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A new study reveals the extent to which companies are ignoring sustainability in their procurement operations.

Global executives are targeting supply chain and manufacturing costs as the biggest areas to achieve cost savings this year, a Boston Consulting Group survey reveals.

Boston Consulting Group report finds that 65% of executives are prioritizing supply chain and manufacturing costs.

Years of geopolitical uncertainty and high US tariffs are driving manufacturing out of China and into new destinations.

India has seen a 44% increase in exports to the U.S. as American companies looking to diversify their supply chains turn away from China.

A new report from Boston Consulting Group (BCG) observes how companies can learn from the pandemic and design resilient global supply chains. BCG’s new report outlines how companies must build more resilience into their manufacturing and supply networks—even if that resilience leads to extra costs.

In this paper, Boston Consulting Group details how facing turbulent and fast-changing markets, innovators need a well-tuned innovation system that can spot emerging product, service, and business model opportunities - and then rapidly develop and successfully scale them - over and over again.

According to Boston Consulting Group, these companies are serial innovators and have managed to create innovation systems to perpetually foster creativity and agility, it’s an intentional, laborious process - but when done right, the payoff can be huge.

Boston Consulting Group (BCG) report observes that the rate of blockchain adoption is slower than expected, even though the technology has some clear potential benefits in the freight transportation and logistics marketplace.

While the emergence of blockchain technology within the freight transportation and logistics marketplace has gained a significant amount of traction in recent years, a report recently issued by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) observes that rate of blockchain adoption is slower than expected, even though the technology has some clear potential benefits.

Walmart, the nation’s largest private employer with nearly 1.5 million associates in the U.S., discusses company plans to create American jobs and invest in local communities across the country.

This report, the first in a series, examines the economic trends that point to a U.S. manufacturing renaissance. It also explores the strategic implications of the shifting cost equation for companies engaged in global sourcing.

The Panama Canal welcomed the largest capacity vessel to-date to transit the expanded locks, Hapag-Lloyd's Valparaiso Express, the 10,589 TEU Neopanamax containership was specifically built to take advantage of the greater capacity offered by the Expanded Panama Canal.

Bigger ships could mean bigger paydays for commodity producers when the expanded Panama Canal opens today as they can utilize larger vessels more frequently to tap into fast growing Asia-Pacific consumer markets.

The MIT Media Lab encourages mash-ups of seemingly disparate research areas, and the lab’s director, Joi Ito, shares his views on innovation, science, and technology.