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Podcast | Managing Vendor Compliance With Health and Safety Rules
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.
Photo: Bloomberg
Podcast | Why We Need to Ramp Up Recycling of Old Tech
The failure of consumers to recycle their personal devices could lead to shortages of the precious metals needed to build new products.
A row of iPhone smartphones on display inside an Apple store. Photo: Bloomberg.
Podcast | The Real Reason for Product Shortages? Not Enough Packaging
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.
Photo: Bloomberg
Podcast | Supply-Chain Gaps: Lessons From the Pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic has uncovered some unpleasant truths about the inability of global supply chains to withstand a disruption of such size and scope.
Photo: Bloomberg
Podcast | What It Takes to Make Direct-to-Consumer Fulfillment Work
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.
Source: Bloomberg
Podcast | Bridging the Generation Gap in U.S. Manufacturing
If U.S. manufacturing is to compete with cheap overseas production, it needs to attract a younger workforce with technology chops.
Photo: Bloomberg
Podcast | Supply-Chain Finance: A Life Preserver for Small Suppliers?
In an economic downturn, how do smaller businesses gain access to liquidity, which often isn’t available to them at any price?
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Podcast | Out With Conveyors, In With Autonomous Mobile Robots
The humble conveyor is no longer the symbol of warehouse automation. The robots are here.
Source: Bloomberg
Podcast | Are There Positive Signs of Economic Recovery?
The coronavirus pandemic has plunged the U.S. and global economies into dire straits.
Source: Bloomberg
Podcast | A U.S. Producer Challenges China’s Dominance in Rare Earth Mining
The 17 “rare earth” minerals that are essential to so many high-tech products today, from electric cars to magnets and military systems, aren’t literally rare, but their mining and production is.
Annealed neodymium iron boron magnets sit in a barrel prior to being crushed into powder. One of several rare earth elements, neodymium is critical to the motors used in electric vehicles. Photo: Bloomberg.
Podcast | Massive Changes Are Happening Across the Retail Landscape
Is the word “omnichannel” another way of saying “spoiled consumer”?
A shopper walks through Hudson Yards mall in New York. Photo: Bloomberg.
Podcast | Strategies for Bringing Manufacturing Back to the U.S.
Easier said than done: that pretty well describes the task of shifting manufacturing out of China and back to the United States.
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