Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides our latest update regarding the Red Sea Transport disruption impacting transport movements to and from European and Asian ports. Further, Japan based shipping line Mitsui OSK Lines indicated a belief that this disruption could extend thru the balance of 2024. percent to 4.5

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This shows hope that one day, we won’t need an award like this because men and women in the supply chain will be equal,” says Marina Mayer, Editor-in-Chief of Food Logistics and Supply & Demand Chain Executive. At ToolsGroup, that mission is to make supply chain a force for good.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 6, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights and added perspectives to U.S. retailer Target’s recent reporting of Q4 and Fiscal 2024 financial and operational performance. They should be indications of what retailers and their supply network fulfillment teams can anticipate in 2024. percent decline was offset by a 5.1

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 30, 2024

Supply Chain Matters highlights added reports of headcount reductions occurring across various supply chain industry services sectors. UPS guidance for 2024 revenues of between $92 billion and $94.5 The company’s share price declined over 8 percent on the news of financial performance and 2024 guidance.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 2, 2024

This blog was co-written by Terence Leung and Jen McQuiston Our customers depend on Blue Yonder Transportation Management to achieve customer-centricity and operational resiliency across the globe. This fact drives us to innovate when it comes to our Supply Chain Execution solutions.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 19, 2024

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides our readers with a further update on the ongoing Red Sea shipping disruption including added context and implications. Background Just before the Christmas 2023 holiday, Supply Chain Matters alerted our readers to rather troubling signs for another global-wide shipping disruption.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Will the supply chain ever catch a break? With every link of the supply chain impacting businesses both large and small, keeping up with the globally disrupted supply chain evolution is a recipe for whiplash. Raw Material Shortages Are Affecting a Challenged Supply Chain.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 25, 2024

Courtney Muller and Joe Lynch discuss reflections on Manifest , the premiere conference that unites the entire eco-system of Fortune 500 global supply chain executives, logistics service providers, innovators and investors at the forefront of logistics tech and supply chain.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 4, 2024

Supply Chain Matters features its latest full edition of This Week in Supply Chain Tech , a compilation of funding, partnership and other noteworthy announcements related to supply chain technology support. Our last full edition was published on February 14. billion in Generative AI start-up Anthropic.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 3, 2024

In this special Supply Chain Matters supply network risk advisory, we highlight the initial implications of today’s major earthquake that has impacted the island of Taiwan. Need for Assessments Since Supply Chain Matters inception, we have highlighted previous occurrences of major earthquakes occurring in Taiwan, including a 6.4

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 18, 2024

Global retailer Walmart aims to provide supply chain focused technology to help other retailers and businesses to broaden their customer fulfilment and logistics support capabilities. Amazon is a retailer that Supply Chain Matters has also highlighted. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 28, 2024

Supply Chain Matters highlights a published report that further indicates that Amazon’s decentralized retail fulfillment realignment is ongoing and raising retail industry competitive stakes. However, the savings on overall transportation costs coupled with the gains in added customer fulfillment levels have been noteworthy.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In this special edition of Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Technology , we highlight an announcement of added capabilities being planned for the Amazon AWS Supply Chain B2B Cloud. The product announcement was made in conjunction with the Amazon AWS re:Invent conference held in 2022.

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Cathy Roberson

MAY 19, 2021

Busy times for all of us and in particular supply chain managers who are dealing with capacity constraints, delays, the rise of e-commerce, forecasting in this crazy environment, identifying and analyzing data, and putting the data to use in strategies. TMS has come a long way since its early days.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 19, 2022

Walmart’s supply chain woes. Uber Eats teams up with Office Depot for on-demand school supplies. Walmart is facing some serious supply chain issues. Clearing the stale inventory has helped the world’s largest retailer relieve pressure on their stores and through their supply chain.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights for its readership a published report that once again points to the strategic threat that Amazon is developing to yet again disrupt the retail and wholesale industry. We collectively have to admire what this platform provider has accomplished across various dimensions.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Supply Chain Matters highlights for readers the implications of Amazon’s ongoing global and domestic operational and last mile fulfillment network. Amazon ’s aim in 2024 is to expand same-day delivery services globally to service more geographies with the goal of continuing to reduce the cost-to-serve metric.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights yet another senior leadership transition involving a logistics focused B2B Cloud platform provider. Accordingly, the E2open board has retained an executive search firm to initiate an external search process to identify a permanent new CEO. percent year-over-year basis.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Supply Chain Matters once again highlights some positive news for global supply chain management teams, specifically transportation and logistics related teams. Our research arm recently pointed out this transportation trending in a mid-year assessment commentary. Added Perspectives. Bob Ferrari.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights and added perspectives to retailer Walmart’s report of Q4 and Fiscal 2024 financial and operational performance. Full Fiscal Year Performance headlines for the full 2024 fiscal year were highlighted with: Consolidated revenue growth of 5.5 percent to $173.4 percent to $648.1

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 29, 2024

This special edition of Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech highlights today’s announcement from Blue Yonder relative to the acquisition of One Network Enterprises. © Copyright 2024, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Supply Chain Matters alerts clients and readers to a potential replay of the 2021 disruption in global shipping and cascading supply chain disruption as a result of recent events. The cascading effects of the disruption reverberated among multiple industry supply chains and ocean container shipping schedules.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Supply Chain Matters provides an update to our previous posting regarding the announced senior leadership transition that occurred in B2B supply chain platform provider E2open Holdings. © Copyright 2023, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog alerts our readers to today’s breaking early morning news that a looming U.S. The agreement reportedly includes a 24 percent wage increase to be spread over five years from 2020 to 2024, including 14.1 economy and industry supply chains could ill afford a rail disruption at this critical time.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights and perspectives of Amazon’s recently reported Q4 and full year 2023 financial performance. Amazon CFO Brian Olsavsky specifically noted to investors that that AWS customers are still cautious about their IT spending, but expects segment revenue growth to continue to accelerate in 2024.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 5, 2023

National labor contract renewal talks among parcel transportation and logistics services provider UPS and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters labor union have reportedly stalled after indications that a settlement was in reach several days ago. The existing contract between these two parties expires at midnight on July 31.

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ThroughPut

JUNE 24, 2022

AI in the supply chain is here to stay and make waves in the years to come. According to Gartner, supply chain organizations expect the level of machine automation in their supply chain processes to double in the next five years. AI in Supply Chains – The Business Advantages.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 18, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights a published report indicating that PC maker Hewlett Packard is modifying supply sourcing akin to China Plus and nearshoring sourcing actions. computer maker’s first substantial move to diversify its personal computer supply chain beyond China. ” We pointed out that in 2022, more U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 22, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights continued evidence that the U.S. Transportation prices reportedly contracted for the tenth consecutive month, but authors pointed to a lessened rate in the April data. Supply chain pressures reportedly eased to the greatest extent in 14 years. The LMI has now declined 6.7

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Multi-industry supply chain teams across the United States have started this week under the threat of looming rail strike among the nation’s railroad workers. That board reportedly made recommendations that included 24 percent wage increases during the period from 2020 thru 2024 with a 14.1 Background. Stay tuned. .

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

In essence, Target ’s strategy is to make the best of an expected muted holiday quarter, and be better prepared to position 2024 business efforts to a changed retail sales environment, one with lower levels of revenue growth with reduced and more efficient inventory and customer fulfillment costs. Stay tuned. All rights reserved.

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