Supply Chain Insights

Bribes, and the Buyers Who Love Them

Why I don't stand for the lavish 'gifts' that OEMs and suppliers bestow on each other in the name of doing business.

Trucking Outpaced Other Transportation in Challenging Year

Trucks moved 70.9% of the value of surface trade between the U.S. and Canada and 83.8% of cross-border trade with Mexico, for a total of $695 billion worth of goods.

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Consumers Not Feeling That Optimistic

Concerns about rising prices—and, to a lesser degree, the Delta variant—were the primary drivers of the slight decline in confidence in October, says Conference Board.

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Manufacturing Grew Steadily in November as Optimism Rises

The supply of available manufacturing labor is still a major concern for many companies.

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Workers at Toyota' Manufacturing Alabama's engine plant assemble twin-turbo V-6 engines for the company's Tundra pickup.

Humbled by 2021, Auto OEMs, Suppliers Gird for Next Year's Challenges

It was a year like no other, but will 2022 be more of the same? Manufacturers talk about how they responded to supply chain snarls and talent shortages--and what they anticipate being their biggest hurdles ahead.

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Connecting Brownfield Facilities

Existing manufacturing plants are often filled with old, but still-functional equipment that have several years of service left. In this paper, learn how to make any factory a smart factory using brownfield digitalization.

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