The White House’s announcement of the formation of the Council for Supply Chain Resilience is coming none too soon. There are a set of key facts facing the US Supply Chain Market today: The pivotal point here is the level
Over the past year and half the Transpacific Supply Chain has almost universally been described using unhelpful adjectives as “Broken” or “Snarled”, while blame for the ongoing problems is laid on the supply chain providers – the ocean carriers, the
Physics and math can help to point at solutions for the congestion the international supply chain faces today. Capacity is a mathematic equation. Volume – the amount of something that an object can hold. Velocity is the speed at which
The future of the digital supply chain is going to be in handling vastly larger volumes of cargo with less manual labor. Who buys more than they can consume? This is the statement / question voiced by Kathryn Farmer, CEO
A few weeks back, we cited statistics that retailers and manufacturers have historically low stocks of merchandise and materials, despite the boom in imports. This week, The New York Times published an article entitled, “How the world ran out of
