How Will Global Supply Chains be Impacted by Obama’s Budget?
In his 2016 budget plan, to be unveiled today, President Obama will propose that U.S. companies’ overseas profits be taxed to fund a major boost in infrastructure spending. These tax proposals could...
View ArticleAre Driverless Trucks the Solution to the Driver Shortage?
Things are certainly changing in the trucking industry. Even though demand is rising, the industry is facing a monumental challenge in its shortage of qualified and licensed drivers. The driver...
View ArticleFAA Proposal Puts Limits on Commercial Drones Use
Look up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a remote controlled drone delivering a package to my house? It appears as though the future is here. Well, not so fast. As noted in last Friday’s...
View ArticleThis Week in Logistics News (March 7 – 13)
The unemployment rate edged down slightly in February 2015, to 5.5%. While the unemployment rate for teenagers decreased 1.7% to 17.1%, the rate for adult men (5.2%) and women (4.9%) remained...
View ArticleAntitrust Compliance Requires Increasingly Granular Supply Chain Cost Data
There is a rarely litigated – but often irritating – antitrust and distribution law known as the Robinson-Patman Act. The Act prohibits sellers from setting different prices for competing purchasers of...
View ArticleConflict Minerals Disclosure Deadline is June 1st: How Does Your Supply Chain...
Conflict minerals – Tantalum, Tin, Tungsten and Gold (3TG) – and supply chain transparency will be in the news. Monday, June 1, is the deadline for more than 6,000 Public U.S. companies to file...
View ArticleHow Bird Flu is Impacting the Egg Supply Chain
As I mentioned in last Friday’s news round-up, the United States will begin to import eggs from Europe due to a massive shortage. This marks the first time in more than a decade that the US has been...
View ArticleWhy Russia’s Agricultural Import Ban is more Supply Chain than Economics
In July the US, the European Union (EU), and select other countries instituted a number of trade and financial sanctions against Russia for its involvement in the separatist movement in neighboring...
View ArticleBolster Your Supply Chain’s Memory in Time for DQSA
In the movie Memento, the main character, Leonard Shelby, relies on tattoos and Polaroid pictures to retrace his past after amnesia wipes out his memory. He needs these details to faithfully...
View ArticleBoth Ends of the Spectrum: Amazon Pushing Drones… and Bicycles?
Earlier this year, my colleague Ralph Rio wrote an insightful and very popular article about Amazon’s interest in drones for home delivery. Amazon is continuing to push forward with their drone...
View ArticleHow Will Global Supply Chains be Impacted by Obama’s Budget?
In his 2016 budget plan, to be unveiled today, President Obama will propose that U.S. companies’ overseas profits be taxed to fund a major boost in infrastructure spending. These tax proposals could...
View ArticleAre Driverless Trucks the Solution to the Driver Shortage?
Things are certainly changing in the trucking industry. Even though demand is rising, the industry is facing a monumental challenge in its shortage of qualified and licensed drivers. The driver...
View ArticleHow Will Global Supply Chains be Impacted by Obama’s Budget?
In his 2016 budget plan, to be unveiled today, President Obama will propose that U.S. companies’ overseas profits be taxed to fund a major boost in infrastructure spending. These tax proposals could...
View ArticleAre Driverless Trucks the Solution to the Driver Shortage?
Things are certainly changing in the trucking industry. Even though demand is rising, the industry is facing a monumental challenge in its shortage of qualified and licensed drivers. The driver...
View ArticleFAA Proposal Puts Limits on Commercial Drones Use
Look up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a remote controlled drone delivering a package to my house? It appears as though the future is here. Well, not so fast. As noted in last Friday’s...
View ArticleThis Week in Logistics News (March 7 – 13)
The unemployment rate edged down slightly in February 2015, to 5.5%. While the unemployment rate for teenagers decreased 1.7% to 17.1%, the rate for adult men (5.2%) and women (4.9%) remained...
View ArticleAntitrust Compliance Requires Increasingly Granular Supply Chain Cost Data
There is a rarely litigated – but often irritating – antitrust and distribution law known as the Robinson-Patman Act. The Act prohibits sellers from setting different prices for competing purchasers of...
View ArticleConflict Minerals Disclosure Deadline is June 1st: How Does Your Supply Chain...
Conflict minerals – Tantalum, Tin, Tungsten and Gold (3TG) – and supply chain transparency will be in the news. Monday, June 1, is the deadline for more than 6,000 Public U.S. companies to file...
View ArticleHow Bird Flu is Impacting the Egg Supply Chain
As I mentioned in last Friday’s news round-up, the United States will begin to import eggs from Europe due to a massive shortage. This marks the first time in more than a decade that the US has been...
View ArticleThe Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and International Supply Chain Development
In last Friday’s “This Week in Logistics News” blog post, I mentioned that the TPP details had finally been released by the participating countries’ governments. Since Friday, I have spent a good deal...
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