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Coronavirus Highlights Fragility of Global Supply Networks

Jaggaer

Procurement professionals around the world are sitting up and paying attention, especially in sectors with globally integrated supply chains. Since the outbreak of SARS in 2003, the last major epidemic to hit China, the country has become even more important as a source of key components and materials as well as finished consumer goods.

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Jason Miller Blog 2: Will Intel’s investments make a dent in our dependence on foreign semiconductors?

NC State SCRC

To answer this question, my colleague Jason Miller at Michigan State University did a few calculations, and used bit of guess-work and a few assumptions, which gives us a pretty good idea. From the 2017 Economic Census Jason pulled data on industry concentration in semiconductor manufacturing. Putting this all together….that

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Guest blog: With the Truck Driver Shortage, How Many More Drivers will be Enough?

CH Robinson Transportfolio

To help offer perspective, we took this question to Jason Miller, associate professor of supply chain management at Michigan State University. Our relationships with research firms and universities like Michigan State, combined with C.H. The answer is not simple and involves research and analysis across a number of factors.

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Ten Supply Chain Predictions for 2023

NC State SCRC

My colleague Jason Miller from Michigan State is an expert at navigating the many different publicly available government database, and interpreting the tea leaves. Data below from three series from the BLS PPI program obtained from FRED (with call codes after the labels), all set such that 100 = January 2019.

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The Christmas Tree Supply Chain!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Pickyourownchristmastree.org states that in 2019 over 26 million new trees were purchased in the U.S., the majority of trees are grown in Oregon, followed by North Carolina, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Washington. The vast majority of artificial trees, 80%, are manufactured in China for export worldwide.

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Ivalua Sees Accelerating Momentum with Another Record Year in 2018

ivalua

12, 2019 — Ivalua, a leading provider of global Spend Management Cloud solutions, today announced another record year. Over the last 12 months, Ivalua has delivered a significant number of rapid procurement transformations with the help of its expanding ecosystem of advisory and implementation partners. REDWOOD CITY, Feb.

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Hurricane Season Brings New Risks to Pandemic-stressed Supply Chain Chains

Enterra Insights

The third named storm, Cristobal, soaked areas from southeast Louisiana to north Florida and south Georgia, then became only the fourth tropical storm to track into Wisconsin or its adjacent Lake Michigan waters in more than 100 years of records. The second named storm, Bertha, made landfall an hour after it formed.