Supply Chain Lessons from the Ski Slopes
All Things Supply Chain
JANUARY 14, 2018
It’s that time of year again, when the snow covers the mountains, the piste bashers come out to play, the chair lifts are running and the ski season comes into…
All Things Supply Chain
JANUARY 14, 2018
It’s that time of year again, when the snow covers the mountains, the piste bashers come out to play, the chair lifts are running and the ski season comes into…
Supply Chain Collaborator
JANUARY 19, 2018
New Awards Program Sponsored by UltraShipTMS Honors Transportation Excellence at Castellini Group, Giorgio Foods and Burns Logistics, Inc. January 18, 2018 – Fair Lawn, NJ – Burgeoning supply chain logistics software solution provider, UltraShipTMS is proud to announce the launch of an annual awards program designed to recognize excellence in the utilization and promotion of leading edge technologies supporting effective transportation planning, execution and management.
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Supply Chain Brain
JANUARY 19, 2018
Blockchain technology was created to support transactions involving Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. But it has quickly emerged from that dark and mysterious world to offer an invaluable tool for business in general, and global supply chains in particular. Touted as a secure, immutable system of record for any number of transactions between business partners, it seems an ideal tool for managing the complex web of relationships that make up a typical supply chain.
Market Dojo
JANUARY 15, 2018
Cost plus: (definition, adjective). “relating to or denoting a method of pricing a service or product in which a fixed profit factor is added to the costs.”. You could argue that every item or service sold is cost plus. In other words, you need to make a profit to stay in business so that everything purchased has to have a margin added to the final sale value, which will be more than the sum of their parts.
Advertiser: GEP
Procurement and supply chain leaders are presented with their fair share of challenges, with a host of tools and strategies to resolve them. That said, what’s the best path forward to leverage this year’s trends? In this recap of a recent GEP-WBR webinar, 7 Leadership Themes for Procurement & Supply Chain Leaders in 2024, GEP’s Pramod Sethumadhavan explores seven vital leadership trends that will help guide procurement and supply chain decision-makers.
Supply Chain Brain
JANUARY 18, 2018
The growing cyber-dependency of governments and companies, and the associated risks of hacking by criminals or hostile states, has replaced social polarization as a main threat to stability over the next decade, according to the WEF’s yearly assessment of global risks, published Wednesday at Bloomberg LP’s new European headquarters in London. The Davos forum starts Jan. 23 in the Swiss ski resort.
Supply Chain Brain
JANUARY 17, 2018
The retail sector has been the biggest loser of jobs for the last two years in a row in the U.S., as thousands of stores closed as shoppers moved online. It remains one of the U.S.’s largest employers, providing 15.8m jobs, but the reordering of the retail landscape is having a profound impact on the nature of its workforce. Between November 2016 and November 2017, the sector fired 129,000 women (the largest loss for any industrial sector for either sex) while men gained 109,000 positions, accor
Supply Chain Brain
JANUARY 15, 2018
U.S.-based corporations are reported to have between $2tr and $3tr stashed away in offshore accounts, to avoid paying high taxes on domestic income. Apple alone is said to be holding some $269bn in cash and cash equivalents through its overseas affiliates. American companies have been loath to bring that money back to the U.S. because it would become subject to a repatriation tax rate of up to 40 percent.
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