- 1. Tracking Supply Chain Performance
- (News)
- New MerQube Freight Waves Index tracks the performance of the supply chain and logistics industry, reports FreightWaves. The MerQube FreightWaves Supply Chain Tech Index — the first index to track the ...
- 2. Government Seeks to Secure Supply Chain
- (News)
- Recent cracks in the US microelectronics supply chain have lead the Defense Department to use its DARPA program to find ways to secure the US supply chain, reports HPC Wire. A three-year-old Defense ...
- 3. 2019 Sustainable Procurement Barometer: Sustainable Supply Chain Awareness Grows, 'Compliance Trap' Hinders Progress and Business Impac
- (News)
- ... impact. Other key findings include: Executive-level support has increased significantly. In 2013, the number one obstacle facing procurement teams was executive and board support (50%). Today, leadership ...
- 4. Sustainable Supply Chain Awareness Grows, 'Compliance Trap' Hinders Progress and Business Impac
- (News)
- ... impact. Other key findings include: Executive-level support has increased significantly. In 2013, the number one obstacle facing procurement teams was executive and board support (50%). Today, leadership ...
- 5. Is Amazon a Supply Chain Company?
- (Supply)
- ... why shouldn’t he? According to a study by Wolfe Research - UPS made up 49% of Amazon’s shipping and delivery in 2013. Today, that number has been slashed to a mere 22%, with Amazon itself making up an ...
- 6. Should EDI be outsourced?
- (EDI)
- ... of internal personnel issues, hardware and software support, and even connectivity issues from internal budgets to predictable contractual agreements. In fact, in a 2013 report, Gartner estimated that ...
- 7. Supply Chain Pros Say Data Loss Is Greatest Risk
- (Technology)
- ... fall victim to a successful cyber-attack within the next 12 months, an increase of 13 percent since the last survey in 2013. Over 800 security professionals worldwide participated in that poll. Further ...
- 8. Iceland Hot On Electronic Invoicing
- (Management)
- ... companies to adopt e-invoicing as well.” The move is based on recommendations issued by Iceland’s Government Efficiency Group (GEG). In 2013, that group was tasked with devising ways for the government ...
- 9. Supply Chain Predictions for 2015
- (Supply)
- ... hype cycle by the end of 2013 and there weren’t many negatives out there to impact them. The only real question was whether Amazon’s push into drone delivery was a marketing ploy. However, throughout ...
- 10. ec-bp.com's Best of 201
- (Blogs)
- 2014 is almost in the books and it’s been a wild ride! We’ve posted a lot of articles and blogs that we hope have been useful to you this year. As usual, we like to go back and see what piqued your interest ...
- 11. What Happens After Walmart?
- (Management)
- At this point the news that the retail giant's same-store-sales number are in a decline. That's been reported since mid 2013. But the fact that the trend is continuing amid otherwise (relatively) strong ...
- 12. Slave Labor Plays Prominent Role In Worldwide Supply Chain
- (Supply)
- According to Verite, a think tank whose mission is promoting the ethical treatment of laborers worldwide, at least one in three foreign workers who responded to their recently released survey on slave ...
- 13. Is the New Retail Paradigm "BrickLine"
- (Retail)
- As long as we're making up words to describe retail strategies, how about 'Brickline' that is the combination of 'brick and mortar' and 'online'. If we look around us, there is a natural migration to the ...
- 14. Number Of European E-Invoices Skyrocketed In 2013
- (Management)
- ... 2013. That number signifies an increase of 19 percent from figures from the year 2012, when 706 million e-invoices were processed and delivered. The survey, which was the EESPA’s first annual among its ...
- 15. Product Safety in Your Supply Chain
- (Supply)
- ... when your products arrive, are you certain they meet all the safety and regulatory constraints that make them safe to sell? In 2013 alone there were 28 million product recalls. If you were involved with ...
- 16. EDIINT, VANs, But Not SaaS?
- (EDI)
- One of the most frequently asked questions regarding EDI is about its cost. There's the initial cost of startup and the ongoing cost per transaction. And while startup costs are relatively easy to calculate, ...
- 17. Costa Rica Restarts Efforts At E-Invoicing Following Failure Of Five-Year Experiment
- (Management)
- ... However, in 2013, The Directorate General of Taxation created his own software for e-invoicing and announced his plans to introduce a pilot program based on it in early 2013. The pilot program required ...
- 18. Tags Limit Visibility
- (Technology)
- ... found in 2013 only 2/3 of inbound goods carried barcodes. Moreover, the study projected that it won't be till 2018 that the percentage of inbound goods with barcodes attached will reach 83%. If it takes ...
- 19. Time To Cry For Argentina: Government Cracks Down On Foreign E-Commerce
- (Management)
- ... that nearly 1.5 million Argentineans bought items from foreign websites in 2013, nearly doubling the number of people who made similar purchases in 2012. In an attempt to introduce restrictions on these ...
- 20. The Cloud IS the Way... Really?
- (Technology)
- ... The report he sites shows just a 3.8% growth in 2013. That's an increase over the very moderate growth rate of 2.2% in 2012. What's going on here that's different? It's that the ERP vendors that make up these ...
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