Prices on August contract light sweet crude continue to climb on the New York Mercantile exchange as Tropical Storm Cindy continues to pour water on the Gulf Coast.
Outsourcing Offshore Supply Chain Management What It Is And What It Isn’t
Outsourcing is having work or an activity done by people who are not employees of the company. It is not new in logistics. Outsourcing existed before the topic earned a name and became business chic.
Oil Prices Steady While Saudis Cover Supply
Light sweet crude settled at $48.97 up 36 cents for the day on Tuesday after dropping to $47.60 on Monday. Prices steadied today after promises to cover demand from OPEC and Saudi Arabia and expectations of U.S. inventory growth in the U.S. Dept. of Energy Report on Wednesday.
Sarbanes-Oxley and Supply Chain Management
What is Sarbanes-Oxley, and what does it have to do with supply chain management? Those are good questions. And the answers are-an act passed by Congress and plenty.
Calpine and Mitsui Enter Clean Energy Supply Contract With OPA
Calpine and Mitsui have jointly entered into a 20-year Clean Energy Supply Contract with the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) to provide clean energy from a new 1,005-megawatt natural gas-fired power plant.
Create Supply Chain Value Proposition With Yield Management And Supplier Management
Supply chain management (SCM) executives struggle with what their responsibility and role is. SCM crosses the organization. It is both strategic and tactical. It serves both cost and service mandates.
RubberNetwork Supply Chain Results
Philip J. Ringo, Chairman and CEO of RubberNetwork LLC, the Global Tire and Rubber Industry Consortium owned by nine of the largest global Tire and Rubber Industry companies, announced year-end results for the company.
Global Supply Chain Networking Solution
SoftBrands has a vision for a global supply chain networking solution which will provide manufacturers with a tightly-woven all- encompassing framework for compliance with global data pools such as UCCnet.
Supply Chain Security and Efficiency
Unisys is launching an innovative, standards-based architecture designed to address the escalating worldwide need to improve the visibility, security and efficiency of supply chains.
Outsourcing Supply Chain Management 3 Issues to Go Beyond Buyer-Seller Relationship
Companies outsource for many reasons. They look to reduce costs, shorten cycle time, improve shareholder value, decrease inventory, focus on core competencies, gain information technology, increase expertise and more.