SCM Research

JANUARY 2, 2017

We certainly all agree: Trust between supply chain partners has a lot of benefits. However, in their forthcoming study of trust in the buyer–supplier relationship , Villena and her co-authors argue that there is a “duality of trust”: Trust has benefits but it can also become dysfunctional if it is excessive. The results of their study show “that trust follows an inverted-U shape with performance”, i.e., at a certain point the negative effects offset the benefits of trust and performance declines

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Supply Chain Digest

JANUARY 2, 2017

PepsiCo Moves into the Top Spot, Just Ahead of General Mills, as ConAgra is New to Top 10, Kimberly Clark Out

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 2, 2017

The late John Dos Passos (1896–1970), U.S. novelist, poet, playwright, painter, reported, “In certain savage tribes in New Guinea, they … Continued. The post Happy New Year 2017 appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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Supply Chain Digest

JANUARY 2, 2017

Skeptic Hope for Piece of the 2.

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DAT Solutions

JANUARY 2, 2017

The freight recession is over. An 18-month malaise was triggered by the worldwide collapse of oil prices at the end of 2014. Energy exploration and fracking petered out, and the accompanying freight dried up. Fuel prices dropped, and carrier revenues fell due to the declining fuel surcharges. To add insult to injury, line haul rates fell, too, in a cycle of year-over-year declines that lasted through the middle of 2016.

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