Focus on Supplier Relationship Management with Tier Ones can Cause Issues, Choi and Linton Say; Downstream Visibility Helped LG Electronics See Demand was Accelerating in 2009 before Many Competitors Did

Make it Hard and Throw Some Curves, Long Time Industry Consultant John Pearce Says; Make Sure You Do Not Allow Vendors to Get You Off Script

Port of Savannah Deepening Project Update; Ocean Rate Hikes Seem to be Sticking for Now on Asia to North America Routes; Panama Canal Proposes 7-8% Increases in Tolls for 2012 and 2013, Plus New Segment Definitions

Mid-Sized Manufacturers are Somewhat Less Likely to Consider Reshoring; Strong Majority of Respondents Agree Costs from China Are Over Initial Estimates

Walmart Growth in Mexico was Spurred by Bribes, Article Alleges, and Walmart Ignored Evidence and Eventually Looked the Other Way in 2006

Amazing Sustainability Reportfrom Walmart for 2012; A Rare Look Inside an Apple-Foxconn Factory; A Well-Known Supply Chain Executive Makes Major Move

From RFID to the Cloud, Technology Support for Turbo Supply Chain Visibility is Here; Now it is a Matter of Resolve to get There

Foxconn Opens Door to NPR; Conditions Much Better than Most Reports Would Have You Believe, but Still Some Issues; Thousands of Young Workers Head Back Home

Q1 2012 Supply Chain Review; We List the Top Stories, from Supplier Labor Challenges at Apple to the Surprising Acquisition by Amazon.com

World Is Not Running Out of Oil, Chuck Taylor Says, It is Just Running Out of the Cheap Kind