Understanding the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act

The California Transparency in Supply Chains Act went into full effect this year. While companies have taken preliminary steps to comply, the more complicated portions of the act — such as auditing and verifying suppliers and training employees — will take long-term commitment and diligence.

In fact, it’s very possible that companies outside of California are just now starting to experience the reach of the act. Additionally, a similar bill has been filed in Congress, which, if passed, would mean many more manufacturers and retailers will need to examine their business-to-business (B2B) supply chain for potential human rights abuses.

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Integration Technology Drives Innovation for Multi-Channel Retail

I can sum up in one word what will separate financially successful retailers from the losers in a few short years. That one word: Integration.

For years now, retailers have struggled with how to balance their online business with on-site stores. And it’s safe to say that, for the most part, retailers have failed.

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Supercharging Your Supply Chain: Streamlining Procurement (1st blog in the series)

Today, B2B.com is launching a new series of blogs by supply-chain experts on super charging 5 key areas of supply chain, from procurement to the retail. Over the next five weeks, our experts will release a new blog every Friday covering these areas :

• Streamlining procurement
• Bringing order to order management
• Ensuring your logistics move smoothly
• Taking the pain out of returns
• The end game; Retail

Today, we start our series with a look at streamlining procurement.

Why should you Streamline Procurement?

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B2B.com Readers Prefer EDI Standards for Partner Exchanges

Recently, we polled the B2B community about how you exchange information with your business-to-business partners.

It’s probably not surprising that the most responses said they use EDI, although it wasn’t as close as we’d like. It turns out nearly 36 percent use EDI, but Excel spreadsheets ranked second, with 28 percent saying that’s how they share data with B2B partners.

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