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Automakers are scrambling to avert a shock to their global supply chain caused by a shortage of a critical resin used in car parts. An explosion on March 31 in Marl, Germany at Evonik Industries, the German chemical maker, killed two people and took out one of the industry’s biggest producers of cyclododecatriene, or CDT. [...]

SAN FRANCISCO — Amid recent criticism and debate over working conditions along Apple’s supply chain, CEO Tim Cook addressed those concerns immediately while speaking at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference 2012 on Tuesday afternoon. read more

Mon Feb 13, 2012 4:24pm EST Apple has asked the Fair Labor Association, a non-profit labor group, to conduct special audits of the Chinese factories where Apple’s iPads, iPods and other products are manufactured. read more

NEW YORK—Supply chain, cyber security and global expansion risks are top of mind for risk managers at large companies this year. To get cutting-edge insights into how to manage these dynamic and potentially catastrophic exposures, risk managers from the largest companies in the world will gather at the Waldorf=Astoria in New York next month for [...]

Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) — Boeing Co. is scrutinizing its supply chain’s capacity and quality more closely than ever as the planemaker enters “uncharted waters” by taking jet output to record levels, an executive said. read more

A World Economic Forum report released today calls for new models to address supply chain and transport risks. The report, New Models for Addressing Supply Chain and Transport Risks, produced in collaboration with Accenture, highlights the urgent need to review risk management practices to keep pace with rapidly changing contingencies facing the supply chain, transport, aviation [...]

HAMBURG, Germany -(MarketWatch)- Avoiding hiccups in the supply chain is the main challenge facing Airbus as it moves from the development of its new wide-bodied A350 to the industrial phase of the project, Airbus’s second-in-command said Tuesday. read more

CHICAGO, IL, Nov 07, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — The headlines of the past year have highlighted one supply chain disruption after another, but a majority of companies are not systematically managing risk to avoid disruptions to increasingly global supply chains, according to global management consulting firm A.T. Kearney’s latest Assessment of Excellence in Procurement [...]

Western Digital Corp. said flooding in Thailand is having a “significant impact” on the hard-disk drive maker’s operations and its ability to meet customer demand in the current quarter, adding supply concerns to an industry already hurt by weak consumer spending on PCs. Read more:

Toyota, the world’s biggest carmaker, has said it will close its UK plant at Burnaston in Derbyshire for two days each week in May to manage the current shortage of car parts. read more