More than 1,500 ships trapped in the Strait of Hormuz for months have been accumulating microbial organisms at levels unprecedented in modern maritime history.

Supply-chain readiness requires visibility beyond just tier-one suppliers, says Kaitlyn Huissen, vice president of supply chain intelligence at Exiger.

The organizations that are expected to come out of this boom strongest are the ones treating obsolescence as a design-stage financial decision.

Shippers must add the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea to areas that are unsafe.

For manufacturers, the move from compliance-focused approaches to more proactive safety practices represents a meaningful shift.

Disruption has delivered some hard lessons to companies and their global supply chains. But are they really learning from it? Bernard Tremblay, CEO of USA & Canada with Miebach, offers a view.

Even as manufacturers struggle to fashion long-term sourcing strategies, they face more immediate problems: the rising cost of materials and lengthening supplier delays.

The battery passport often reads as a regulatory burden, just another rule from Brussels. In practice, it’s something more useful.

July 23’s announcement was largely expected, and analysts noted the new tariff regime leaves the overall duty on imports roughly the same.

For supply chain executives, the core challenge is managing probabilistic behavior whose outputs are inherently unpredictable.