As the North American marketplace is expanding, manufacturers are working on getting the most from their trade relationships. For clear financial reasons, the U.S. relies on neighbors, Canada and Mexico for exporting goods, importing source materials and locating manu… Read More
The recent stock market decline had many investors worried this week when the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 58 points, or 0.4%, to 16596 and the S&P 500 was down 0.2%.
It was, in fact, the most volatile week in markets in years and investors also worried about the downtu… Read More
At MEP Supply Chain, we want to ensure that manufacturer’s have a competitive advantage in their supply chain optimization for a more secure and successful future.
For so long, supply chains have processed and moved goods from one end to another but while every manufactur… Read More
How often do you game plan for parts of your supply chain to break?
One of the risk management areas I dealt with early in my Air Force career was disaster response. In that capacity, we routinely planned and conducted disaster response exercises to ensure that … Read More
Fix it, of course. Though that’s never as easy as it sounds.
Supply chain disruptions are not a matter of if, but when. High-impact events that were once considered very low probability — “black swan” events — sometimes seem to be al… Read More
