AFFLINK

AUGUST 17, 2022

The purpose of any supply chain is to get materials from the point of origin to the place of need as quickly and inefficiently as possible. In today's market — now pockmarked by erratic supply chain disruptions — fulfillment is easier said than done. Top Distributor Challenges: 1.

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Unleashed

AUGUST 3, 2021

Here we provide an overview of the latest pet food industry trends, and answer the question: how can pet food manufacturers respond to changes in consumer demands to take advantage of these new trends? manufacturing had seen five years of consistent growth. manufactured?pet purchase in bulk, hoarding quantities?of

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Amazon achieved its fastest-ever global shipping times last year but isn’t resting on its laurels. Department of Transportation, which has selected 37 projects to be given funds made available by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s (BIL) Mega Program and the Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) Grant Program.

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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. The 2021 supply chain shortage is the story of our lives today, as the enormous bullwhip effect of COVID continues.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 19, 2022

are reporting that they are being inundated with requests from importers seeking to use provisions such as the “321 de minimis” rule, which allows goods worth less than $800 to be shipped to the U.S. Alternatively, you may want to relocate – totally or in part – where your product is manufactured. without being subject to tariffs.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Digital Twin from Infor Nexus Drives Supply Chain Agility for Molex. The fact that most manufacturers struggled to achieve supply chain agility during COVID is not news. The Molex Supply Chain. The Molex global supply chain is complex. This involves a lot of long-haul transportation.”

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USC Consulting Group

MARCH 27, 2023

What’s on the road ahead for consumer goods manufacturing? Supply chain woes. Here are some trends affecting the consumer goods manufacturing industry today: Consumer Goods Manufacturing Trends Challenges remain on the road ahead, but the ride is getting smoother. Continued supply chain disruptions.

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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. Timing was a further crucial factor.

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Unleashed

AUGUST 20, 2023

If a manufacturer has to wait an extra day for raw materials to arrive, they might lose a customer. Here we break down what lead time is, the types of lead times in supply chain management , the factors that affect lead time, and how to shorten lead times to provide a better customer experience. Let’s dive in.

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Logility

JUNE 30, 2022

Today’s supply chain is challenged by the impact of what would appear to be two disparate challenges: constant supply chain disruptions, and what’s been dubbed “The Great Resignation.” resigned from their jobs in durable goods manufacturing. Roughly 25% of workers plan to change jobs in 2022.

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QAD

MAY 23, 2023

The goal, from a manufacturing perspective, is clear: learn how to do more with less as efficiently as possible while maintaining profitability and complying with due diligence legislation. In a recent BearingPoint survey, a whopping 85% of companies attribute their move to sustainable procurement practices to government regulations.

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Locus

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Presently, their major focus lies on local production, warehousing and strategic sourcing. Major supply chain risks in the Middle East. Transportation: Trade routes blockage – Congestion at ports. million barrels of oil a day go through the canal, according to shipping journal Lloyd’s. Cyber attacks.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 24, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters posting, we highlight a published analysis from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco quantifying the effects of supply chain disruptions have had on the existing U.S. © Copyright 2022, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2021

If your company’s supply chain survived 2020 and the disruptions of early 2021, it’s safe to say it has passed the supply chain resiliency test. Supply chain disruption has many sources: tariffs and trade disputes, natural disasters, pandemics, economic uncertainty and cybersecurity attacks.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 25, 2022

As the calendar now moves to the second half of 2022, it is important to focus on rapidly changing developments including a marked escalation in geopolitical tensions that impact global supply chain strategies. Restoring More Direct Control in Materials Sourcing. Geo-Political and Hybrid Government Policy Dimensions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

As physical stores opened, shut down and re-opened again, consumers became more flexible in the way they shop for, and purchase, just about every product. This new behavior means that manufacturers and retailers need to anticipate consumer needs across channels with more accuracy than ever.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 3, 2024

However, the lessons garnered during the pandemic will likely drive inventory management toward less of a dependency on global-wide sourcing and more toward product postponement sourcing and customer fulfillment strategies. Truck and rail transportation movements across the Mexico and U.S. and the United Kingdom.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

Driving Sustainable Growth Through Supply Chain Resilience. Every industry sector and every business across the board, in APAC and around the globe have been impacted by the Great Supply Chain Disruption over the last two years, causing a blow out of transportation costs and continuous delays at every stage of the channel.

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Ware2Go

JANUARY 10, 2022

Should you change your supply chain procurement strategy in light of continuing supply chain disruptions? Supply chain procurement strategies had long been favoring Just in Time procurement. Should they be moving away from a Just in Time procurement method to Just in Case?

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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.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 17, 2021

2020 was a tumultuous year for supply chains, and 2021 has certainly followed suit. With summer winding down, we take a look back at the major trends that occurred in ocean shipping in the first half of 2021 and reflect on what your organization can do to proactively prevent major supply chain disruption.

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American Global Logistics

MARCH 5, 2024

Persistent Red Sea Risks Continue to Disrupt Critical Trade Route The ongoing conflict in Yemen has created several shipping risks in the Red Sea. In particular, there is a risk of Houthi rebels laying mines in the shipping lanes. That's a hard-to-prevent risk that could damage or sink ships.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 10, 2023

2023 Prediction Three: More Direct Control in Strategic or Tactical Multi-tiered Direct Materials Sourcing will Continue to be a Prominent Element of Business Strategy for Chief Supply Chain or Chief Procurement Officer Efforts. . based manufacturing facilities had soared by over 116 percent. billion in September.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The year featured continual component shortfalls, explosive inbound materials cost increases and continuous global transportation disruptions. As the year 2021 drew to a close, industry supply chains experienced a constant struggle in attempting to respond to overwhelming pandemic related product demands.

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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. Global Manufacturing Output Levels Declined. The Global Manufacturing Output sub-index reportedly dropped to a contraction value of 48.5 According to the J.P.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 21, 2021

He writes, “Global supply chains were clearly in trouble before COVID-19 arrived on the scene, but when it did, the weakness of our time-honored strategies for procurement, production and delivery became shockingly evident. ”[2] He insists supply chain innovation today is not a choice, but an imperative. .”

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Containers wait at each ship node for the chassis. Disruptions exist at each node and will continue for many years. Manage Make, Source, and Deliver Together. At the enterprise level, manufacturers and retailers focus on corporate efficiency. Figure 1: Current State of a Global Manufacturer of White Goods.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 21, 2023

While transport providers including FedEx , the U.S. Postal Service, Amazon Logistics and others will seek to handle any fallout, the sheer volume level exceeds available industry capacity and will result in cascading disruptions for industry supply chains. transportation and logistics interests.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 7, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights additional developments, evidence and added signs that reinforce that there will be no peak holiday focused surge in transportation and logistics in the latter half of 2023. In the past we would expect to see transportation and warehousing ramping up hiring in late summer ahead of peak season. ”

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Containers wait at each ship node for the chassis. Disruptions exist at each node and will continue for many years. Manage Make, Source, and Deliver Together. At the enterprise level, manufacturers and retailers focus on corporate efficiency. Figure 1: Current State of a Global Manufacturer of White Goods.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 20, 2020

This article explores 10 possible areas in which can help at each stage of the flow in Supply Chain Management. Procurement. Procurement can also have RPA do dynamic searches of websites to source or conduct market research for future buys and tenders. Purchase Order Management. Price Lookup and Comparison.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Rogers pointed out three sources of food supply chain woes: war, COVID-19, and climate change. Journalist Marnie Shure ( @marnieshure ) offers up a few more reasons the food supply chain is experiencing difficulty.[2] ” • Transportation woes. 2] They are: • Increase in demand. Packaging constraints.

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Elementum

MAY 19, 2022

The industrial revolution and the advent of the railroad and ocean freighters opened the door to national and global supply networks. The 50’s saw the development of “containerization” which enabled intermodal (ship, rail, air, truck) transport. Worldwide, more than 450 million people work in the supply chain industry. •

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QAD

APRIL 26, 2022

The supply chain expo MODEX 2022 held last month included a keynote presentation highlighting the 2022 MHI Annual Industry Report “Evolution to Revolution: Building the Supply Chains of Tomorrow.” He then proposes three critical questions chief supply chain officers (CSCOs) should be asking.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 15, 2022

By now our Supply Chain Matters readers have already viewed headlines of yet another COVID-19 variant induced lockdown of certain manufacturing and port facilities in China. China’s zero tolerance coronavirus outbreak policies were likely cause additional disruptions this year and that has come to pass. Call to Action.

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NC State SCRC

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The current set of supply chain disruptions is being set off by a combination of COVID cases and energy disruptions in manufacturing hubs around the world, labor shortages, lack of capital infrastructure investment, misaligned transportation resources ( a lack of containers, ships, and trucks), and surges in consumer demand.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 7, 2022

We now add highlights of March and Q1-2022 key global transportation and logistics indices. March and now Q1-2022 data point to continued disruption, added cost inflation and elongated transit times continuing to be manifested in the months ahead. . Global and Domestic Transportation and Logistics Indices. Global Shipping.

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