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I recently had a conversation with a C-suite leader of a company that has 6,000-plus employees who were implementing a significant organizational structure change to build in more accountability and ownership across 50 interconnected departments.

Meeting a customer’s needs, on time, is the cornerstone of any distribution business. But the challenges of the past two years have made that bedrock task harder to perform for businesses of all types in the U.S. supply chain.

The constricted job market of the past two years may ease a little next year, though challenges will remain for hiring managers in all industries.

About Equipment Leasing...“If it appreciates, buy it. If it depreciates or becomes obsolete, lease it.”

For the first time in decades, the United States is in the midst of a serious inflationary environment. For operators in the manufacturing sector, the consumer is just now catching up to the business world.

Nearly everyone has been targeted by a phishing email at some point in time. Defined as the act of using messages, links and appeals to trick or defraud a computer user by posing as a legitimate company

Organizational leaders aren’t infallible. They make mistakes. They miss things. They have blind spots. Sometimes blind spots are easy to reveal, while others persist despite evidence to the contrary. Why is this the case?

Steel prices and lead times are back to their pre-Ukraine War levels following the biggest price spike the industry has seen in at least the last 15 years – and maybe ever.

The headline number, a negative GDP reading in the first quarter, is obviously worrisome. However, the overall economic picture isn’t as problematic for the steel industry, said Ping Liang, lead analyst for strategic marketing for ArcelorMittal at the AWMI Chicago Chapter meeting in May.

It’s coming up on six months since the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act was signed into law by President Joe Biden. Yet how it’s going to play out remains something of a mystery to many.