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Financial experts predict that, despite global market uncertainly, demand for key commodities will continue to hold up strongly.

Organisations that import and export goods are being urged to look more closely at how fluctuations in currency markets affect business costs.

Estimates for US containerised import growth for 2011 and 2012 have been revised downward by market watchers who warn that weaker economic data reported by the US government that will lead to a “nearly stagnant import trade” for the rest of this year.
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Sears Holdings has announced that Raj Penkar will be joining the US retail group on September 15 as senior vice president and president, supply chain.

The awful events of September 11th 2001 were unprecedented in so many tragic respects. But one of them, perhaps, could not have been foreseen by the attackers who flew aircraft into New York’s World Trade Centre and Washington’s Pentagon.

A new market report warns that the global iron and steel industries should brace themselves for a price “upsurge”.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has launched two pilot projects designed to enhance the traceability of products responsible for foodborne illness outbreaks across industry supply chains.

Unilever has claimed that it has achieved its ambition of becoming a “zero to landfill” manufacturer in the UK.

Finding and delivering savings remains the top business pressure and priority for CPOs for 2011-2014, new research has revealed.

The UK’s fourth largest supermarket chain, Morrisons, has turned its attention to its indirect spend in an effort to consolidate supply contracts, cut costs and improve performance.