survived the 2021 Holiday Season

L.A. Port Sees Chance to Ease Ship Backlog by Summer Peak

U.S. supply chains have a chance to normalize after retailers replenish inventories next quarter, even if peak summer demand arrives sooner than usual, according to Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka.

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

Lean, ‘Just-in-Time’ Management Didn't Cause the Supply Chain Crisis

There’s nothing in the lean and just-in-time supply chain methodologies that recommend keeping a bare minimum of parts on hand. In fact, they preach the opposite.

A container ship is berthed at the Port of Oakland in Oakland, California. Photo: Port of Oakland.

Canadian Bridge Blockade Stretches Fragile Auto Supply Chain

Protestors blocking traffic between the U.S. and Canada to oppose vaccine rules have further stretched an auto supply chain already worn thin by pandemic-related labor shortages and a scarcity of chips.

Commercial trucks and passenger vehicles drive across Ambassador Bridge on the Canada-U.S. border in Windsor, Ontario. The bridge connects Windsor to Detroit and facilitates over 30% of all Canada-U.S. road trade. Photo: Bloomberg.

EU Offers Ambitious Chips Law That May Struggle to Deliver Funds

The European Union unveiled its plan to use its economic leverage to attract large semiconductor producers like Intel Corp. and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., but reaching the full 45 billion euro ($51.4 billion) price tag depends on a controversial and untested method of subsidizing production.

An employee inspect wafers using an optical microscope. Photo: Bloomberg.

Net-Zero Plans of the Biggest Global Companies Don't Add Up

What do Unilever, Google and Amazon have in common? Their net-zero promises do not add up to net zero, a new report says.

A dead giant sequoia tree after a wildfire in Sequoia National Forest, California. Photo: Bloomberg.

Americans Face Record Metals Prices as Shipping Costs Surge

Surging prices of the raw materials needed for your refrigerators, automobiles, window frames and plumbing show no signs of abating as America’s supply chain crisis spills into another year.

Fiber optic cables, center, and copper Ethernet cables feed into switches inside an office communications room. Photo: Bloomberg.

Is Supply Chain Technology Failing U.S. Retailers?

In the face of prolific investments in supply chain technology and resources, U.S. retailers have failed to achieve significant cost savings.

Navigating Not So Friendly Skies to Find a Silver Lining

Conditions are showing improvement in the aerospace and defense industries, even as Covid-related uncertainty remains the prevalent theme. In the current morass lie opportunities for companies to capitalize on.

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