Monthly Archives: December 2011

Experts have rated the credit outlook for the US consumer products industry as stable for 2012.

In an effort to reduce costs for businesses and promote trade Japan and China have agreed on a plan to promote the direct exchange of the yuan and yen between the two Asian giants.

The American Trucking Associations’ advance seasonally adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index increased 0.3% in November after rising a revised 0.4% in October 2011.

Demand for Enterprise Resource Management (ERM) Applications – which include procurement optimisation technologies – have jumped by more than 10% with companies globally spending an estimated $37.9 Billion in 2011.

Companies have been advised to pay “closer attention” to their vendors and suppliers in light of the recently enacted California Transparency in Supply Chains Act of 2010 (S.B. 657).