The success of your production activities depends on internal and external supply chain activities. These factors link your internal and external supplies and distribution processes to ensure a smooth ...

Over the past 70 years of semiconductor industry development, there has been a significant shift towards deconstructing the industrial value chain into individual value chain nodes. Save my User ID ...

Discover when outsourcing beats vertical integration in reducing costs and boosting efficiency. Learn which strategy aligns ...

Severe supply chain disruptions have become a common occurrence over the past few years, as pandemic-related delays have wrought havoc on fulfillment. Almost concurrently, as manufacturers scaled-down ...

The meaningful factors driving vertical integration are largely market-based, not rooted in regulation, one professor told a Senate subcommittee. There are good reasons for the spree of vertical ...

Vertical integration is one of those concepts taught about in business school, an essential step in the development of industrial capitalism, along with the assembly line and interlocking parts. Its ...

Explore the advantages and challenges of backward integration for businesses, and learn how this strategy can enhance supply chain control and efficiency.

Finish the year with a clearer view of the freight landscape in the December Edge Report from C.H. Robinson. Supply chain and logistics management in the emerging age of autonomous trucking The recent ...

Before COVID-19 turned the aerospace and defense (A&D) manufacturing and aftermarket worlds on their heads, a key issue clouding suppliers’ outlooks was how much encroachment to expect from Airbus, ...

This paper examines EU global value-chain (GVC) integration and analyzes its drivers using machine learning models, with case ...