Category: Supply Chain

Royal Philips saw its quarterly sales fall about $400 million (USD) below expectations as the imaging giant grappled with global supply chain issues, leaders said Wednesday. All told, the Amsterdam-based company recorded $5.6 billion in sales for the three months ending Dec. 31. Philips sustained a 10% sales decline when compared to the same period…

MENLO PARK (CBS SF) — Business owner Brian Flegel has to caution his customers that they’ll have to wait six months, eight months or even longer to get deliveries of the furniture they order today. “It’s not just getting here from overseas, it’s then getting a berth to dock,” said Stu Soffer, who is shopping…

Agriculture target fixing has been more of a perfunctory function — driven by political preferences rather than provincial performance and capacity – for the federation, especially after the Eighteenth Amendment that devolved the sector to provinces. The federation now decides goals and tells the provinces to achieve them, or get the flak. Every March and…