At a gathering of more than 1,000 leading suppliers, Chinese officials and non-governmental organizations in Beijing, Wal-Mart has outlined a series of goals to build a more environmentally and socially responsible global supply chain.

IBM's first supply chain innovation center has opened in Beijing.

By Bill Valentino
Supply chain management is a key business process focused on identifying and streamlining the ways to reduce costs, grow revenues and manage assets. It is a business process that begins with needs and ends with monitoring and evaluating the suppliers and relationships who meet those needs. It is a two-way network, a system [...]

Nine buyers with combined annual sales of US$85 billion met with 71 promotional gift suppliers from Greater China at Global Sources' Private Sourcing Event in Shenzhen last week.