The inaugural edition of the Global Supply Chain Marketing Summit has launched, bringing top-level marketing executives together to network and discuss successful strategies in promoting supply chain products, services and solutions.

The new program includes incentives for Amazon vendors that are able to cut down on extra layers of packaging they use for shipments.

Although technology is very important, business process management is more critical to running a successful supply chain says Leo Salomons, head of value engineering for the Americas at Mavim.

While large warehouses can have entire teams devoted to technology and new, innovative solutions, most small businesses don’t have that luxury.

Of the 61 companies that constitute Tesla’s “storage battery” category, thirty-nine percent of them were Chinese, making China the organization's biggest supplier of lithium-ion battery materials.

Rio said it had struck a deal with Guinea and the Winning Consortium Simandou to develop the 600 kilometers of rail lines needed to transport the iron ore.

Under the revised investment rules, automakers will need to commit to producing at least 40% of the content of EVs in Indonesia by 2026 to qualify for incentives.

Talks are focused on enabling Codelco’s Andina mine and Anglo’s Los Bronces to tap rich ore grades sitting between the two operations.

One in five importers from outside the U.K. have had to change their supply chains due to geopolitical tensions while another 15% are considering supply chain alterations.

Ericsson said the recently opened venue is the company’s first 5G manufacturing facility to be located in Southeast Asia.