Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 30, 2023

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group, via its affiliated Supply Chain Matters blog calls reader attention to two recently published research papers that address evidence of ongoing shifts in global supply component and end production sourcing. The abstract notes that the research paper “ documents that shifts in the pattern of U.S.

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The Logistics of Logistics

APRIL 14, 2023

In 2012, after managing advertising campaigns for top-tier brands for many years, Paul and his wife co-founded Bulu Box, a health and wellness subscription box service that provides product samples to customers. As a former D1 college football player, Paul is a driven and competitive individual with a passion for leading his team to success.

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Supply Chain Network

JANUARY 26, 2012

But 2012 is an extra-special year; it carries heavy historical baggage chock full of dire predictions. Nostradamus painted a bleak picture of massive destruction and mayhem brought about by a comet in 2012. In the tradition of David Letterman, (in no particular order) let’s hit the Top 10 Supply Chain Predictions for 2012.

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SCM Research

MAY 22, 2012

The study is titled The 2012 global supply chain agenda. The authors find that the following topics are the key business drivers for 2012: (1) market/demand volatility, (2) economic downturn, (3) meeting (changing) customer, (4) develop emerging markets, and (5) increased material/service costs.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 2, 2023

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights of February 2023 reported global and regional PMI indices which appear to indicate some stabilization within global supply chain networks. Global Manufacturing Activity Levels Global manufacturing activity as reported by the J.P. The reported 50 value for February was up 0.9

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

’ SCM as defined by Keith Oliver could be construed as Macro Supply Chain Management (Macro-SCM), since it involves the global network processes from the initial raw materials to the ultimate consumption of the finished product linking across supplier-user companies. Below is her top ten list of supply chain worries in 2012: 1.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 5, 2015

These consumer products global leaders paved the road for supply chain excellence by defining new supply chain practices. Over the last decade, each company took a different path to power global growth. Unilever, for the first time, announced a global supply chain director. This is a global market. Procter & Gamble.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 24, 2022

Rathna Sharad , founder and CEO of FlavorCloud , has 20+ years of experience working in global supply chain and international trade logistics as well as 10+ years of e-commerce enablement experience which has positioned her perfectly to create an “anywhere to anywhere” logistics solution that enables any brand to go global.

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SCM Research

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

The Bernard J. LaLonde Best Paper Award (best paper published in the Journal of Business Logistics) goes to Top-down versus bottom-up demand forecasts: The value of shared point-of-sale data in the retail supply chain by Williams and Waller.

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EcoVadis

OCTOBER 21, 2011

UN Global 2012 defines supply chain sustainability as: “the management of environmental, social and economic impacts, and the encouragement of good governance practices, throughout the lifecycles of goods and services. This definition was uncovered recently by one of our expert analysts.

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SCM Research

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

First, the Journal of Operations Management has awarded the Jack Meredith Best Paper Award to Speier and her co-authors for their article Global supply chain design considerations: Mitigating product safety and security risks. Global supply chain design considerations: Mitigating product safety and security risks. part 1/2 ).

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The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 15, 2022

He has leadership and P&L responsibility for XPO’s asset-light North American truck brokerage business and complementary brokered services of managed transportation, last mile logistics and global freight forwarding. XPO is a global leader in less-than-truckload transportation, and one of the largest LTL providers in North America.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 9, 2021

Average performance in 2016-2019 across twenty-seven manufacturing sectors on inventory turns, Return on Invested Capital and operating margin was worse than in 2012-2015. Over the last decade, in the building of global supply chains, organizations grew more political with gaming on metrics. Sadly, most of it is the wrong inventory.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 5, 2022

But Molex, a global electronics and connectivity solutions company, has been investing in their intelligent digital supply chain strategy to improve their supply chain agility and customer experience. The Molex global supply chain is complex. By 2012 they had implemented this multi-enterprise supply chain network (MSCN) solution.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

by Dr Shereen Nassar – Global Director of Logistics Studies and Supply Chain Management Programmes Heriot-Watt University Dubai. The pandemic uncovered the dangers that a global crisis can pose to businesses when supply chains are not equipped to operate during crisis. About the Author.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 1, 2022

Over the last decade, the organization grew larger and more political in the journey from regional to global supply chain structures. To understand this point, I contrast the results of the Gartner Top 25 Award Winners published in 2022 (last week) against their peer group from 2012 to 2021. Neither should be the goal of planning.

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MAY 7, 2020

But few remember the stress the 2011 event placed on global supply chains. . The interdependence of the global supply chain guaranteed the effects would extend far beyond the Japanese economy. . Thankfully, by 2011 the global supply chain had an arsenal of weapons to help combat the economic aftershocks of the disaster.

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The Network Effect

AUGUST 26, 2014

Within a decade, the number of FDA warning letters sent to medical device manufacturers has increased threefold, from 61 letters in 2002 to 181 in 2012 (EC A 2012). China published new GMP guidelines in 2012 and called on pharmaceutical companies to pursue GMP certification by the end of 2013.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 15, 2020

The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), first reported in Saudi Arabia in 2012, didn’t make headline news. Prior articles that might help: The Global Supply Chain Needs a Shot in the Arm. As an United States resident, I was blissfully unaware of this virus and worried about catching my flight to Singapore.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

As shown in Table 2, for the period of 2012-2021, Mondelez is 27 th out of 35 companies in the food sector in driving improvement. Mondelez Comparison to Nestle and Industry Average for the Period of 2012-2021. This week, we kick off the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit. The net result?

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SCM Research

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Two recent disasters in the garment industry, the Tazreen Fashions fire (2012) and the Rana Plaza building collapse (2013), have caused outrage over the lack of social responsibility across global supply chains. The Socially Responsible Supply Chain: An Imperative for Global Corporations. Wieland, A., & Handfield, R.B.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The truth is there is a global supply chain supporting the poinsettia trade. According to journalist Zachary Crockett , “It’s one of the most popular plants in the world, with annual sales of ~90m units and a global retail impact of nearly $1B.”[2] ” Suzanna de Baca , a Latina and CEO of Business Publications Corp.,

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 16, 2013

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Material Handling & Logistics

AUGUST 16, 2017

But to really understand the scope of the trade route is to recognize the economic impact it will have on the global economy. This route will encompass one-third of the world’s GDP, 65% of the world’s population and 25% of all the goods and services of the global economy. And Honeywell has been involved in some of these. While the U.S.

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Supply Chains Rock

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

Sunday, February 05, 2012. JCREW Goes Global, with Shipping. Global Trade Management. Without supply chains consumers would be stuck using products that they had to make or grow with their own two hands. Still not excited, well visit often and eventually you will be. Subscribe To. Upcoming Events. SCM Blogroll. LogJobs.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 12, 2022

This is post is 502 in a series started in 2012. I also print a small print run and sign them at the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit. (I We have a week left to get enough respondents to unveil the new results at the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit. Access the prior journals on the Supply Chain Insights Global website.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 24, 2022

At the conference, I was fortunate to see a presentation from Brent Wilson, Senior Vice President of Global Supply Chain at Qualcomm. The solution was implemented in 2012 in order to deliver a comprehensive sales and operations planning (S&OP) solution that was able to move into execution with high integrity.

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SCM Research

OCTOBER 20, 2013

This year’s CSCMP Annual Global Conference took place in Denver, Colorado. It has become a good tradition that some of the leading journals of our field announce their best paper awards during the CSCMP’s Supply Chain Management Educators’ Conference, the academic part of the CSCMP Conference ( see my previous post from Atlanta last year ).

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EcoVadis

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Companies want to use an established global standard (i.e. Increasing legislation, such as the Dodd-Frank Act and the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act in 2012 , particularly in the US are compelling companies to take a more robust approach to monitoring third party activities.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 25, 2017

Developed by the World Customs Organization (WCO), the Harmonized System (HS) serves as a universal economic language for goods—an indispensable tool for global trade. More extensive than the 2012 updates, the 2017 amendments represent a significant overhaul of the foundation of global trade. What challenges do businesses face?

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Global Trade Management

JANUARY 29, 2014

Global Cargo Monitoring / Cargo Tracking. International trade is the engine of global prosperity today. The size of global trade has nearly doubled since 1990. Cubic Global Tracking Solutions and arviem AG Form Strategic Partnership for Global Cargo Monitoring Services. Subscribe To. Wednesday, 29 January 2014.

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Supply Chain Movement

JULY 10, 2014

Since 2012 Supply Chain Movement, in collaboration with partners, creates mind maps with practical Thoughts, Tools, Tips and Ticks. Mind Map for Global Trade Management. The mind maps are useful to create an overview when the subject you are dealing with is complex. Usually a mind map has a free format.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 2, 2022

Jefferies also led the successful development, negotiation and reauthorization of major infrastructure legislation and managed the successful conference of Committee legislation relating to the 2012 surface transportation reauthorization law, MAP 21. America’s freight railroads are almost entirely privately owned and operated.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. This commentary is an interim follow-up to this authors previous Infosys Limited guest commentary: Headline for the 2012 Holiday Buying Season- Overcoming the Challenges of Fulfillment Complexity. December 2012.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Academics from the San Diego State University note, “With the rise of the Internet and the new era of globalization, some have argued that the world is flat — geography is dead.”[2] Nevertheless, the globalization of business placed greater emphasis on lead times, transportation costs, and so forth.

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Supply Chain Network

MARCH 2, 2012

The acceleration in online connectivity and speed, combined with the explosion of information and unprecedented access to it, is reshaping globally interconnected commerce systems.” Smarter Commerce helps organizations that are struggling to meet the demands of a rapidly changing market. Link to the Press Release.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

DECEMBER 31, 2012

The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. My guest commentary comes at the end of December as the early indicators from the 2012 surge holiday buying period already point to yet another set of significant learning for global retailers.

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