Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

In this second Supply Chain Matters reader update, we highlight the ongoing supply chain and manufacturing implications of the labor strike involving the three U.S. Today, China based EV automakers and suppliers have notable cost advantages in materials sourcing, production and labor costs. unionized auto companies. Thus, some U.S.

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NC State SCRC

JULY 19, 2022

I had the pleasure of hearing Professor Jason Miller from Michigan State University speak to the Center for Advanced Purchasing Studies members today, sharing with us a variety of fascinating charts and figures that he pulled from all of the publicly available data produced by the federal government – most of it is census data.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Changing the way people buy apparel Matthew Wallace has worked in a number of apparel management roles over his career, including as a Senior Director of Sourcing for Merchandising at Walmart, a senior VP at apparel manufacturer PVH (which owns Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein), and currently the CEO of Project DXM (Digital Xpress Model).

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3PL Insights

MAY 3, 2021

Evans365 accesses and analyzes data sets from Evans’ warehouse management system and other data sources and presents findings graphically. We will continue to improve evans365 by integrating additional data sources and providing even more valuable metrics,” Evans says. This is only the beginning.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

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. Other manufacturing hubs in China, particularly in Hubei province, have also been badly hit by the coronavirus outbreak. . million units.

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Resilinc

APRIL 27, 2021

government must retool supply chains to reduce national security vulnerabilities that stem from China’s dominance in mining and manufacturing. With industries from automotive to smartphones in turmoil over semiconductor shortages, the panelists warned that things could get much worse a few years. allies,” said Goto. This is alarming.”.

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 1, 2023

My colleague Jason Miller from Michigan State is an expert at navigating the many different publicly available government database, and interpreting the tea leaves. Walmart will pay more for domestic sources, but will not be burdened with the inventory and purchasing FOB. Inflation will persist.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Last Friday the labor union elected to target the Ford Motor assembly plant in Chicago that assembles the Ford Explorer SUV , and a General Motors final assembly plant in Lansing Michigan that assembles the Chevrolet Traverse SUV. Both facilities included an added 7,000 workers.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Troy, Michigan based Meritor caters to supplying commercial truck, trailer, off-highway, defense, specialty and aftermarket customers globally. Meritor has a similar 100-year-old legacy and both manufacturers were originally spun off from Rockwell International in 1997. Supply Chain Matters Perspectives.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 23, 2023

In a previously published Supply Chain Matters commentary in February, we highlighted Ford’s plans to operate and manage a battery production plant in Michigan , with technology collaboration from South Korea based battery producer CATL who will license its intellectual properties for battery technologies to Ford. powered EV’s.

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 8, 2016

As a young assistant professor at Michigan State University in 1992, I was part of a group called the Global Procurement Benchmarking Initiative. An automotive executive recalls how difficult this was given the technology limitations that existed in the early 1970’s. Leveraging and strategic sourcing has gotten in the way of that.

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QAD

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout its 75-year history, PennEngineering has been recognized as the go-to fastening resource for virtually every industry, from computers and electronics, data/telecom, medical, and automotive, to marine, aerospace/avionics and general manufacturing categories. Lessons learned from CAPA are archived. Document Control.

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 18, 2023

deliver analytics that predict defects on the manufacturing line”) and the cloud-based software that IT deployed was poorly managed such that it became hardto decipher how all that cloud spend related to IT initiatives. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1997. So what happened?

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