When it comes to vetting suppliers, playing by the numbers might well be the best way to go.

Keeping online buyers happy is easy. All you have to do is flood the channel with so much inventory that you're never out of stock. And probably go out of business in the process.

It makes sense that a running shoe would stand for an increase in the speed with which manufacturers can "print" products on demand.

Is there any aspect of the e-commerce buying experience that Amazon.com Inc. doesn't want to directly control?

Global businesses are still experiencing the aftereffects of the Great Recession of 2007-2009. But perhaps no sector has felt the pain more acutely than mid-market suppliers.

Cryptocurrency: The very word suggests shady dealings. But a new purveyor of an alternative digital payment method - to put it in more mundane terms - is seeking to change that.

It takes a lot of time and energy to turn around one of those massive new containerships in mid-ocean. The same goes for reversing the assumptions that led to the construction of those behemoths in the first place.

Supply-chain has gone to the cloud. The only question is: What took it so long?

Without question, technology has been a boon to global trade. But it's also responsible for raising the risk factor at every stage of the supply chain - and especially at ports and terminals.

The electronic air waybill (eAWB) has arrived. But certain air freight forwarders and carriers are still holding on to the paper version for dear life.