Supply & Demand Chain Executive

Risk/Compliance

New Container Weight Rule Could Raise Shipping Costs, Congestion

The time and complications from verifying the weight of shipping containers may boost costs by 14 percent

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CloudCraze Partners with Deloitte Digital to Enhance Adobe Business-to-Business Commerce

CloudCraze, LLC, division of Salesforce

Partnership enables customer-centric, scalable and robust digital commerce platforms for business-to-business customers

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Global Digital Payments to Reach $3.6 Trillion this Year

Juniper Research Limited

Deployment of near field communication payments by players like Apple will increase consumer usage of smartphones

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Ocean Ports & Carriers

F.S. Mackenzie Extends FPS Network to Georgia

Georgia is an important gateway and transit point for Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Armenia

From left to right: Julia Artamonova, operations; Tamar Tvildiani, accounts; Pavle Chikhladze, customs and warehousing; David Bakuradze, customer service; and Nina Inasaridze, operations

Cyber Risk, Superstorms and Economic Pressures Challenge Shipping Safety Progress

Although the number of losses remained stable, declining by just 3 percent compared with the previous year (88), 2015 was the safest year in shipping for a decade.

This year, the effect of a “super” El Niño is expected to lead to more extreme weather conditions. Meanwhile, bad weather was a factor in three of the five largest vessels lost last year, including the El Faro, one of the worst US commercial maritime disasters in decades.

Risk/Compliance

Metric of the Month: Percentage of Supplier Orders Delivered on Time

Suppliers that are chronically late can shut down production lines and cost a tremendous amount due to downtime

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Sourcing & Procurement

Crude Mystery: Where Did 800,000 Barrels of Oil Go?

The oversupply driving crude prices to decade lows could be smaller than estimated and prices could rebound faster

Oil rallied Monday following the IEA’s projection that shale production is poised to fall this year by about 600,000 barrels a day, and by 200,000 barrels a day in 2017. U.S. crude rose 6.2 percent to $31.48 a barrel. Oil has fallen by about two-thirds since 2014.

Minimum-Wage Increases Set to Raise e-Commerce Logistics Costs

Warehouses with more than 500 people may see annual labor costs grow by $1 million or more

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Sourcing & Procurement

Pepco Holdings Improves Efficiency with Early Payment Discounts

Dolphin Enterprise Solutions Corporation

The Invoice Improvement Project manages cash, cost and risk through process innovation

Brian Shannon

CIMdata's Product Lifecycle Management Certificate Program Set to Take Place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Risk/Compliance

Business Groups Seek Extension of West Coast Port Labor Deal

Retailers and manufacturers want predictability by extending the contract agreed to in negotiations last year

FILE - The ports of Los Angeles (pictured) and Long Beach, which form the largest port complex in the Western Hemisphere, reported a 37 percent jump in container imports from a year earlier, when both ports slowed to a crawl amid protracted labor negotiations. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)

Risk/Compliance

Obama Eases Restrictions on Trade, Travel to Cuba

The new measures ease restrictions on American financial institutions and broaden Cuba’s access to the global economy

The changes, which go into effect Jan. 27, will permit more U.S. exports related to disaster preparedness, education, agricultural production, food processing, public transportation and art.

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