Browsing: Power Shift

Automotive supply chains are entering a different operating era. The familiar pattern of annual plans, monthly reviews and weekly adjustments…

MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company has broadened its smart container programme and the Horizon visibility platform, pushing further into the kind…

Across Africa’s mining sector, the debate over productivity is shifting. The old focus on pushing harder, lifting throughput and adding…

The recent air traffic control failure at UK airports offered a stark reminder that modern supply chains can be highly…

By the time SAP Taulia’s CFO urged finance leaders to rethink working capital on 1 September, suppliers had already spent…

Medical-device manufacturers are being pushed towards tighter oversight of suppliers just as the definition of a “critical” vendor is widening.…

Best Buy has raised its annual forecasts after a quarter in which pricier computers helped lift sales, but the more…

Samsung Electro-Mechanics is tightening its grip on suppliers as it pushes deeper into AI infrastructure and automotive electronics, sending chief…

America’s data-centre building spree is running into a labour wall as much as a materials one. In a survey released…

Recent events in West Africa have shown that the weakest point in a farm-to-factory chain is often not production, but…

Containers that once took little more than a month to arrive are now taking well over two, and Milano by…

As CEMS-Global’s four-day textile exhibition in Dhaka drew to a close on Saturday, 5 September, industry figures used one of…

For US procurement teams weighing fabricated aluminium components for a new programme, the decisive questions are usually practical rather than…

Federal contracting is entering a more demanding phase, and small businesses are being pushed to adapt quickly. As Yolanda Goodloe…

When upstream operators merge, the vendor shake-out often begins long before the deal is fully integrated. Procurement teams are rarely…