Supply & Demand Chain Executive

eManifest for Highway: Regulation Comes Full Circle with Financial Penalties

Descartes Systems Group

eManifest is a virtually paperless process that enables legitimate trade to cross the Canada border more efficiently

Moving toward enforcement has been a significant challenge due to the size of the carrier and driver community. The penalty phase for highway and rail carriers for many shipments is a substantial regulatory milestone in North American compliance.

Supply Chain Education

Supply & Demand Chain Executive and Food Logistics Launch New Supply Chain Learning Center

The Supply Chain Learning Center offers over 70 courses, each customizable, covering diverse supply chain disciplines

Supply Chain Learning Center instructors are leading experts in their respective fields, offering the best education and training in the latest strategies available to streamline processes and costs, and increase profitability.

Carbon Footprint

Volkswagen Sales Drop for the First Time in 13 Years

The auto maker’s global sales fell 2 percent in 2015 as an emissions-cheating scandal hit company

Volkswagen AG said its world-wide sales declined in 2015 for the first time since 2002 in the wake of an emissions-cheating scandal that hit the company in September.

Transportation and Logistics Firms Added 23,100 Jobs in December

U.S. Department of Labor

This employment growth shows the impact of e-commerce sales and changing goods distribution demands

There were 15,100 new courier and messenger jobs in December compared to the month before, on a seasonally adjusted basis, 5,300 more trucking jobs, and 3,200 additional warehouse and storage jobs.

Risk/Compliance

Atlas Air Agrees to Settle Price-Fixing Suit

A battle over price-fixing allegations has forced air cargo carriers to pay more than $1 billion in reparations

Atlas will take a $100 million charge against fiscal fourth quarter earnings, though will make three installment payments by 2018 to settle the charges brought by dozens of air cargo customers ranging from General Electric Co. to the parent of Crate & Barrel.

Study: Trans-Pacific Trade Pact To Favor Japan, Vietnam And Malaysia

Japan, Vietnam and Malaysia are set to get a big economic boost from a sweeping Pacific trade agreement concluded in October, while the U.S. and other North American countries would see much smaller gains from the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

If the Pacific agreement is enacted, Vietnam would get the biggest percentage boost to its economy—about 10 percent by 2030—as its textiles and apparel industry gets new preferential access to the U.S. and other major markets. Japan would see extra economic growth of 2.7 percent by 2030 while the U.S. could expect additional economic growth of 0.4 percent by 2030, according to the study, released by the World Bank.

Consero’s 2016 Procurement & Strategic Sourcing Forum

New Mobile Computer Revolutionizes Warehousing, Saving an Hour per Worker per Shift

Zebra Technologies Corp.

The enterprise-class TC8000 mobile computer helps boost productivity and reduces worker fatigue

Zebra Technologies TC8000 enterprise mobile computer.

Risk/Compliance

China’s Manufacturing Initiatives Are Increasingly Coming to the U.S.

Chinese manufacturing is leveraging knowledge from foreign investment to help move into higher-value production

Risk/Compliance

Five Supply Chain Resolutions for an Agile 2016

Companies need to break the rigid linear operations mindset into more flexible approaches that best use resources

Amy Clark

Risk/Compliance

Minimize Effects of Product Recalls with Improved Supply Chain Communication

CloudCraze, LLC, division of Salesforce

Suppliers can minimize damages with a commerce platform that enables communication across the supply chain

Chris Dalton

Risk/Compliance

A Look Back at 2015 for Supply Chains

Procurement and logistics managers had to deal with disruptions that threatened inventory across the world

Amy Clark

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