A Persistent Theme- Be Prepared for a Year of Continual Supply Chain Analysis

If our readers have had the opportunity to review all of our 2017 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains, you probably picked-up on a dominant theme, that being the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States, and what that could imply for U.S. global trade policies and consequent industry supply chain […]

Report that Alibaba Has Taken Majority Control of India’s Paytm

One of our 2017 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains called for Amazon and Alibaba to continue to position for global online platform dominance, and we further predicted that both would remain cautious to perceptions of outright head-to-head competition. We concurred with Asia based business observers that one of the primary battle grounds this […]

An Update Concerning Foxconn

We wanted to provide our readers an update from a recent Supply Chain Matters posting citing a report indicating that a Sharp Foxconn U.S. plant announcement was imminent.  This week, The Wall Street Journal reported that while Foxconn was still interested in building a large-scale flat-panel U.S. manufacturing facility, its iconic Chairmen is challenging U.S. […]

Reminders from This Week’s AWS Network Outage

Readers may be aware that on Tuesday of this week, Amazon Web Services (AWS) encountered an hours-long services outage at a major U.S. East Coast data center complex that affected large numbers of web users and a fair number of Cloud services customers. Reports of major system outages have gained higher visibility of-late because of […]

Supply Chain by the Numbers for Week of March 1, 2017

Cost of Manufacturing Regulations is Very High, NAM CEO Says, Wendys Replacing Employees with Kiosks, Many Years Since the US has Seen 3 Percent Economic Growth, Jersey Warehouse Marker Red Hot

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