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Supply chain productivity initiatives have helped Dr Pepper Snapple Group to boost sales, offsetting the adverse impact of commodity hedging losses during the “challenging times” of its third financial quarter.

Vince Cable (pictured), the UK’s business secretary, has announced that his department will invest £25m in manufacturing supply chains according to the Financial Times, as he looks for ways to help the renewable, aerospace and rail industries in the U…

A landmark $8bn deal has been struck to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the US as the UK’s BG Group signed an agreement with Cheniere Energy to ship gas all over the world for the next 20 years.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has awarded a contract for the creation of a protocol to aid the screening of cargo at US ports.

Ford Motor Company has reported that recent commodity market volatility has not put the brakes on profitability for its last financial quarter, despite suffering from “unfavourable” commodity hedging.

As reports suggest that over a thousand of Thailand’s factories have been closed due to exceptional flooding, supply chain disruption has once again been in the news. While on the surface it’s created all sorts of problems for those sourcing from Thail…

Almost a third of US companies admit the greatest systemic threat to their operations comes from supply chain risk.

US construction activity increased by 2.7% on an annual basis in September, according to new estimates.

Procurement chiefs from companies as diverse as Unilever, BP Angola, Thomson Reuters and Molnlycke Health Care, talked up the importance of contributing value to the business beyond cost savings as executives gathered in the Hofburg in Vienna for the P…

Procurement chiefs from companies as diverse as Unilever, BP Angola, Thomson Reuters and Molnlycke Health Care, talked up the importance of contributing value to the business beyond cost savings as executives gathered in the Hofburg in Vienna for the P…