Global supply chain management - Articles - Page 357

Ocean Piracy Down Overall Around the World, But Continues to Rise in Southeast Asia

January 20, 2015

Attacks against small tankers off South East Asia's coasts caused a rise in global ship hijackings, up to 21 in 2014 from 12 in 2013, despite piracy at sea falling to its lowest level in eight years, the International Chamber of Commerce International Maritime Bureau (IMB) has revealed. Pirates took 442 crew members hostage, compared with 304 in 2013.

How to Capture New 'Value' Segment in Medical Devices

January 19, 2015

McKinsey

The growing demand for products that are "good enough" and competitively priced has pushed medical-product manufacturers to develop strategies to attract and retain this new segment of customers.

Could New Guidelines Lead to Greater Use of Tagged-item RFID Technology?

January 19, 2015

RFID Journal

Standards group GS1 US has released its Tagged-Item Performance Protocol (TIPP), a guideline that includes a scale for grading the performance of EPC ultrahigh-frequency RFID tags when used on specific products and in specific environments, as well standardizing the testing conducted to identify that grade.

More Retail Executives Ask How They Can Respond to Cyber Breaches

January 19, 2015

FierceRetailIT

A cyber crime occurs every 18 seconds, but few companies are developing proactive plans to deal with a security event before it happens. Involving executives, including a company's board of directors, is imperative for retailers to mitigate the damage from a breach.

Instacart Fills Its Investment Basket With Another $220M

January 16, 2015

Business Week

Instacart, the fast-growing online grocery delivery start-up that can get groceries to your doorstep within an hour, is growing some more. The three-year-old company just announced it has raised $220m in a funding round led by the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

Are Chinese Companies Beginning to Lose Some of Their Global Clout?

January 16, 2015

BCG Perspectives

Ever since Chinese companies began going global in force a couple of decades ago, their impact on worldwide business has been hard to overstate. By combining low cost with massive scale, and by taking full advantage of a huge domestic market, companies based in China have disrupted and transformed industries from telecommunications equipment to solar panels. Will that leadership continue?

Financial Literacy, Diplomacy, Patience Are Keys to Making Supply Chain Leaders Effective

January 16, 2015

Logistics Viewpoints

The key attributes for supply chain leadership are patience, diplomacy and financial literacy. And this is a very rare combination of skills.

EU-Canada Free Trade Agreement Expected to Boost Already-Huge Trade Volume Between the Partners

January 16, 2015

BIFA

Trade between the European Union and Canada is already very strong – and growth is expected to continue as a result of an historic new trade agreement now being finalized in Ottawa, according to the British International Freight Association. The Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) is said to be Canada’s most ambitious trade initiative, broader in scope and deeper in ambition than the North American Free Trade Agreement.