Human trafficking and slavery in global supply chains would appear to be an intractable problem. But progress toward their elimination is being made. Read More

If you’re a business that’s outsourcing services, don’t think for one moment that you’re shedding responsibility for the health and safety of a vendor’s staff when they show up on your premises.

The failure of consumers to recycle their personal devices could lead to shortages of the precious metals needed to build new products. Read more.

Many of the supply-chain shortages caused by the coronavirus pandemic have one thing in common: a lack of plastic and cardboard containers to put them in. Read more.

The coronavirus pandemic has uncovered some unpleasant truths about the inability of global supply chains to withstand a disruption of such size and scope. Read more.

Retailers selling over the internet can’t hope to compete without a reliable and effective direct-to-consumer (DTC) model for fulfillment. But setting one up is anything but easy. Read more.

If U.S. manufacturing is to compete with cheap overseas production, it needs to attract a younger workforce with technology chops. Read more.