There are only 14 helium refineries worldwide, and helium supply was already rapidly shrinking before the current interruptions to sources in Qatar.

Customer expectations for uptime, reliability, and service quality are higher than ever. At the same time, organizations are managing increasingly complex assets, aging infrastructure, and growing pressure to improve efficiency and profitability.

Eric Rimkeit, director of marketing with Supplyframe, explains the reasons for an expected spike in pricing of capacitors, and what that means for electronics supply chains.

“Would you be the first penguin off the ice floe to test the water?” one shipowner asked.

Another memory chip shortage? How soon we forget.

China is fighting back against what it sees as rising protectionism in the West.

Economists say impacts from the prolonged Iran war could reduce global demand for Chinese exports going forward.

Many of the vulnerabilities that make consumer routers attractive targets for hackers have little to do with where they are built.

After decades of pursuing supply chain efficiency, U.S. companies have turned their focus to what’s politely termed “resilience,” but might better be described as redundancy.

As the crisis drags on, many Asian countries are pledging deeper energy cooperation with diplomatic friends.