What if manufacturing came back to the U.S., and there weren't enough people to fill the jobs?

Amazon.com Inc. just put another crack in the foundation that underlies traditional retail.

Logistics outsourcing may be on the rise everywhere, but Asia is where the action is.

There was a time when contract manufacturers performed one specific task: making products, usually of a high-tech nature, while staying well behind the scenes. But that time is long gone.

Regulation is usually viewed by the private sector as a burden. But sometimes it makes good business sense.

A "celebrity" chief procurement officer? Isn't that a contradiction in terms?

Free trade seems to have few friends in positions of power these days. But advocates of removing obstacles to the flow of international trade got at least one piece of good news earlier this year.

It only makes sense that The 3M Company, with a business model resting almost entirely upon technology, would eventually get around to applying it to the supply chain.

On March 29, British Prime Minister Theresa May officially set into motion the exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union, beginning a two-year period of negotiation and closure. The clock is ticking.

The ability to monitor the behavior and condition of one's suppliers depends on having access to hard numbers. But a surprisingly large percentage of companies lack this critical data.