Archive for Global Trade – Page 4

Kichler Lighting is a family-owned company that designs, engineers, markets and distributes lighting solutions. Kichler does not sell directly to consumers. While the company does sell products through the large home improvement retailers, the bulk of its products are distributed to other retail customers, such as showrooms, electrical distributors, landscape lighting distributors, and catalogue and online retailers. In the US and Canada, the company fulfills orders out of… Continue reading

This morning I attended a great presentation and discussion led by Bindiya Vakil, President and Co-Founder of Resilinc, on supply chain crisis prevention and preparation. Obviously, this is a very timely topic considering everything going on in the aftermath of the Japan earthquake and the political unrest in the Middle East. I will share my key takeaways from the meeting in a future post.

As an added bonus… Continue reading

Happy New Year! It was a relatively quiet week for news, if you don’t count the 5,000 dead birds that fell out of the sky in Arkansas and the 2 million dead fish that washed up in Cheasapeake Bay. This has the makings of a Stephen King novel if you ask me.

As you might have noticed, we also refreshed the design of the Logistics Viewpoints

It wouldn’t be December, and we wouldn’t be analysts, without some predictions for the coming year. Here’s what we see in our crystal balls for 2011.

Adrian’s Predictions

I’m going to keep my list of predictions short this year. The fewer predictions I make, the fewer opportunities I have to be wrong.

By now you’ve all heard the news that broke on Friday about package bombs shipped from Yemen involving FedEx and UPS planes (among others) bound for the US. This incident is a sobering reminder that terrorism remains a supply chain risk. It also shows that terrorists apparently love logistics too, but not for the reasons UPS sings about in its new publicity campaign.

Logistics is what powers global commerce… Continue reading