A raw deal for steel producers

In some ways it was inevitable. If commodity prices are rising, and, according to current market data, they are on many fronts, then perhaps many are seeing the final days of being able to squeeze recessionary prices out of suppliers. For them at least, the balance is already shifting.

AMR Answers Top-of-Mind Questions from Recent Webinar

In the recent webinar, Correcting Your Spend Vision with Visibility, Mickey North Rizza, research director with AMR Research, discussed implementing spend visibility tools to bring more spend under management, gaining competitive advantage through analytics. During the webinar, we received three really great questions from our audience, and wanted to share Mickey’s responses covering maverick spend, data [...]

Supply Chain Audits

Apple recently issued its annual Supplier Responsibility report for 2010 and they are getting some bad press for it.   IT blogger Engadget writes, "The findings are pretty damning on the whole, with more than half (54 percent) of all factories failing to meet Apple's already inflated maximum 60-hour work week, 24 percent paying less than the minimum wage, 37 percent failing to respect

Vintage IBM Logistics

A few years ago I came across some vintage photos of IBM shipping hardware in Italy, including on a gondola in Venice.  Thanks to my colleague in Haifa another great photo featuring the now defunct PAA or Pan American Airways. Below is the IBM 305 RAMAC, the first 'SUPER' computer with a hard disk drive (HDD).  The HDD weighed over a ton and stored a 'whopping' 5 MB of data. Compare that to your

Survey: Companies enlisting compliance services

A new survey finds that companies are taking the impact of emerging regulations on their...

Politicians demand action on U.S.-Mexico cross-border trucking program, says report

A group of 56 members of Congress this week penned a letter to United States Trade...