Regulation & Compliance

The Road to Supply Chain Resilience Is Paved With Cyber Asset Management

May 26, 2022

Keith Neilson, SCB Contributor

Advanced cyber asset management is the backbone of this visibility and traceability.

Baby Formula Shortage Shows Risk of U.S. Industry Concentration

May 25, 2022

Bloomberg

Decades of market consolidation in the U.S. have resulted in problems like the one millions of American families are now facing. Four companies — Abbott, Perrigo, Nestle and Mead Johnson — control 90% of the U.S. supply of formula.

Want to Put a Stop to Counterfeit Goods? Take a Picture

May 23, 2022

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

Can computer vision and machine learning finally bring an end to the scourge of counterfeit products?

If Tesla Isn’t Good Enough for an ESG Index, Then Who Is?

May 20, 2022

Bloomberg

Tesla Inc.’s removal this week from an industry benchmark index is raising new questions about what ESG actually means to investors.

Biden Invokes Emergency Powers to Try to Ease Formula Shortage

May 18, 2022

Bloomberg

President Biden invoked emergency powers under the Defense Production Act to try and boost production of baby formula, while ordering the use of government planes for imports to alleviate shortages.

Four Steps to Developing a Scope 3 Emissions Program

May 18, 2022

Brandon Owens, SupplyChainBrain Contributor

It's a matter of when — not if — U.S. companies will be required to report carbon emissions, including those from their supply chains.

FDA Announces Steps to Help Boost Baby-Formula Supply

May 17, 2022

Bloomberg

Abbott Laboratories reached a pact with U.S. authorities that would allow it to begin making baby formula again at a troubled plant in Michigan, a move that could help ease a supply shortfall that has rattled many parents.

MOST-READ ARTICLES OF 2022

Get Ready for the Next Phase of ESG: Mandatory Corporate Due Diligence

May 17, 2022

Helen Atkinson, Senior Editor

Large corporations face a whole new world of demands affecting their public-facing supply chain strategies, backed by potentially powerful and wide-ranging legislation that takes aim at due diligence.

Why Higher Wages Alone Won’t Solve the Supply Chain Labor Shortage

May 16, 2022

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

Higher wages aren’t necessarily the answer to solving the supply chain labor shortage — at least that’s what employers today are hoping.

U.S., EU Plan to Pledge Supply Chain Cooperation to Counter Russia

May 13, 2022

Bloomberg

The U.S. and European Union plan to keep addressing supply chain and other disruptions as they project a unified front against Russia when high-level officials meet starting Sunday to discuss cooperation on trade and technology issues in Paris.