Europe’s fashionwear manufacturers and importers may face stricter environmental rules under a push to clean up textiles production. In a fresh sign of the European Union’s ambitions to expand its green regulatory footprint around the globe, the bloc’s environment chief vowed to zero in on the apparel industry to ensure that it avoids using harmful
The global commodity-shipping industry faces an extremely challenging quarter as the impact of the coronavirus outbreak in China adds to other headwinds including seasonally low demand and the impact of recent fuel-rule changes, according to IHS Markit. The spreading health emergency in Asia’s top economy, the world’s largest importer of iron ore, has sent shock
Variability, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity (VUCA) – these are the conditions of the “new normal” set of operating conditions faced by most firms today in their value chains. When one layers on top of this the challenges of navigating one’s way through the “new oil” of digital supply chains, it adds up to a whole