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By Tom Polansek and Promit Mukherjee CHICAGO/OTTAWA (Reuters) – A looming stoppage of freight railway operations across Canada would disrupt North America’s agricultural supply chain, snarling shipments of everything from wheat to fertilizer and meat. Unless last-minute labor agreements are reached, both Canadian National Railway (TSX:) and Canadian Pacific (NYSE:)…
In early 2022, Cuban founded Cost Plus Drugs, a discount pill-mailing service that promised to take some of the bloat out of America’s pharmaceutical system by delivering drugs to consumers at lower, more transparent price points.Here’s how it works: Cost Plus Drugs, as the name implies, gets drugs directly from…
Shein plans to sell its supply-chain technology to other retailers.The strategy could help grow its revenue, but experts say the brand’s reputation may be an obstacle.This article is part of “The Future of Supply-Chain Management,” a series on companies’ manufacturing and distribution strategies. Shein is looking to sell the supply-chain…
By Ana Mano and Roberto SamoraSAO PAULO (Reuters) -Torrential rainfall in Brazil’s second-largest soybean and sixth-largest corn state is disrupting the final stages of the harvest, according to a meteorologist’s bulletin on Thursday, a grains broker and an analyst.Historically, soy farmers in Rio Grande do Sul would have harvested 83%…
By Yelin Mo and Brenda Goh BEIJING (Reuters) -Taiwan’s biggest earthquake since 1999 is likely to cause some disruption across Asia’s semiconductor supply chain, analysts said, after chipmakers from TSMC to UMC halted some operations to inspect facilities and relocate employees. The powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck Taiwan’s eastern coast near…
