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UPS Reports Weak Earnings, Work to Do on E-Commerce
United Parcel Service Inc.'s holiday-season scorecard is out, and for the third year in four it reads e-commerce: 1, company: 0.
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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Amazon to Move Prime Air Hub to Cincinnati
When Amazon announced last year that it was entering directly into the air logistics business with the launch of Prime Air, the airfreight world knew that it had to prepare for bold moves by a deep-pocketed company with a passion for innovation. Now, the Seattle-based online retail giant has announced the shift of its current air hub from Wilmington Airpark (ILN) in Ohio to the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport (CVG) this spring, hinting at a possibly vast expansion of Amazon's e-commerce air service.
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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Continuous Sales and Operations Planning Process at TE Connectivity
The task of linking systems of any company with truly global reach is difficult enough to begin with, says Lindsey Kathmann, supply chain analyst at TE Connectivity, but complexity is heightened when the enterprise is structured into separate business units, some with their own spinoffs.
Trends in Pharmaceutical Supply Chains
Merging two companies is seldom easy, but it's even more difficult when their supply chains are highly dissimilar, says Jim Calarese, director of supply chain systems at Sanofi Genzyme.
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.
More Manufacturers Are Investing in Augmented Reality
Way back in December 1890, decades before it landed its first defense contracts, Newport News Shipbuilding delivered its maiden hull, a 90-foot tugboat affectionately named for the young daughter of a former Navy Secretary. Dorothy was delivered at a loss, well over budget. Big data might have helped to curb the overrun. Augmented reality might have helped, too.
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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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Taming Supply Chain Complexity
For Xilinx Inc., a supplier of programmable logic devices, the focus is more on speed than optimization, says Alex Brown, vice president of supply chain.
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