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Boeing starts moving through 737 inventory backlog after FAA allows return to service

Spirit AeroSystems, Boeing's largest supplier, said it would lag Boeing's production rate by five shipsets as it works through its own inventory buildup.

By Matt Leonard • Jan. 29, 2021

Nestlé sets goal of 100% responsibly sourced coffee by 2025

The company requires farmer groups and suppliers to adopt practices aligned with Nestlé’s Responsible Sourcing Standards.

By A.B. Brown • Jan. 29, 2021

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The Supply Chain Dive Outlook on 2021

The early parts of 2021 reveal a continuation of 2020's trends, making it clear the pandemic will affect the supply chain ecosystem long term. 

By Supply Chain Dive staff

Opinion

A moral monopoly: The difference between supplier-performance management and bullying

Businesses must reevaluate the highly unequal distribution of risk and reward.

By Kim van der Weerd • Jan. 28, 2021

3M increases N95 production rate to 2.5B annually

The ability to expand production of personal protective equipment is thanks, in part, to 3M's agile supply chain and shorter cycle times, the CEO said.

By Shefali Kapadia • Jan. 28, 2021

Is Lunar New Year the turning point for equipment shortages?

Manufacturers are operating at full capacity to produce containers. It's just a matter of moving the new equipment to where it's needed.

By Matt Leonard • Jan. 27, 2021

Deep Dive

The pandemic put supply chains front and center for retailers — perhaps for the first time

Retail supply chains came under intense strain and went through wild convolutions last year. To weather the next storm, the industry must be agile and take risk seriously.

By Ben Unglesbee • Jan. 25, 2021

Pandemic parcel dynamics drive a new shipper hierarchy

In a world where parcel carriers choose which volume they carry, some shippers will win capacity and some will lose. Skill and investment will determine the winners.

By Emma Cosgrove • Jan. 25, 2021

US nitrile glove factory to triple production by 2022

Raw materials suppliers, manufacturers and distributors are weighing longer contracts and new relationships after a tumultuous year in the personal protective equipment supply chain.

By Emma Cosgrove • Jan. 22, 2021

Timberland, Vans parent maps supply chains through tier 4

Poor visibility has plagued apparel supply chains for years, but VF's detailed data collection and mapping signals advancements in traceability.

By A.B. Brown • Jan. 21, 2021

BNSF: Network redundancy key to intermodal speed

The railroad's new CEO, Katie Farmer, discussed adding redundancy at a time when other railroads see whittling away at network assets as the more in-vogue option.

By Matt Leonard • Jan. 21, 2021

California proposes points system to hold warehouses accountable for truck emissions

Road transport has been at the forefront of Southern California's emissions crackdown, but it's also one of the most challenging areas for supply chains to curb given the involvement of external parties.

By S.L. Fuller • Jan. 20, 2021

How Dick's and Wayfair connect consumers with real-time inventory data

The pandemic upped the stakes for data accuracy, as well as the velocity and volume at which it needed to flow.

By Emma Cosgrove • Jan. 19, 2021

BDO: 50% of manufacturers plan to secure backup suppliers in 2021

Many manufacturers are rethinking their sourcing because of tariffs and high shipping costs, though they're treading cautiously on implementing wholesale changes during the pandemic.

By A.B. Brown • Jan. 14, 2021

Loves Furniture declares bankruptcy following shipping issues, Penske Logistics dispute

Loves leadership says it has "too much inventory and too little cash" to operate its stores. 

By Ben Unglesbee • Jan. 13, 2021

Deep Dive

Damco is gone. Where do Maersk, freight forwarders and shippers go from here?

Shippers face a choice as they plan freight strategies: the simplicity of a single end-to-end provider or the reduced risk of a diversified carrier network.

By Shefali Kapadia • Jan. 13, 2021

Deep Dive

Packaging, PPE and surgical supplies: How COVID-19 is pushing hospitals to reduce waste

Some waste is inevitable, but supply chain leaders are finding ways to reduce the quantity — reusing and recycling when possible and adjusting procurement and packaging.

By Deborah Abrams Kaplan • Jan. 12, 2021

Supply chains struggle to procure nitrile gloves after manufacturer shutdown

MSC Industrial reported an impairment charge for a prepaid glove order that has still not been delivered, in another example of how the pandemic has challenged procurement teams. 

By Emma Cosgrove • Jan. 11, 2021

Opinion

To boost earnings, focus on supplier spend — not job cuts

It's an area often overlooked, even by senior business leaders, when employee costs are a relatively small portion of most big companies' budgets, the author writes.

By Simon Geale • Jan. 05, 2021

How the mad dash for PPE pushed supply chains to keep up

When thousands of organizations needed personal protective equipment during the pandemic, it was up to supply chain professionals to make inventory accessible.

By S.L. Fuller • Dec. 23, 2020

Pfizer vaccine deliveries turned around after becoming too cold

Real-time tracking alerted Pfizer to the temperature diversion. The returned doses number about 3,000, a spokesperson said.

By Matt Leonard • UPDATED: Dec. 18, 2020 at 2:47 p.m.

Parcel 2020: The year of surcharges, volume caps and peak on top of peak

E-commerce shipments started to flood logistics networks as early as May.

By Shefali Kapadia • Dec. 18, 2020

Opinion

As supply chains reshore, regional networks will be key to resiliency

Fully onshoring electronics manufacturing can be impossible, so the industry will need to reevaluate how products go from raw materials to consumers' hands, the author writes.

By John Mitchell • Dec. 17, 2020

US enforcement covers a third of cotton produced with forced labor from Xinjiang: report

New evidence of forced Uighur labor used to pick cotton in China's Xinjiang province suggests that more cotton exported from that region is exposed to salve labor that previously confirmed.

By Emma Cosgrove • Dec. 17, 2020

Column

The newest supplier KPI? Employee vaccination rate.

While it will take some time for the entire population to get vaccinated, incremental and growing business compliance will be a key performance indicator worth tracking.

By Rich Weissman • Dec. 17, 2020

COVID-19 vaccine supply chain has cyberthreats hidden in plain sight

The one thing all supply chain operators and pharmaceutical companies essential to vaccine distribution have in common is cyberthreats. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Dec. 16, 2020