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Steel: The Perfect Material for a Circular Economy, but with a Huge Decarbonization Challenge

DELMIA Quintiq

Steel plays a crucial role in almost all industries—even in those where its application is not as apparent. The food industry, for instance, depends on steel for its use in building greenhouses. For example, old steel used in an industrial context can be recycled into consumer products such as home appliances, automobiles and more.

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Samsung Electronics Warning on Q4 Profitability Portends High Tech Supply Network Challenges in 2023

Supply Chain Matters

As businesses either warn or report their financial performance for the final quarter of 2022, Supply Chain Matters highlights select bellwether firms that can be considered a relatively good indicator of ongoing industry supply chain challenges. That profitability warning represented the lowest profit for the company since Q3-2014.

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Samsung Electronics 2023 Financials-Weakest Profitability in a Decade

Supply Chain Matters

Key industry supply chain bellwether firm Samsung Electronics reported Q4 and full year 2023 financial performance, headlined as being the weakest profitability levels in a decade. The Company will meet demand for semiconductors for AI applications and expand into AI-enabled consumer product markets. percent to KRW 2.82

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Say Customer Service and Mean It

Supply Chain Shaman

In the process, the only constant was disruption: Appliance Failure. Will took the order, and Dan delivered the product. As a result, when I turned on the new washer, I ruined the appliance. In my work with clients, customers bandy about the term “customer-centric supply chain.” The reason? Wrong Stuff.

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Reverse Logistics – What Happens to Stuff We Return?

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Last year, I attended a three-day conference in Las Vegas conducted by the Reverse Logistics Association, a trade group whose members deal with product returns, unsold inventories and other capitalist jetsam. I asked what proportion of returned products are resold as new. The industry term is DIF, for “destroy in field.”

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Added Evidence of Emerging Regionalization of Global Supply Networks

Supply Chain Matters

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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Supply chains aren’t broken, it’s more a question of demand

Supply Chain Movement

Mainstream news reports are full of claims that supply chains are broken, citing widespread product shortages, overflowing ports and spiking freight costs. Across all industries, inventory, when compared to demand, is significantly higher than it was 15 years ago. By Richard Markoff and Ralf W. The infrastructure is far from perfect.