In the world of supply chain, “collaboration” is everyone’s favorite buzzword. But modern-day technology is investing the word with new meaning. Read more.
For more than 20 years, the Business Roundtable, a lobbying group consisting entirely of chief executive officers, has maintained that the primary mission of corporations is to serve the interests of their shareholders. Now the group wants the world to believe that it values other fundamentals as well.
Artificial intelligence is poised to take over any number of tasks related to supply-chain management. But what will happen to the humans who were doing those jobs? Read more.
Political turmoil in the United Kingdom over the terms of the country’s withdrawal from the European Union — Brexit — has injected great uncertainty into the plans of companies doing business there. U.S. retailers distributing throughout the EU from the U.K. are especially affected.
When it comes to products that infringe on patents, retailers that sell them are just as vulnerable to legal action as the manufacturers that make them.
Multiple reports are emerging from Xinjiang about human rights abuses against the indigenous Uyghur population, including mass detentions and the use of forced and child labor in local factories.
Manufacturers, retailers and distributors looking to make better use of working capital have a number of creative options at their disposal. But many prefer simply to slow-pay their suppliers.
U.S. manufacturers are lagging their European counterparts in the adoption of creative approaches to supply-chain finance. But three companies are demonstrating the varied ways in which that tool can be effectively deployed.