Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 4, 2023

However, we discern some added signs excess inventories and of production sourcing shifts. Global Manufacturing Activity Levels Global manufacturing activity as reported by the J.P. From our lens, the latter is evidence of recessionary manufacturing conditions that are now stabilizing. That stated, the reported 49.6

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ToolsGroup

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

As we head into the holiday season, supply delays, logistics constraints and inflation are looming over shoppers and retailers—and the manufacturers and distributors who keep them in supply. Use analytics to put your available inventory to the best use. You’re not powerless against supply chain disruptions! ?

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 3, 2024

Decline in Global Manufacturing Output Levels Global-wide manufacturing levels as depicted in the J.P. Morgan Global Manufacturing PMI® declined in April. At the regional level, improvements across Europe and in Asia continue to close some of the gap.” Manufacturing PMI both reported declines in April. .”

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 17, 2022

This survey of a reported 750 CEO’s and other C-Suite executives was conducted in May 2022, among executives based in North America , Latin America , Asia and Europe. Inventory Management Assessment- Samsung Electronics. Samsung ’s inventory balances reportedly reached the equivalent of $36.9 cyberattacks. Bob Ferrari.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Supply Chain Matters provides our monthly highlights commentary and perspectives on published monthly global manufacturing PMI and supply chain activity indices. Now, with September and full Q3 reporting available, global manufacturing activity has officially fallen below the 50.0 Global Wide Production Activity. represented a 0.5

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AIMMS

JULY 19, 2017

The list includes the best of our blog and news items, our latest webinars and most recent case studies. Looking for a software provider for Business Analytics, S&OP, Inventory Optimization, Production Planning & Scheduling or SC Network Design? Chris Gordon, AIMMS VP North America, discusses this on our blog.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

In this blog post, we’ve compiled a list of over 100 supply chain crisis statistics to help you stay informed and build a more agile, resilient supply chain. It is estimated supply chain disruptions and inventory shortages affect 4% of inventory for some large companies, and 40% of inventory for smaller companies.

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QAD

AUGUST 16, 2022

Unpredictability is undoubtedly the major issue manufacturers face when dealing with fragmented supply chains. As the supply chain breaks, manufacturers must find new suppliers and new transport routes and find them rapidly, so that production doesn’t come to a halt. So, how can manufacturers respond to these challenges?

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 6, 2022

Pre pandemic we were importing the majority of our inventory from East Asia, in particular China and Japan. These businesses often collect tires of high quality as spare inventory and do not have the infrastructure in place to sell them. It’s time to re-think how our products are manufactured and distributed.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 17, 2020

A few months ago, we highlighted a major theme from Gartner’s Supply Chain Planning Summit in our blog: winners change their mindsets–and accelerate through economic turns. Usually disruptive events require redefinition and reconfiguring of the supply chain network in order to identify correct allocation of flows and inventory.

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AIMMS

JULY 19, 2017

The list includes our best supply chain analytics blogs and news items, our latest webinars and most recent case studies. Looking for a software provider for Business Analytics, S&OP, Inventory Optimization, Production Planning & Scheduling or SC Network Design? Browse the map and you’ll find yourself in our stop!

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Logility

MARCH 29, 2022

Manufacturers and shipping companies assumed that because of layoffs, demand would drop. In this blog, we’ll briefly explore some recent supply chain disruptors and how to build a supply chain that can effectively navigate the future. Mistaken assumptions were made that only exacerbated the problem. Recent Supply Chain Disruptions.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

AUGUST 22, 2022

The consequences of global supply chain disruption, labor shortages, rising costs, regional instabilities and general uncertainty continue to challenge the fabricated metal and manufacturing industry in general. Challenge: The supply of raw materials and achieving optimum inventory levels. Solution: End-to-end supply chain visibility.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 3, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights February global manufacturing and supply chain indices and challenges relative to product demand and supply network imbalance levels in the first quarter of 2022. Morgan Global Manufacturing PMI® report, a composite index produced by J.P. Global Wide Production Activity.

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Resilinc

APRIL 17, 2024

In this blog, we investigate the intricacies of single sourcing in supply chain management and shed light on the hidden dangers. This provides benefits like shorter transportation times and improved inventory efficiency. For example, Mattel moved production of Barbie toys from Asia to Mexico.

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Locus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Hosted by Mehul Kapadia, the Chief Revenue Officer at Locus, this webinar provides invaluable insights for businesses, particularly in Asia. To unearth invaluable insights on the state of last-mile delivery across Asia. Insights are just a click away! Read Also: Can Retailers Reinvent the Last Mile?The

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Supply Chain Movement

DECEMBER 10, 2021

When supply chain issues first surfaced earlier this year, the initial culprit was a lack of inventory. The argument was that for years supply chain managers had put too much emphasis on working capital, implementing just-in-time inventory management, and relentlessly pushing inventory levels to absurdly low levels.

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QAD

MARCH 31, 2020

It’s a niche industry, but also one of the cornerstones of discrete parts manufacturing. They’re complex machines assembled from thousands of parts, many purchased from highly specialized manufacturers. Manage consignment inventory. These machines produce the cutting tools other machine tools use to cut metal.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Our featured guest is Graham Scott, Vice President of Global Procurement for global based manufacturing services provider Jabil. He has amassed over 25 years of experience and insights in the EMS industry and in global manufacturing trends and capabilities. He has lived and held leadership roles in Europe , Asia and the U.S.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JUNE 21, 2022

There are many causes, for example, container ships from Asia are now too large to traverse the Panama Canal (20 years ago they were not), so they offload on the West Coast of the United States and are compelled to truck all goods to the East Coast. The focus has been on internal efficiencies over external collaboration.

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 1, 2023

He writes a weekly blog on Linked In which I follow religiously. Inventory will remain bloated for the first half of 2023, – and supplier relationships will be tested. These kinds of behaviors by buyers will come back to bite them in the future… Despite having more inventory – we won’t stop having shortages.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 23, 2015

We first started writing about and featuring reshoring content back in September of 2013, and have since added 10 more reshoring related posts in our reshoring blog category. Many off-shore manufacturers have returned to the U.S., 70% of manufacturers indicate that volatile energy costs are a major concern.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

merchants held a total of nearly $643 billion in inventories, described as being below pre-pandemic level, while the closely watched inventory to sales remained near its lowest point in 30 years. With the on-time arrival times of container ships down to a level of less than 36 percent, and with ocean transit times from Asia to U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 7, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights an added dimension to our monthly summary of global supply chain activity trending and implications. The World Container Index , assessed by Drewy Consultants, is a compilation of eight major shipping routes to and from the United States , Europe and Asia. per 40-foot container.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides commentary and perspectives on FedEx’s sudden and unexpected warning of revenue and profitability shortfall prompting decisive actions. The company’s range of diverse business services spans many dimensions of industry specific logistics, inventory management, transport and last mile services.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 13, 2021

Globally, natural catastrophes are the top concern for businesses in East Asia and the Pacific. A brief look at the GlobalTranz blog for January and February shows about a half dozen winter story advisories across the U.S. The system wasn’t prepared for the surge, driving up pricing for transportation and sapping inventory levels.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Traditional manufacturing favored long production runs of the same product because retooling machines to produce different products could cost time and resources, and waste capacity. In 21st-century manufacturing, however, long production runs are no longer valid. Flexible manufacturing has several benefits.

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ToolsGroup

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The problems we are experiencing now started in March 2020 when COVID hit and suppliers in Asia shut down. . When capacity was cut, so too was the empty supply of containers back to Asia. Many importers operating with just-in-time (JIT) inventory couldn’t get hold of the parts they needed. . Let me bring that to life. .

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 2, 2021

Over the past 15 months, we’ve been writing on the Argentus blog about the immense impacts that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on global supply chains – particularly, as you might expect of a recruitment firm, from the perspective of talent and skills. Particularly – as per usual on the Argentus blog – from the perspective of talent.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 15, 2022

This week, the company announced a reversal in manufacturing and supply chain strategy, as well as a major turnabout. The company will henceforth outsource the manufacturing of its stationary exercise bikes and treadmills to a Taiwan based contract manufacturer. Pivot Toward Internal Manufacturing Presence.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 18, 2023

In early April 2022, economists at Goldman Sachs indicated that supply chain resilience was a top-of-mind topic for manufacturers and retailers and observed that three main strategies were being undertaken. Bob Ferrari © Copyright 2023, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JUNE 14, 2022

Data plays a huge role in the ability to manufacture companies to draw powerful insights and create transformative experiences for customers and business growth. Many manufacturers just aren’t maximising its value and missing out on the unmatched efficiencies it provides. Collecting data for effective usage with business intelligence.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In our prior highlights and perceptions of September and Q3-2023 published indices , we observed that the numbers once again signaled added contraction in global manufacturing output and product demand levels. Global Wide Manufacturing Activity Levels Global manufacturing activity as reported by the J.P. down from the 49.2

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Post Pandemic Inventory Priorities: High Turnover or Extra Inventory? Literally all types of raw materials have been hit with shortages in the face of mass demand as businesses seek to hoard and pre-order as much as possible, deal with the freight gridlock from Asia to the rest of the world, and satisfy the huge demand of the consumer.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 15, 2022

Reportedly McCarthy’s goal is to transform the company “ primarily into a subscription-based company rather than an equipment manufacturer.” based manufacturing strategy, with a decision to source manufacturing at a CMS provider located in Taiwan. Inventory Glut of Bicycles. West Coast were in excess of 200 days.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 23, 2022

After a three-day stoppage of rail operations impacting transcontinental shipments of key commodities and manufactured goods, the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference have reached a settlement calling for final and binding arbitration of differences. Stated drivers of the changed routings from Asia to U.S.

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Despite higher inflation, the EIU predicts that recession is highly unlikely in 2022, due to the fact that many economies (including the US, Asia, and the Middle East) are experiencing solid growth and are in rebound mode. Conflict erupts between China and Taiwan (Andrew said this is not likely, and I agree – see my previous blog ).

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