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Taking a Snapshot of U.S. Manufacturing
Surveys are snapshots. They don't tell you what respondents were thinking a year earlier, or a day later. They offer up opinions that are frozen in time.
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When It's Time to Re-Brand Your Company: The Signs to Read, the Pitfalls to Watch
Can American Manufacturers Compete With the Chinese - in China?
So the Chinese are gearing up to sell their branded merchandise in the U.S. But what about the other way around? Can American manufacturers capture a healthy share of China's burgeoning consumer market?
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Coming Soon to America: Chinese-Branded Merchandise
Chinese brands are aiming for a hefty slice of the U.S. consumer market. And they're liable to succeed a lot more quickly than you might think.
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For Buyers and Suppliers, Supply-Chain Finance Pays Off
With every crisis comes opportunity. The Great Recession, which choked off access to capital and placed suppliers around the world in economic jeopardy, triggered the growth of supply-chain finance programs, benefiting suppliers and buyers alike.
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How to Stop Cargo Theft From Stealing Your Profits
Movie heists often involve sophisticated tools and brilliant plans that depend on crack timing in order to succeed. Not so in real life.
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The U.S. Merchant Marine Is Foundering. Should We Care?
More than 30 years ago, when I began writing about transportation and logistics, one of the first pieces that I did was about the imminent demise of the U.S. merchant marine. Today, I find myself addressing the same issue. As industries go, this has got to be one of the slowest deaths on record.
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Making the Case for a National Infrastructure Bank
The nation's transportation infrastructure is in dire shape.
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Are Cloud Applications a Cybersecurity Threat?
To be a corporate I.T. professional today, you have to be obsessed with cybersecurity. A line on your resume should read "paranoid tendencies." Because somebody really is out to get you - or, at least, your company's proprietary information.
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For Truckers, It's a Long and Winding Road
A couple of posts ago, I wrote about the continuing efforts of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters to reduce, if not eliminate, the use of independent owner-operators in port drayage operations. But that's just one of several major issues affecting truckers today. Here are some more:
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How Delphi Automotive Got Real With Its Suppliers
"New business reality." That's an apt way to describe the position of any company that has just emerged from four years of reorganization under Chapter 11 of U.S. bankruptcy law. And it's precisely the challenge that Delphi Automotive faced back in 2009, when it sought to reinvent itself and shore up relations with an army of suppliers.
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The Teamsters Are Still Targeting Independent Truckers
The U.S. Supreme Court last month drove two more nails into the coffin of port efforts to impose local rules on drayage operators, in violation of interstate commerce law. The court ruled unanimously that the Port of Los Angeles could not require drayage companies to display placards on their trucks that included a phone number for reporting concerns about their operations. It also could not mandate the development of off-street parking plans for harbor vehicles.
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