In the world of e-commerce, the packaging is more than just a box. It's meant to "inspire and inform" consumers.

It wasn't exactly a cast of thousands. But when The Volvo Group set out to slash energy usage at its North American manufacturing plants, it called on a wealth of partners from both the private and public sectors for help.

Still confused about what shippers must do to comply with that new regulation on the weighing of loaded containers at ports? You've got plenty of company.

Those idle cranes in the Port of Oakland's Outer Harbor stand as mute testimony to the changes that are roiling container ports and terminals today.

When it comes to vetting suppliers, playing by the numbers might well be the best way to go.

Keeping online buyers happy is easy. All you have to do is flood the channel with so much inventory that you're never out of stock. And probably go out of business in the process.

It makes sense that a running shoe would stand for an increase in the speed with which manufacturers can "print" products on demand.

Is there any aspect of the e-commerce buying experience that Amazon.com Inc. doesn't want to directly control?

Global businesses are still experiencing the aftereffects of the Great Recession of 2007-2009. But perhaps no sector has felt the pain more acutely than mid-market suppliers.

Cryptocurrency: The very word suggests shady dealings. But a new purveyor of an alternative digital payment method - to put it in more mundane terms - is seeking to change that.