For more than a year, companies have been confronting supply chain snafus. The hitches are particularly acute for manufacturers, which typically require sizeable volumes of numerous components. We ...
It is no secret that COVID-19 has exposed the stress points in manufacturing supply chains across the world. Early in the pandemic, manufacturers struggled to keep up with the sudden demand for ...
The current state of the supply chain is causing a degree panic within businesses. Large enterprises may have resources and levers to pull to deal with the uncertainty, but for small and midsized ...
GREENVILLE, N.C. (Stacker.com) — Much as everyone would like to put the COVID-19 pandemic behind them, positive cases continue to circulate throughout the world and the economy is still feeling its ...
The Global Manufacturing PMI showed the time taken for factories to receive goods from their supplier shortened on average in March. Although only modest, the second successive monthly improvement in ...
Freighters line up to enter the Panama Canal, which is facing historically low water levels due to drought. (Photo credit: searagen - adobe.stock.com) The COVID-19 pandemic has, for all intents and ...
The legacy focus on low, per-unit cost of production that led to offshoring continues to haunt U.S. manufacturers through a cascading series of supply chain disruptions – shortages of materials, ...
In multi-tier supply chains, trust is often the first casualty of complexity. Blockchain is helping to restore it by creating ...
Over the past year-and-a-half, the topic of supply chains has become so prevalent that people who had no idea about supply chains now know about supply chains. For the general consumer, that may be ...
Our outlook for the year ahead anticipates a continuation of the many disruptions we are currently seeing at every stage of the supply chain. Suppliers themselves are struggling to maintain capacity.