The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The global supply chain industry has by default, a large environmental impact, through its carbon footprint. As part of the CMA CGM Group, CEVA Logistics has a global reach, which means that we can make a global difference. We pledge to adopt better ways of doing business with the aim of becoming an industry standard.

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ToolsGroup

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Global supply chains are particularly vulnerable to the changes triggered by these events, including increased regulation, new tariffs and radical shifts in demand patterns. . We believe this sophisticated “algorithmic supply chain planning” as Gartner calls it, will start to enter mainstream adoption in 2020.

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ToolsGroup

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Global Trade Authority Rob Garrison, CEO and Co-Founder of Mercado Labs, shares insights from over 30 years of supply chain experience working with a variety of Fortune 500 companies. Here, he explains what caused current global supply chain disruptions, and shares the five steps needed to overcome today’s supply chain issues.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 19, 2022

Restructuring Global Value Chains & Tariff Reduction – A Continuous Evolution for Supply Chains. This article was originally written and published for DHL in January 2020 and focused on the trade wars and how to leverage opportunities for tariff reductions. This practice is illegal. Relocating production from China.

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ivalua

APRIL 1, 2020

Healthcare supply chain GPO, Intalere, deploys an end-to-end Source to Contract solution across its purchasing functions. New York, NY March 30, 2020 – Consus , a leading procurement services provider, today announced that Intalere , a healthcare supply chain GPO based in St. Learn more at www.consus-global.com/.

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ivalua

APRIL 1, 2020

Healthcare supply chain GPO, Intalere, deploys an end-to-end Source to Contract solution across its purchasing functions. New York, NY March 30, 2020 – Consus , a leading procurement services provider, today announced that Intalere, a healthcare supply chain GPO based in St. Learn more at www.consus-global.com/.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 20, 2020

Procurement can also have RPA do dynamic searches of websites to source or conduct market research for future buys and tenders. Costs reduction of sourced materials is one way to drive down costs but manually conducting price lookups on multiple options for hundreds of products can prove untenable very quickly. Automation Anywhere.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 13, 2020

Death of Global Supply Chains article and permission to publish here provided by Sam Jenks at kodiakrating.com. Globalization has dominated as a widely practiced business strategy during the past 15–20 years. Many supply chain, sourcing & procurement teams have been asked to row upstream without a paddle during this time of crisis.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 2, 2022

Considering that the world’s population is increasing by one billion people every 11 to 12 years, losing any source of food is big problem. As I noted in a previous article, most conflicts have global consequences.[3] As Husain notes, “One of the core drivers of today’s global food crisis is market concentration.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Supply chain and logistics functions have been one of the most volatile in the global economy of the last four years. The overall volatility was punctuated by shortages that were themselves brought about by the global COVID-19 pandemic. Source: J.P. The third trend is that global trade growth appears to be gradually slowing.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 3, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides commentary relative to July’s global manufacturing PMI indices relative to data indicating declining momentum, and some contraction among specific global regions. Global Wide Production Activity. Morgan Global Manufacturing PMI® report, a composite index produced by J.P. slipping 2.3

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

This is a new and very important platform for the global dialogue in the search for effective solutions to ensure global food security. Exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the ongoing supply chain disruptions and geopolitical events, like the war in Ukraine, the future of global food security is at risk.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Transition to a new administration in Washington has the world wondering what it means for globalization. Globalization has certainly contributed to the complexity and puzzling contradictions to which Bürkner and Bhattacharya refer. Globalization: The good, the bad, and the ugly. For every one of us, these are unsettling times.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2021

GlobalTranz, a logistics service provider, put out a press release on February 23rd where they mentioned that they had achieved 40% growth in revenue, fourth quarter of 2020 compared to the fourth quarter of 2019. Robinson and Echo Global Logistics. As such their closest peers who report their earnings are C.H. That makes C.H.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The consequences of the coronavirus outbreak are being felt throughout the global economy, with stock markets tumbling and companies beginning to to worry about their supply chains. Global supply chains are being affected. The coronavirus outbreak that started in Wuhan, China, is looking more and more like a pandemic. ”[3].

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Media sources are filled with prognostication. However, GEP And S&P Global publish the GEP Global Supply Chain Volatility Index based on data derived from S&P Global’s PMI surveys. The chart below shows that the index decreased to a value below zero earlier this year, for the first time since 2020.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 17, 2022

Covid-19 had its fair share of global supply chain victims , and chlorine is no exception. In fact, pool construction jumped by approximately 20% from 2019 to 2020 – resulting in the need for a whole lot of chlorine tablets. Image source: Cape Analytics. Image Source: Nola. Image Source: USA Today. The result?

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights of the realities of higher number of vessels among global ocean container shipping lines meeting contracting shipping demand levels that are now leading to headcount and schedule reductions. Background Ocean container shipping and logistics are the lifeblood of global supply chain movements.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

After the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit , I took the time to recharge and took a month off from writing. The fall ritual precedes the dropping of the ball on Times Square to ring in 2020. For the global supply chain, it is a constant juggling act. It has been awhile. It is all consuming. The Preamble. Background.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 10, 2023

In this Ferrari Consulting and Research Group Thought Leadership Perspective viewpoint, we highlight added signs of China and global-wide production contraction and the implications of such trending. reflects broader weakness in the entire chain of global manufacturing.” The country’s exports in July declined 14.5 Shipments to the U.S.

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3GTMS

MARCH 17, 2021

Of the many things 2020 taught us, one key takeaway was understanding the global supply chain’s volatility. To make up for the higher costs of in-country sourcing, businesses search for ways […].

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 3, 2023

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights and perspectives on reported July 2023 global and regional production and supply chain PMI indices. The July numbers signal a continued downturn in global manufacturing conditions with output and new order rates reportedly falling at faster rates. Source: S&P Global and Other Sources.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 27, 2020

Mark Sullivan ( @thesullivan ) predicts, “In 2020, technologies will move toward the mainstream and begin impacting daily life. … In 2020, emotion recognition and computer vision will scale and AI will have a breakout moment in manufacturing.” Uzzaman writes, “We expect 2020 to begin the quantum computing era.”

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EazyStock

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Intro to 2020 Supply Chain Management Trends. The new year is upon us, and with the end of 2019 we reach the end of the decade – and the beginning of 2020. Throughout the last decade, the main trends were digitization and globalization. 2020 supply chain management trends will further these shifts. Globalization.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights and added insights on reported September and Q3 2023 global and regional production and supply chain PMI indices. With the closing of the third quarter, the numbers once again signal added contraction in global manufacturing output as product demand levels weaken. reported for August.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Supply Chain Matters provides monthly highlight commentary and perspectives on published January 2023 global manufacturing PMI and supply chain activity indices. Our previous posting in this series of global wide manufacturing PMI highlights was in early January summarizing both December and Q4-2022 reported indices data. increased 0.4

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Supply Chain Matters provides our commentary and perspectives on published monthly global manufacturing PMI and supply chain activity indices. In our summary and perspectives focused on July 2022 reporting , we opined that July data reinforced a trending toward declining global supply chain production momentum. The August 2022 J.P.

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Bristlecone

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

BLOOMBERG RADIO: NIRAV PATEL ON GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN. To build resiliency into supply chains and sourcing operations, businesses must deploy a one-two punch: a strong supply chain network design and smart use of technology. TRIUMPH 2020. The post Bristlecone Flash – November 2020 appeared first on Bristlecone.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Supply Chain Matters provides a further global supply chain assessment in the highlighting and added insights on reported October 2023 global and regional production and supply chain PMI indices. Global Wide Manufacturing Activity Levels Global manufacturing activity as reported by the J.P. down from the 49.2

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2021

If your company’s supply chain survived 2020 and the disruptions of early 2021, it’s safe to say it has passed the supply chain resiliency test. Supply chain disruption has many sources: tariffs and trade disputes, natural disasters, pandemics, economic uncertainty and cybersecurity attacks. Trade disputes and tariffs.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 6, 2023

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights of both December 2022 and full year reported global PMI indices that at the close of 2022 present a far different picture from the start of the year. This posting serves as a side panel to the start of our multi-part unveiling of our individual 2023 predictions for industry and global supply chains.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Fewer organizations achieved their business goals in 2023 than in any recent year, aside from 2020. Sourcing and procurement comes in close second at 88 percent, followed by innovation at 87 percent. With the continued challenges facing supply chains, that is no surprise.

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Unleashed

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Here we break down the key trends affecting the medical device manufacturing sector in 2020 and 2021, focusing on the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. The Covid-19 pandemic has dominated every aspect of the medical device industry in 2020. Covid-19 has dominated the medical device manufacturing industry in 2020.

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LevaData

JANUARY 23, 2020

The world promises to be increasingly volatile and uncertain in 2020. Some key events that supply chain professionals will need to keep an eye on: Brexit: Boris Johnson’s government has a clear mandate to execute Brexit in 2020 – an impossibly short time frame in which to negotiate a comprehensive trade deal.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights and added perspectives on reported November 2022 global manufacturing PMI and supply chain activity indices. There are additional signs of a global glut in overall inventory levels, yet selective component shortages remain for certain industries. Global Wide Production Activity.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 4, 2023

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights of March and Q1- 2023 reported global and regional PMI indices which reinforce a state of stabilization within global supply chain networks. However, we discern some added signs excess inventories and of production sourcing shifts. That stated, the reported 49.6 and January value of 48.8.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 13, 2021

There won’t be a new normal, just new sources of disruption, from weather to government policies to industry conditions. Don’t expect to plan for every disruption; instead, develop a strategy to overcome supply chain disruption, regardless of the source. million in 2020 , with compromised employee accounts the most common cause.

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