Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 28, 2023

In early November, Supply Chain Matter’s highlighted the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) forecast of expected holiday spending to be in the range of a pre-pandemic level of between 3 percent and 4 percent over 2022 levels. percent increase reported for 2021. coasts had estimates ranging from 6 to 7 days.

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Supply Chain Strategies: What the Pandemic Has Taught Us So Far? In a blog at the very start of the COVID-19 outbreak when confirmed cases had just exceeded 40,000, we discussed the considerations for organizations facing the outbreak. Supply Chain Risk Management on the World Stage – Lessons Learned.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 9, 2022

Five days ago, Supply Chain Matters highlighted in a breaking news posting that Dave Clark, Amazon’s overall head of the Consumer business had resigned his leadership position. He stated in-part: “ The supply chain has entered everyday national discourse for all the wrong reason.

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QAD

MAY 23, 2023

Companies that move fast and act smart now can stay ahead of due diligence legislation, mitigate supply chain risk and gain a competitive advantage in the process. As I explained in a recent article on Supply & Demand Chain Executive , organizations that leverage supply chain digitization will be the most likely to succeed.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 16, 2021

Blue Yonder ICON 2021 is right around the corner! Blue Yonder’s annual customer conference – held April 21 – 23, 2021 – will feature powerful keynotes from leading brands and inspiring content—all in an easy to consume FREE digital format. Speakers include Walmart, DHL Supply Chain, Asian Paints, Bayer, and more.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 27, 2024

A day has passed after a container ship lost power and crashed into a support pylon of Baltimore, Maryland’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in the early morning hours of March 26. As we pen this posting, efforts of rescue have now turned to body recovery. Then there are the implications for various industry supply chains.

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BlueYonder

AUGUST 5, 2021

It was one of those great black swan events that kept many of us enthralled for days, but what can this whole event teach us about supply chain resilience? Billions of pixels of digital news have been used to describe how supply chains need to understand the macro picture, like shipping delays and supply impacts.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 11, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights recent manufacturing milestones achieved by electric auto and truck maker Tesla. The long anticipated electric pick-up truck scheduled to be produced at this facility was originally planned for production during 2021 but has now been postponed to sometime next year. In the U.S.,

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Freightera

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Happy National Trucking Week / National Truck Driver Appreciation Week 2021! The National Trucking Week in Canada ends tomorrow, September 11, and the following day begins the National Truck Driver Appreciation week in the USA. They drove days and nights to make sure we had everything we needed.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 7, 2022

That is certainly the case for the supply chain. Zakhar Shapurau, Vice President of Research and Development at Xeneta, writes, “To say that the internet of things is taking supply chain management by storm is something of an understatement. ” TechGig, 28 November 2021. [6] ”[6]. .”

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides our latest news capsule edition follow-up relative to updating our readers to prior industry supply chain management developments that we have shared on this blog. The global automaker who operates non-unionized facilities across the U.S.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 3, 2021

What started as a way to recognize and lift up women in technology and supply chain with our Women’s Interest Network (WIN) in 2014 and “Wednesdays for Women” blog series in 2018 laid an important foundation for the work that lies ahead of us. Wednesdays for Women has evolved into our new DIVE In blog series.

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BlueYonder

AUGUST 31, 2021

This blog is co-authored by Raj Patel, Senior Director Global Industry Strategy 3PL; Terence Leung, Senior Product Marketing Director; and Nina Seth, Product Marketing Director. Almost a year and a half into the COVID-19 pandemic, e-commerce continues to boom, according to the 2021 State of Supply Chain Execution Report.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Now that Veteran’s Day is behind us and the holiday season is quickly approaching, it’s important to discuss suicide awareness as loneliness tends to be common this time of year. was 519 in 2021. military veterans die by suicide every day. military veterans die by suicide every day. Additionally, a new study by the U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters provides a supplemental commentary related to the implications of rapidly rising inbound costs for industry supply chains. . The report observes that in December 2021, U.S. West Coast ports currently averaging over 100 days, more inventory is sitting on ships and not able to be sold.

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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. Global Supply Chain Pressures Index. value reported at the end of December 2021.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Supply Chain Disruption. In a series of blog articles, the Product/Solution Marketing team explores innovative solutions to guard against supply chain disruptions. Every day we’re reminded of the catastrophic effects of climate change. In the U.S.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 15, 2022

Pew asked a national sample of adults to pick select skills from a list of ten, which ‘are most important for children to get ahead in the world today.’ Business writer Nikki Dale observes, “We all use interpersonal skills/competencies (also known as people skills) every day.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 3, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters commentary, we highlight the latest quantitative data related to global manufacturing PMI activity levels for April. The report authors noted that this index, when calculated without the impact of China would have posted a 53.2 This index posted a value of 59.2 value, up from 53.1

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 10, 2023

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group through its affiliate the Supply Chain Matters blog shares select individual prediction snapshots that are included in our annual 2023 predictions for industry and global supply chains research advisory. Background. Prediction Background.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 24, 2022

The State of Supply Chain Sustainability 2021 report tells us that the work for increased supply chain sustainability has not slowed down as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, but is continuing in full force. And at the same time, the pandemic has focused on the need for more resilient supply chains too.

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BlueYonder

AUGUST 1, 2022

At our recent customer conference Blue Yonder ICON , we heard first-hand the chronic and new challenges supply chain, logistics, and commerce executives are facing and their strategies and implementations to realize the next visions. Supply Chain Solutions That Help Fulfill Your Potential. There is good news, however.

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BlueYonder

DECEMBER 22, 2020

This blog is based on an article that recently ran in the Journal of Supply Chain Management, Logistics & Procurement, “ Supply chain agility: An imperative in an unpredictable world.”. In today’s age of great volatility, agility has become the new competitive differentiator.

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Resilinc

MAY 23, 2023

The report, titled “ Driving Force ” investigates automotive supply chains and forced labor in the XUAR. In this blog, we will look at the report’s key findings and discuss the US Senate Finance Committee probe. In 2021, China exported over US $45 billion in auto parts—with the U.S. The plan is working.

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Turvo

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Automation within the shipping and trucking industry helps empower leadership further and allows for better communication, sharing, networking, and collaboration with trucking influencers and managers throughout the supply chain. Her insight makes her one of the leading female trucking influencers as the industry moves into 2021.

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QAD

MARCH 3, 2022

According to a report from Statista , there were almost 15 billion mobile devices worldwide in 2021, which is more than the number of people on the earth. He later took over the presidency of the National Geographic Society and turned what was a dry, unheard-of journal into one of the world’s most beautiful and best-known magazines.

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AB&R

APRIL 29, 2022

Pressure on the global supply chain isn’t likely to let up anytime soon. Labor shortages, port congestion and manufacturing delays are throwing off the supply chain’s delicate balance. Higher demand for products is exacerbating supply chain challenges. What is causing continued supply chain disruption?

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Locus

DECEMBER 1, 2021

As the toy industry and supply chain suffer from this shortage, we can expect more out-of-stock situations for desired toys. As the 2021 holiday season began early, toy shopping started early. It is a colossal task for toy businesses to piece together a supply chain with one delay after another. – Oct 2021.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 22, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters industry specific commentary, we make the observation that retail industry sales and operations planning and demand support teams, given the current state of recent business financial performance, need to up their game in supply network inventory management agility and added responsiveness. .

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Locus

JULY 24, 2023

Supply chain management involves the transportation of freight between locations, and load matching is a small but critical aspect that drives supply chain efficiency. For instance, 41% of global shoppers expect same-day delivery for their purchases. compared to 2021, reaching $2.251 per mile.

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BlueYonder

JUNE 14, 2021

Blue Yonder gives retailers end-to-end supply chain visibility for faster and more informed decision-making. As we move through 2021, it’s critical that grocers solve inventory problems for physical and digital spaces. They will expect that what’s promised can ultimately be delivered, every day, with every order.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

I seethed as the news stations celebrated supply chain success for the December holidays. Let me start this blog by asking, “Shouldn’t you be worried too?” So, I write this blog with this bias. So, I write this blog with this bias. The health of the supply chain underpins our economy.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 13, 2021

Between 1920 and 1929, the nation’s total wealth more than doubled. Recovery from the pandemic may not be that dramatic; however, the nation’s wealth is poised to grow. We are now living in a post-industrial age often referred to as the Digital Age. Not People ,” Supply Chain @ MIT, 20 December 2018. [3]

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NC State SCRC

JULY 9, 2021

The first half of 2021 brought with it a wave of massive changes, as well as new disruptions that augmented the chaos surrounding the mass vaccinations in the United States. In this blog, I reflect on just a few of the issues we are seeing today, and what they might mean for the remainder of 2021… and beyond.

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DynaSys

JANUARY 13, 2021

A Three Part Article Series from QAD DynaSys – COVID-19 and Resilient Supply Chain. In this series, discover how the COVID-19 pandemic gave us the keys to build a resilient supply chain and add value to our Supply Chain. In 2021, COVID-19 and Resilient Supply Chain will not be incompatible.

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Locus

AUGUST 2, 2022

Elon Musk shared an important statement about supply chains in an interview : “The supply chain stuff is really tricky.”Managing Modern enterprises use this model for its quick and convenient order fulfillment of same day deliveries. – US Grocery E-commerce Sales 2019-2024, March 2021.

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Locus

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses in the Middle East fared well in facing supply chain risks compared to those from other regions, despite reportedly facing a high number of logistics shocks as seen in Africa. They have started earmarking their investments for food supply chain networks since the pandemic.

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