When Trump administration appointee Wilbur Ross sat for a hearing on his commerce secretary nomination, one name kept coming up: Toyota. A senator from Vice President Mike Pence's home state asked to be reassured trade reforms wouldn't compromise Indiana jobs. Another from Mississippi said he was "tickled to death" Corollas are built in his state.
Home goods and apparel manufacturers: Consumers are voicing their concerns. With a new president focused on protecting products born in the U.S., consumers may be looking more closely at product origins, and could demand more transparency, according to a survey conducted by Harris Poll.
A procurement project to standardize the uniform for U.K. ambulance workers is set to deliver savings of £3.4m ($4.28m) for the National Health Service.
A new report argues that supply chain audits are ineffective at improving compliance and act merely to embed an unhealthy status quo in multinational offshore sourcing.
Optimism among America's small businesses soared in December by the most since 1980 as expectations about the economy's prospects improved dramatically in the aftermath of the presidential election.