TMA’s Nov 16 E-News Bulletin included the following story from Harvard Business Review: Most risks to supply chains are predictable. That means that companies can and should be prepared to handle them. It entails taking ...
From Transport Topics News – American Trucking Associations has sent a letter to the Biden administration expressing “grave concern” over the potential damage that the president’s plans for a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for many businesses ...
From Industry Week – The U.S. transportation secretary on Sunday warned that America’s supply chain woes including clogged ports will drag into next year, potentially cramping the upcoming holiday shopping season in the world’s largest ...
MHLNews reports on President Biden’s efforts with major retailers such as WalMart, Target and Home Depot to correct supply chain woes as the crisis mounts: “Never again should our country and our economy be unable ...
CHICAGO – Nicole Wolter, TMA Board Treasurer and President of HM Manufacturing, was interviewed last week on NTD News about the September manufacturing jobs report and supply chain issues. The interviewer mentioned a one percent ...
The Illinois Manufacturing Excellence Center (IMEC) partnered with the Technology & Manufacturing Association and other state manufacturing groups in a joint effort to survey their members as to how they were handling the pandemic demands ...
With recent murmurings of chip shortages easing through to 2022, one could be forgiven for imagining some sort of promised land where prices return to the lower levels once remembered. Unfortunately, that idea will have to be ...
When TMA asked members in July what their primary pain points were, their responses were the following: “International logistics and inflation.” “Supply chain and costs.” “Supply chain issues.” “Access to needed materials.” “Decreased availability of ...
A measure of U.S. manufacturing activity surged in June likely as steel and aluminum tariffs caused disruptions to the supply chains, resulting in factories taking longer to deliver goods. The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) ...
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