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Post-Recession, Mid-Sized Suppliers Seek New Avenues of Trade Financing
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.
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A Cryptocurrency Makes a Bid for Legitimacy
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.
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Are Carriers Changing Their Minds on Megaships?
It takes a lot of time and energy to turn around one of those massive new containerships in mid-ocean. The same goes for reversing the assumptions that led to the construction of those behemoths in the first place.
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Why Supply Chain Has Taken So Long to Migrate to the Cloud
Supply-chain has gone to the cloud. The only question is: What took it so long?
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How Technology Is Boosting Risk Levels at Ports and Terminals
Without question, technology has been a boon to global trade. But it's also responsible for raising the risk factor at every stage of the supply chain - and especially at ports and terminals.
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The Air Waybill Is Going Paperless - Slowly
The electronic air waybill (eAWB) has arrived. But certain air freight forwarders and carriers are still holding on to the paper version for dear life.
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Solutions to Bridging the Supply-Chain Talent Gap
All the uncertainty surrounding global trade and the economy doesn't appear to have put a dent in the market for supply-chain talent.
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Container-Weighing Rule: And You Put the Load Right On ... Who?
Just who's responsible for weighing that ocean container? After several years of thrashing out a rule to combat the problem of misdeclared weights, regulators and rulemaking bodies still can't seem to agree.
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Sharks vs. Jets on the West Coast Waterfront?
Here's a question for U.S. exporters who were grievously harmed by the West Coast longshore labor slowdown in late 2014 and early 2015: Would it make you feel any better to learn that you were the victims of "a street brawl"?
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So Your S&OP Initiative Isn't Working Out? Here's Why
A lot of companies are falling short in their efforts to derive full value from the sales and operations planning (S&OP) function. But the main reason for their failure might surprise you.
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How Retailers Can Meet the Challenge of Amazon
The outsourcing of logistics is supposed to save businesses big money. They pay only for the services they need; they turn over complex operations to a pro, and they get expensive assets off their books. It all makes eminent sense - unless your name is Amazon.com Inc.
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TPP: A New Era of Trade, or the Monster Spawn of Nafta?
Can we predict the impact of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) by examining the track record of the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta)? Well, maybe.
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