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The number one concern among international CEOs is supply chain failure, according to the recent 2014 Chubb Multinational Risk Survey. Supply chain risks trumped the year’s staggering cyber security breaches, global political upsets and increasing

Another video featuring a package delivery person behaving badly made the national news in April. This time the culprit worked not for an esteemed parcel delivery service but for the U.S. Postal Service. While the private services fired workers who

Media Recovery, Inc., a portfolio company of Capital Southwest Corporation (Nasdaq:CSWC), announced the acquisition by its ShockWatch division of ShockLog Impact and Environmental Recorders from The IMC Group, a manufacturer of electronic and

Cargo handling can get rough. Accidents happen and people make mistakes but, sometimes, the magnitude of the slip-ups is simply jaw-dropping.

Be alert to drops and other impacts that affect calibration.

The new ShockWatch 2 impact monitor helps shippers reduce costs and accurately assign accountability for damage.

I continue to be amazed by the number of unrecovered claims and the burden of proof required…not just the burden of documentation needed to file the claim, but the proof required to justify a change in SOPs (standard operating procedures) to stop

Workers who know they are being observed and rewarded for it are more productive than those who are not. Productivity experts learned this in the 1920s and 1930s, naming the principle after the company they were studying – Western Electric

Many companies today outsource some aspects of their manufacturing operations to third-party specialists to realize cost advantages and to open new markets. The result is a very sophisticated, multi-tier, global and multi-enterprise supply network

Boosting supply chain efficiency using tested methods