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The Digital Supply Chain Needs to Include Trade Compliance Systems!

Logistics Viewpoints

And yet Jerry Peck, the vice president of product strategy for global trade and transportation execution at QAD, made the point that when global companies think about digital supply chains, global trade compliance is often not part of their thinking. The advantage to a global supply chain can be lower landed costs.

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The Global Trade Compliance Market is Crazy!

Logistics Viewpoints

Many multinationals have engineered their global supply chains to minimize taxation by creating subsidiaries in low taxation nations like Switzerland, Ireland, and Singapore. This action was brought by the Office of Foreign Assets Control which is an enforcement agency of the U.S. Treasury Department.

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Should My Warehouse Be Automated?

Logistics Business Magazine

A couple of years ago this question might have been a little easier to answer when looking at today’s challenges and what the repercussions of a global health crisis has done to impact the supply chain around the world. Trends of the global warehouse automation market.