Today's guest post is from Ayush Sharma, a Strategic Sourcing Consultant with Trade Extensions in the Americas. His particular speciality is the application of optimization to Retail Sourcing, Dedicated Transportation, 3PL Logistics Sourcing, and Direct and Indirect Materials Sourcing. Ayush has a Masters degree in Supply Chain Management from ... (Read More)
I started my career as a maintenance engineer in a leading paint manufacturing company in India. The maintenance work that we did was divided into categories such as breakdown maintenance and preventive maintenance. I still remember the words of my first manager- "we should be spending our maximum time doing preventive maintenance so that we don't ... (Read More)
China's government on Friday rejected a U.S. antidumping ruling against its makers of solar power equipment and Chinese manufacturers warned possible higher tariffs might hurt efforts to promote clean energy. (Read More)
World stocks fell Friday after credit downgrades slapped on Spanish banks unnerved investors already worried about the stability of the 17-country euro currency union. (Read More)
Japan's top three nonlife insurers posted weak results in the fiscal year ended March, hit by increased insurance payouts related to flooding in Thailand that hit Japanese manufacturing operations. (Read More)
Asian stocks dived Friday after discouraging U.S. economic reports unnerved investors already worried about the stability of the 17-country euro currency union. (Read More)
Asian markets fell heavily Friday, with Japan's stock index slumping to the lowest level in four months, as poor U.S. manufacturing data added to rising worries over Europe with Moody's downgrading 16 Spanish banks. (Read More)
The following commentary also appears on the Supply Chain Expert Community web site. About a month ago,we penned a Supply Chain Expert Community commentary reflecting on how any sort of news, positive or negative, emulating from Apple’s supply chain, can directly impact a company’s stock valuation. That applies not only to Apple itself, but also [ ... (Read More)
Applied Materials is declaring 2012 the year of the foundry, as those semiconductor-manufacturing services order tools to keep up with demand for smartphone chips. (Read More)
Japan's auto manufacturers' trade group ruled out taking coordinated steps to deal with expected power shortages this summer and warned that the strong yen has put the nation's auto industry on the brink of collapse. (Read More)
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