Wal-Mart Giving Mixed Signals as They Cut Back on Supplier Orders While Inventories Pile Up

Wal-Mart Giving Mixed Signals as They Cut Back on Supplier Orders While Inventories Pile Up

Is the retail giant losing customer sales? Or maybe they’re just cutting back on general merchandise orders to make room for holiday items? Perhaps they simply lack the staff to get all the inventory out of the back storage room and onto the floors and shelves? Whatever the reason, the fact is Wal-Mart has sent…

How One Internet Retailer Solved Their Logistics Issues

How One Internet Retailer Solved Their Logistics Issues

ASOS.com is an online fashion retailer, offering 60,000 products, including womenswear, menswear, footwear, accessories, jewellery and beauty. They offer both brand names and own label merchandise. The retailer rolls out about 1,500 new product lines per week. They service 6.5 million active customers, with about 23 million new customers visiting their website each month. ASOS deals…

Auto Workers in South Don’t Want the Union, But That Isn’t Stopping UAW
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Auto Workers in South Don’t Want the Union, But That Isn’t Stopping UAW

When the Rust Belt in Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, and other northern, heavily unionized states began to decline and lose jobs to non-unionized right to work states in the south, such as Tennessee, Texas, Mississippi, and Alabama, many blamed the unions. Even as automakers struggled financially, unions hurt their chances of survival…

CEO of Bentley Motors Speaks Out About Lack of Supply Chain

CEO of Bentley Motors Speaks Out About Lack of Supply Chain

The chief executive officer of luxury automotive manufacturer Bentley Motors, Dr. Wolfgang Schreiber, has spoken publically about the country’s lack of basic supplier infrastructure when it comes to supplying needed parts for automakers. According to Schreiber, the country’s government is doing a good thing by providing £1 for the into low-carbon engines for their automotive makers, but…

Government Shutdown, Pirates, and Acts of Terrorism Complicate Shipping Trade
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Government Shutdown, Pirates, and Acts of Terrorism Complicate Shipping Trade

The government shutdown, combined with new acts of terrorism along the Suez canal, and the normal incidents of piracy combine to complicate shipping endeavors worldwide. According to sources at the Port of Savannah, where all eleven Suez shipping services call upon for shipments to the eastern coast of the United States, 6,000 of the approximate…

Ship Builders Flood Market With New Vessels Just as Panama Canal Expansion Lessens Need

Ship Builders Flood Market With New Vessels Just as Panama Canal Expansion Lessens Need

According to Joachim Grieg & Co., just as the widened Panama Canal increases vessel capacity and reduces the number of vessels needed to transport liquid petroleum gasses from the United States to Asia, ship builders are flooding the market with new ships. Together, the situations could lead to the eventual collapse of the shipping industry’s…

Packaging Becomes a Highly Desirable Trait Heading Forward

Packaging Becomes a Highly Desirable Trait Heading Forward

Package engineering has long been the least glamorous element of manufacturing. It isn’t as snazzy as marketing, is less glorious than production, and not seemingly as challenging as transportation. But package engineering is emerging as a sought after degree in business schools, and the impacts of smart package design go beyond purely functional, playing into…

Trends in Trucking Indicate Both Good and Bad News for the Future of the Economy

Trends in Trucking Indicate Both Good and Bad News for the Future of the Economy

According to the American Trucking Association, truck freight rose slightly (1.4 percent) during the month of August. This comes on the heels of a slight downturn in July (0.6 percent), but is the third month within the past four months that freight rose, which is a positive indicator. 

UPS Conducts Survey of UK Online Shoppers and Finds Some Interesting Trends
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UPS Conducts Survey of UK Online Shoppers and Finds Some Interesting Trends

The global package delivery giant UPS has concluded a survey of European online shoppers, and the results may be interesting to online retailers all over the world. As more consumers are willing to shop online, and fewer depend solely on brick and mortar stores for their businesses, it is important to know what online shoppers…