Supply Chain

Imagine it’s September 2023 and another Category 4 hurricane is gathering steam off the Gulf Coast. We don’t know where landfall will happen, so we can’t gauge the impact the storm will have on states, cities, communities and ultimately the supply chain that will be critical to any recovery effort.

Semiconductors are not a homogenous commodity; they are unique to specific products and technologies.

President Biden and China’s President Xi shook hands on Nov. 14 for the first time since Biden became U.S. president. This in-person meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit meeting dialed down the tension and may prevent a new cold war between both countries. At least for now.  

Behind almost every product sold is a supply chain struggling with harm to and exclusion of women, despite evidence showing that advancing gender equality improves business and human outcomes.

RFID has long been a useful tool for better supply chain management. It still is. While RFID is a comparatively older technology, industry analysts predict RFID use in the supply chain will keep growing.

Rising food prices are gobbling up our money for Thanksgiving dinner. Creative ways to save on your holiday meal.

Electricity and water supplies are hit across the country as strikes on civilian resources intensify

Glance out at the ocean near the Port of Long Beach and the view may look different than it did earlier this year – where are all the cargo ships?

The supply-chain disruptions over the past few years have put a lot more focus on the idea of bringing manufacturing back to the U.S.

The past few years have highlighted serious deficiencies in prevalent supply-chain strategies and the major risk that disruptions pose to corporate success. Loss of sales and market share are the most visible and measurable impacts. McKinsey estimates that shocks lasting a month or longer are occurring every 3.7 years and companies can expect to lose 42% of one year’s EBITDA every decade due to supply-chain disruptions.