Yanan Wang

Associated Press

Your Complete Guide to Inventory Forecasting

Your Complete Guide to Inventory Forecasting

An accurate inventory forecast is invaluable, especially when supply chains and consumer demand are changing rapidly. Effective inventory forecasting can mean the difference between profitability and piles of unsold goods that eat up your available cash.

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a joint video conference with Chinese President Xi Jinping during inaugurating the Power of Siberia pipeline in the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, Monday, Dec. 2, 2019. China and Russia launched Monday a more than 6,000 kilometer-long gas pipeline in one realization of the countries' long-planned energy partnerships.

China, Russia Launch Massive Gas Pipeline

The pipeline is more than 3,750 miles long.

Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei speaks at a roundtable at the telecom giant's headquarters in Shenzhen in southern China.

Huawei Says Sanctions Will Cost Billions

Huawei's founder said that the Chinese telecom giant's revenue will be $30 billion less than forecast, which will also impact U.S. suppliers.

In this Nov. 5, 2018, file photo, a man dressed as a pilot walks past the FedEx booth during the China International Import Expo in Shanghai. China's state media said Saturday, June 1, 2019, that the country is investigating FedEx after it diverted packages sent by Chinese tech giant Huawei.

China Investigates FedEx

FedEx said packages containing Huawei paperwork were misrouted accidentally.

In this Monday, May 20, 2019, photo, shoppers visit a Huawei store in Beijing. Chinese tech giant Huawei has filed a motion in U.S. court challenging the constitutionality of a law that limits its sales of telecom equipment.

China Dangles Rare Earths Threat

Chinese state media warned that Beijing could cut America off from exotic minerals that are widely used in electric cars and mobile phones.

In this Monday, May 20, 2019, photo, a man uses his smartphone outside a Huawei store in Beijing. Chinese tech giant Huawei has filed a motion in U.S. court challenging the constitutionality of a law that limits its sales of telecom equipment.

Huawei Says Security Law Unconstitutional

The Trump administration says the company could use its equipment to spy on behalf of the Chinese government and is thus a threat to international cybersecurity.

In this Nov. 5, 2017, file photo, residents pass by a security checkpoint and surveillance cameras mounted on a street in Kashgar in western China's Xinjiang region. The Chinese database Victor Gevers found online was not just a collection of old personal details. The discovery by Gevers, a Dutch cybersecurity researcher who revealed it on Twitter last week, has given a rare glimpse into China’s extensive surveillance of Xinjiang, a remote region home to an ethnic minority population that is largely Muslim. The area has been blanketed with police checkpoints and security cameras that apparently are doing more than just recording what happens. The database Gevers found appears to have been recording people’s movements tracked by facial recognition technology, he said, logging more than 6.7 million coordinates in a span of 24 hours.

Chinese Database Shows Depth of Surveillance

It was a compilation of real-time data on more than 2.5 million people, their movements tracked by facial recognition software.

In this file image from undated video footage run by China's CCTV via AP Video, Muslim trainees work in a garment factory at the Hotan Vocational Education and Training Center in Hotan, Xinjiang, northwest China. A U.S. company that stocks college bookstores with t-shirts and other team apparel cut ties Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019, with a Chinese company that drew workers from an internment camp holding targeted members of ethnic minority groups.

U.S. Apparel Co. Cuts Off Forced Labor

Universities stocking Badger clothing began pulling items from their shelves and websites after the report appeared in December.

In this Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018, photo, two layers of barbed wire fencing ring the 'Hotan City apparel employment training base' where Hetian Taida has a factory in Hotan in western China's Xinjiang region. This is one of a growing number of internment camps in the Xinjiang region, where by some estimates 1 million Muslims are detained, forced to give up their language and their religion and subject to political indoctrination. Now, the Chinese government is also forcing some detainees to work in manufacturing and food industries. Some of them are within the internment camps; others are privately owned, state-subsidized factories where detainees are sent once they are released.

U.S. Reviews Claim of Slave-Produced Imports

The AP tracked shipments from a factory in an interment camp in China's far western Xinjiang region to Badger Sportswear in North Carolina.

In this file image from undated video footage run by China's CCTV via AP Video, Muslim trainees work in a garment factory at the Hotan Vocational Education and Training Center in Hotan, Xinjiang, northwest China. China's state broadcaster CCTV aired the report Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018, on the so-called vocational education and training center, with Muslim trainees telling the camera how they have been saved from dangerous and poor lives and how grateful they are to the authorities.

Sportswear Made in Internment Camp

It can be difficult to stop products made with forced labor from getting into the global supply chain, even though such imports are illegal in the U.S.