Our Center recently updated the 0ur 2018 Global Trade and Supply Chain Management Sector Economic Analysis with fresh data and an initial look at the effects of Covid-19 on the industry. Check it out CAI.Highline College.Global Supply Chain 2020_Final
In supply chains, everything is connected. My nearly 85-year-old Mom, cat food, $1 trillion and Christmas. They’re all connected too. Wait, I can explain. Early in the pandemic, it was difficult to convince my Mom to buy her groceries online rather than going to the store and interacting with people who could infect her with [...]
Trade drives job growth and wealth generation in Washington. Our state is among the most trade dependent states in the U.S. Washington’s exports include not just airplanes, but also medical devices, agriculture commodities, machined parts, and processed foods, among many other Washington-made products. Added to exports, Washington is home to a comprehensive system of port [...]
The agriculture supply chain is a very interesting and challenging world in and of itself. The products being moved are constantly changing due to crop growing seasons and consumer demand. There is also the ups and downs of the markets that purchase these products. As a wheat farmer in central Washington for 20 years, I [...]
In August and September 2019, 16 students from four colleges inaugurated the first annual Follow the Supply Chain Study Abroad program. The students followed products through the supply chain from Washington state to Vietnam and vice versa. One of the products they followed were Brooks running shoes, designed at their headquarters in Seattle and assembled [...]
In normal days, the supply chain is content to hum along, humbly minding its own business, disregarded by a world wholly reliant on it. But last week a cheery couple walked the aisle of a grocery store, stocking up on this and that, never thinking of the complicated supply chain that brought these goods into [...]
The COVID-19 crisis has significantly affected the air travel industry, and airports including Seattle-Tacoma International (SEA) are seeing reductions in the number of passengers flying by 90% or more. This also means fewer airplanes are flying, which has an impact on air cargo logistics and trade. You may not know that air cargo is regularly [...]
In the Director’s Report, we noted that our new Jobs Dashboard we will make it easy to find training to get a good job in the global trade and supply chain sector. One of the great training programs for this sector is the Purchasing and Supply Chain Management Certificate (PSCM) provided by Shoreline Community College [...]
What if we could make it easier for Washingtonians to learn about, find training in, and ultimately gain work in an industry with more than 100,000 family wage jobs? What industry am I talking about? The global trade and supply chain sector which regular readers of The Chain know there are 152,000 global trade and [...]
On November 15 2019, the Center of Excellence, the University of Washington’s Global Business Center and Center for Global Studies will be hosting a workshop on internationalizing business curriculum organized by Michigan State University. This workshop is open to all business faculty across the northwest who are interested in learning more about globalization and community [...]