The failure of consumers to recycle their personal devices could lead to shortages of the precious metals needed to build new products.

Many of the supply-chain shortages caused by the coronavirus pandemic have one thing in common: a lack of plastic and cardboard containers to put them in.

The coronavirus pandemic has uncovered some unpleasant truths about the inability of global supply chains to withstand a disruption of such size and scope.

Retailers selling over the internet can’t hope to compete without a reliable and effective direct-to-consumer (DTC) model for fulfillment. But setting one up is anything but easy.

If U.S. manufacturing is to compete with cheap overseas production, it needs to attract a younger workforce with technology chops.

In an economic downturn, how do smaller businesses gain access to liquidity, which often isn’t available to them at any price?

The humble conveyor is no longer the symbol of warehouse automation. The robots are here.

The coronavirus pandemic has plunged the U.S. and global economies into dire straits.

The 17 “rare earth” minerals that are essential to so many high-tech products today, from electric cars to magnets and military systems, aren’t literally rare, but their mining and production is.

Is the word “omnichannel” another way of saying “spoiled consumer”?