By Tom Ozimek U.S. manufacturing activity contracted in March for the fourth straight month, dropping to its lowest level in nearly three years amid a sharp pullback in demand. The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) said in an April 3 report that its Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) fell to 46.3 last month compared to 47.7 percent in […]
Tag: Supply Chain Management
In commerce, supply chain management, the management of the flow of goods and services, between businesses and locations, and includes the movement and storage of raw materials, of work-in-process inventory, and of finished goods as well as end to end order fulfillment from point of origin to point of consumption.