Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 30, 2023

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group, via its affiliated Supply Chain Matters blog calls reader attention to two recently published research papers that address evidence of ongoing shifts in global supply component and end production sourcing. The data is quite extensive in terms of scope and activity levels. imports peaked at 21.6

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Over his 30+ year career in the supply chain, Richard has worked with manufacturers around the world in operations, supply chain, and lean strategy roles to develop systems that can manage complex supply chains on a global scale. Richard previously founded and led Factory Logic, Inc. acquired by SAP). The Greenscreens.ai

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Supply Chain Collaborator

JUNE 25, 2020

Will the trend toward a return to “regional manufacturing” boost volumes in over the road transportation in North America as manufacturers move away from Asian overseas operations? Global supply chains were being disrupted long before Covid-19 emerged,” says Kamala Raman, senior director analyst with the Gartner Supply Chain Practice.

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The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Paul is the Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Verusen , a supply chain intelligence platform, purpose-built to help manufacturers streamline their MRO supply and materials management. For manufacturers: Optimizes inventory and harmonizes data to reduce costs, improve visibility, and make better sourcing decisions.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Anthony is the Chief Economist for FreightWaves , the leader in global supply chain market intelligence. Anthony Smith is the Chief Economist for FreightWaves, the leader in providing global supply chain market intelligence. Anthony Smith is the Chief Economist for FreightWaves, the leader in global supply chain market intelligence.

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3PL Insights

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Amidst all of these stories of shortages and bottlenecks, we thought it would be helpful to explain the basics of shipping ocean freight. In this article, we will explain the shipping process, identify the different types of cargo, and show the benefits of ocean freight shipping. What is Ocean Freight? Benefits of Ocean Freight.

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QAD

JANUARY 4, 2022

QAD CMO Carter Lloyds described shipping delays, energy issues/sustainability challenges and the Carbon Bubble as three major industry disruptors affecting manufacturers. Lack of real-time communication between the manufacturing enterprise suppliers, third-party logistics providers and consumers. Rise in ocean freight rates.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Since early 2020, global trade has been buffeted by waves of increased customer demand, supply chain challenges, and constant uncertainty and volatility. Take Conner, the manufacturer of FORT, a magnetic pillow fort. But then global freight kicked in. . A 30% raise in costs wasn’t going to totally kill us.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 10, 2024

Background Throughout 2022 and 2023, we have highlighted for readers the various indications of Apple’s unfolding China Plus sourcing moves. That culminated in our research arm’s published December 2023 Supply Chain Matters update, Apple’s Unfolding China Plus Sourcing Strategy for iPhone Production.

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3rdwave

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Managing a global supply chain network requires the ability to manage and control both global transportation execution and the associated freight spend. In a constantly shifting and competitive global trading environment, it is increasingly important to control all costs across the entire supply chain.

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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. Air freight is already down 50% and we are seeing a backlog of shipping on the Yangtze River.”[3]

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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. A published Future of Freight study sponsored by Deloitte in September 2022 indicated that U.S.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Manufacturers and distributors experienced huge supply chain disruptions due to the pandemic which exposed many vulnerabilities and tested the resilience of supply chain leaders globally. Manufacturing KPIs. In fact, SYSPRO research revealed that 60% of businesses were impacted by supply chain disruptions during the pandemic.

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Unleashed

DECEMBER 15, 2019

It’s easy to oversimplify the differences between sourcing for parts locally or internationally. When considering where to purchase from, the prevailing idea seems to be that domestic sourcing allows for better control and shorter lead time, but international sourcing is more cost-effective. International Sourcing.

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Proxima

AUGUST 25, 2022

Simon Geale recently spoke to CNBC about how China’s strict Covid restrictions are having a ripple effect on global supply chains. China is the world’s largest exporting economy, and second largest importer, holding eight of the top twenty ports globally.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 17, 2019

Nevertheless, over the past few years there have been some significant changes in the manufacturing sector, including the maturation of additive manufacturing and the emergence of the Internet of Things (often referred to as the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)). Manufacturing trends. ”[1] Those arguments still hold.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 5, 2023

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights of April 2023 reported global and regional PMI indices which continue to reinforce a state of contraction level stabilization within global supply chain networks. Some good news is that the reported data reinforces that global supply chain wide pressures have eased considerably.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Ivalua Blog [ivory-search] Weathering Future Disruptions: 8 Steps to Building Supply Chain Resilience February 8, 2023 | | Manufacturing by Doug Keeley In the face of an unprecedented global crisis, Procurement stepped up to become a crucial driving force for business continuity. Work to achieve 100% supply chain visibility.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 22, 2023

freight and logistics industry continues to mitigate recessionary conditions including the April 2023 Logistics Manager Index reaching its lowest level lowest level in six years and one-half years. freight, logistics and parcel movement industry. Freight rate reportedly fell 37 percent. The LMI has now declined 6.7

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MARCH 16, 2021

All these events combined, plunged the global economies into multiple catastrophies—global shutdowns, negative economic growth and huge monitory and human losses. From March to Augus 2020, it was meltdown situation with supply and demand severely imbalanced: Global geographies shut down reducing exposure of human to human infections.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

However, if your role is managing the movement of widgets from point A to point B, or multiple points, the freight procurement task before you can be labor intensive and time consuming — unless you use a technology solution specifically designed for transportation sourcing. Freight is unique. Relationships matter.

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Freightos

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

The coronavirus outbreak has the whole global community concerned and hoping for the swift containment of this humanitarian crisis. . In addition to the terrible human cost, the virus is also sending ripples throughout the global supply chain. million freight containers each year.

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Resilinc

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Mexico is seeing strong growth in manufacturing. market and secure redundant sources of supply. As Resilinc blog readers know, the imperative to develop multiple supply sources arose from the unprecedented disruptions and delays of the last two and a half years. Due to strong U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 7, 2023

freight rates have reached their lowest levels in nearly six years. In essence, it is confirmation of a freight recession condition. That is not good for retailers and manufacturers, each under the looking glass to reduce not only transportation but also inventory carrying costs. All rights reserved. The post U.S.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

The freight industry of today is evolving rapidly. It is no longer bound by the traditional constraints of the economy, and Amazon is gearing up to begin expanding to be the best of the global freight shipping providers. 8 Freight Shipping Trends Shippers Must Know for 2017. Freight Rates Will Increase.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 30, 2016

As shippers of all sizes expand their global sourcing, manufacturing, and distribution operations, they have to navigate the complexities involved with global transportation management. What are the main challenges global shippers face today? “It

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GlobalTranz

MAY 5, 2015

Since 2011, the federal government focused on changing this paradigm and made American manufacturing a priority. Under the guidance of the Department of Commerce/NIST , they developed an infrastructure with dedicated funding to rebuild our manufacturing sector. manufacturing.” Below is an overview of this program.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

APRIL 13, 2022

Even before the pandemic, global supply chain were fragile thanks to factors such as the US-China trade war, less efficient shipping routes and a huge drive to cut costs by consolidating loads. Just as manufacturers and distributors were starting to climb out of the ‘COVID hole’, they’ve been knocked back in.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 4, 2022

In our prior published Supply Chain Matters commentary, we reviewed and provided some added insights on July’s global manufacturing PMI indices which are pointing to declining global supply chain production momentum. A July edition provided two reports that responded to the question- Are Global Supply Chains Recovering ?

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Manufacturing & Logistics IT

NOVEMBER 17, 7180

Global provider of Intelligent Sourcing Automation, Keelvar, has launched its new AI-powered ocean freight sourcing automation solution.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights the increasing realities of declining global trade and freight rates that are occurring in the first-half of 2023. Background Global wide transportation and logistics costs increased at unprecedented rates during 2021 and 2022. percent decline in global trade.

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3rdwave

JUNE 21, 2019

For an equal amount of time, the global trading community has largely ignored the issue and not invested in solutions designed to dramatically increase a company’s supply chain resiliency, flexibility, and agility. The resiliency of its global supply chains are going to be stress tested. Flexible, configurable sourcing.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Last week, global online retail platform provider Amazon made yet added moves in reinforcing the online retailer’s intent to be a player in one-day global parcel transport and logistics. These Airbus aircraft are the first for Amazon Air and reportedly the largest when placed into regional and global-wide service.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Companies of all sizes have been capturing the value from Global Supply Chain to increase the economies of scale and scope for years. Due to the rapid change in global business environment, managers find it difficult to gain the edge over competitors. However, you may wonder what kind of practices really work.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 20, 2022

There is now an urgent need for manufacturers, retailers and logistics services providers to be able to address added efficiency, ensure needed flexibility in supply chain execution processes while simultaneously ratcheted-up supply chain sustainability efforts. All rights reserved.

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ThroughPut

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

companies with global operations, one of the most effective global value chain strategies and supply chain strategies is to mitigate risk by shipping smarter. Everything from custom duties to cargo inspections can create bottleneck operations within the global supply chain strategies. In the current political climate, U.S.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Late 2021 saw Maersk continue to shift towards vertical integrations, with acquisition of Senator, a German freight forwarder for $644 million dollars. For a forwarder, refraining from working with Maersk today is expensive because it removes 17% of global shipping capacity. Accelerating the shift. Image via StarAir.dk).

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