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Opinion: Supply Chain Underestimates the Threat of War
Supply chain risk management has enjoyed a rise in prominence over the past decade as events like Japan's tsunami, Thailand's floods and the US west coast port strike have shone a light on the value of resilience. Hot risk factors today include data security, logistics disruptions and trade policy uncertainty.
Companies Not Complying With Bangladesh Garment Plan, Report Says
Dozens of global clothing companies are not complying with a plan to ensure better safety in Bangladesh garment factories following the deadly collapse of a building four years ago, a rights group says.
Q&A: Matching Supply Chain Training to 21st-Century Needs
It's a whole new era of supply chain, with demands that were scarcely imaginable decades ago, and the techniques for training both new and veteran supply-chain professionals must change accordingly. It's a whole new era of supply chain, with demands that were scarcely imaginable decades ago, and the techniques for training both new and veteran supply-chain professionals must change accordingly.
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U.S. Officials Say Pirates Have Returned to Waters Off Somalia
Pirates have returned to the waters off Somalia, but the spike in attacks on commercial shipping does not yet constitute a trend, senior U.S. officials said last week.
Facing the Task of Facilitating WTO's Trade Facilitation Agreement
Free trade seems to have few friends in positions of power these days. But advocates of removing obstacles to the flow of international trade got at least one piece of good news earlier this year.
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IoT Tech Is Gaining Ground in Retail Worldwide, Study Shows
A study conducted worldwide by Zebra Technologies Brazil and released in São Paulo indicates that 70 percent of retailers plan to invest in Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to improve the customer experience. By 2021, the study indicates, smart technologies will provide consumers with new levels of customization, speed and convenience.
Drop Shipping Could Be Key to Generation Z
Brands and retailers have been hyper focused on Millennials for years now. But while they've been busy trying to figure out what Millennials want, Generation Z, a maturing and ever more digitized and global generation, is emerging with its formidable buying power.
More Manufacturers Are Turning to Supply Chain Finance to Prep for Growth
Manufacturing is having a moment. Optimism on Wall Street and rising levels of consumer and business confidence have put manufacturing squarely back into growth territory. One index that tracks global manufacturing performance, the JPMorgan Global Manufacturing PMI, is the highest it's been since 2011. Production growth rates are at a three-year high. So is the rate of expansion in new orders. And factory payrolls are growing faster than they have in over five years.
This Sweater Company Is Breaking a Cashmere Cartel
In 2012, Matt Scanlan, the founder and chief executive officer of Naadam Cashmere, was just a young New York University alumnus with an unsatisfying job at a venture capital firm. "After a couple years of working as an analyst - which is a pretty thankless job - I left," he says. "A week after I quit, I booked a flight" to Ulaanbaatar, the capital city of Mongolia, to visit a college friend who lived in the region. The two of them met a newspaper reporter who hailed from Scanlan's hometown of Westport, Conn., and soon happened to hit it off with a couple of the reporter's sources, nomadic goat herders."
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Better Government Procurement Could Save $1Tr Globally, Report Says
Smarter procurement could save around 15 percent of government spending globally and improve outcomes, a report has said.
The Future of Work: Surviving in a 'Platform Economy'
The so-called platform economy promises to drastically change the nature of work. Is that a bad thing, or a good thing?
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Companies Undergoing Digitization Need Protection Against Cyber Attacks
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