Electronics

Manufacturing supply chains are the action stars of the business world. Everything depends on them, and ending up in a tight spot is not uncommon. A natural catastrophe here, a geopolitical event there, and the next thing you know, your supply chain is involved in a cliffhanger. In the wake...

No one knows better than David Mulcahy how much faster the business has become in the last 25 years. Mulcahy is Operations Manager at ­Maxell Europe. His answer: exactly 1,716 times faster. In the late 1980s, the tape in a Maxell VHS cassette crawled along at a speed of 2.33...

Digital trade is responsible for an estimated 3.4 percent to 4.8 percent boost in U.S. GDP, according to a new report released Thursday by the U.S. International Trade Commission. The report, Digital Trade in the U.S. and Global Economies, Part 2 , is the follow up to a report released...

By Pablo Seefoo A DB Schenker customer for over 10 years, this global electronics manufacturing company with annual revenues of over $4B USD was faced with a problem. Early in 2014, rumours began circulating about possible longshoremen and trucker strikes in the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, California....