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Week in Review: Steel Production, Earnings Reports and Gold – Steel, Aluminum, Copper, Stainless, Rare Earth, Metal Prices, Forecasting  MetalMiner

Before we head into the weekend, let’s take a look back at the week that was and some of the metals storylines here on MetalMiner: Global crude steel …

Use TCO as a Sales Tool Against Offshore Competitors  EPS News

Sixty percent of companies make offshore-sourcing decisions based on rudimentary metrics, such as wage rate, ex-works price or landed cost.

Trip Report: NRF Big Show 2019 in New York City  Supply Chain Digest

Ok, I am just back from the National Retail Federation’s Big Show at the Javitz Center in New York City. Despite the turmoil in much of retail right now – or maybe …

Supply Chain News: Challenges Remain, but Autonomous Delivery Vehicles Likely to Come Before Driverless Cars  Supply Chain Digest

The march towards autonomous vehicles – from ocean container ships to farm equipment – continues on. But, a new report from the Wall Street Journal says we …

RFID, AIDC and IoT: A Look Back at the 10 Commandments of Bar Coding  Supply Chain Digest

A strange as it may seem for today’s generation, in the early days of bar coding (1980s and through much of the 1990s), the technology had many pitfalls.

A Supply Chain Christmas Wish List for 2018  Supply Chain Digest

For the past many years, for my last First Thoughts column of the year I have generally been oscillating between my versions of “A Supply Chain Christmas …

Supply Chain News: What Countries are Tops in Logistics 2018?  Supply Chain Digest

Bi-Annual World Bank Logistics Performance Index Puts Germany On Top Again; US Falls to 14th Place.

They will not “reshore” to the US either, as production costs are too high. Instead, they will decamp elsewhere in Asia, and to countries with a strong manufacturing base not facing increasing America…
Global Supply Chain News: China is Taking Industrial Espionage to Never Seen before Levels  Supply Chain Digest

Chinese Manufacturer Can’t Make Chips, So It Simply Steal Billions Worth of IP from Micron Technology.

Fortunately, manufacturers have turned to new strategies such as nearshoring and reshoring to battle such challenges. This is why it still makes sense to bet on select stocks from the sector at …