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. . Canada or Mexico. Prediction Background. Higher cost levels will need to be mitigated or reduced.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 5, 2024

New order growth reportedly accelerated at the fastest in nearly three plus year, which is a likely indication that this region has become the new go-to for China Plus product sourcing strategies. This is not only from the notions of China Plus sourcing actions, but is responding to export demand from other Asian, Europe and U.S.

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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 above seems to imply, from our lens, the movement toward China Plus sourcing activity.

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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.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

CombineNet and Transplace Extend Partnership in Delivering Advanced Transportation Procurement Solution to North America. Transplace delivered more than 50 customer solutions in 2012 using the CombineNet sourcing technology, in industries including consumer goods, chemicals, manufacturing, and retail. Mexico trade.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 6, 2023

Among the activity of the 29 nations that make up this index, only seven had indexes of positive values in December, which included India , Mexico, the Philippines , among four others. Sources; S&P Global and ISM, 2022. For the developing regions sector, India remains a standout, followed by Thailand , Mexico and Indonesia.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 6, 2023

Source: S&P Global Intelligence, July 2023 Highlights of Regional Reporting- Good and Not So Good Continued Production Expansion Across India Increased product demand and manufacturing activity levels across India during June outpaced all other regions. product demand volumes.

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ModusLink Corporation

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Four fundamental practices: Based on (Ali Esfahbodi, 2016) research, Chinese and Iranian governments have focused their fight for SSCM based on four fundamental practices: sustainable procurement, sustainable production along with sustainable distribution , and reverse logistics.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 20, 2022

front that retailers and certain businesses may have procured too much inventory , and now that these inventories have arrived, the challenge will be not to exposed to a decline in consumer buying activity in the months to come. This month, the Economist Intelligence Unit revised its forecast of the overall U.S. inflation rate to be 9.2

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 3, 2023

For example, US-based companies may be quite fortunate if they have access to manufacturers right on their doorstep in Mexico, a country with far lower labour costs than the rest of North America. Through collaboration with your procurement partner, you can reduce inventory levels and then potentially downsize your warehouse capacity needs.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Last evening, global parcel, logistics and transportation services provider Fedex Corp. Equity analysts quickly revised their analysis and outlooks for FedEx and other associated transport and logistics focused businesses. Development. As a result, the carrier announced immediate and direct actions in reducing costs.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Procurement and supply management leaders will be expected to provide both leadership for supply resiliency and added value, but also supply network cost reductions. In the latter category, renegotiation of transportation and logistics contracts will be an obvious action as will analysis of other supply chain cost reduction opportunities.

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Locus

JUNE 3, 2022

Source: Statista.com. Hurricane Ida struck the Gulf of Mexico in August 2021, destroying industrial installations for pharmaceuticals and plastics. Transportation was redirected to be used in providing first aid, leading to supply chain bottlenecks, shortages and price hikes. Ethical sourcing of goods. parts per million.

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Material Handling & Logistics

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Even if a supplier’s factory is not flooded, the infrastructure (power, water, transportation, etc.) Second sources may also be overwhelmed with business and shifting customer priorities. “Let’s not kid ourselves—this is going to be a big supply chain disruption,” says Vakil. needed to operate is not going to be there for weeks.”.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 6, 2020

Lucky are the companies that can shift production to other countries like Mexico or Vietnam. By using AI and ML, companies can better model and predict demand and fine tune their inventory from procurement to transport to warehouse to routing supplies to locations ahead of demand. The third is exports to China.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Whether you''re a manufacturing company in China, a sourcing agent in London or a world''s leading company in Silicon Valley, we''re all in a global supply chain networks. Research from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking in procurement shows that organizations without formal SRM programs report 121 percent longer supplier lead times.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 7, 2022

Higher costs related to energy and transportation reportedly led to Vietnamese manufacturers incurring further increases in selling prices. Whereas, among a grouping of developing regions consisting of China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Vietnam and Thailand , production and supply chain activity levels declined 2.4

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Requis

MARCH 23, 2021

I spent a long time with Bechtel doing large projects all around the world including Mexico, Thailand, Egypt, and India. I joined BP a year before the Deepwater Horizon incident in the Gulf of Mexico. The pressure to be more sustainable also comes from outside sources like governments, banks and customers.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In this developing region category, we want to make mention of countries reporting increased levels of demand which we believe are a likely sign that businesses are actively seeking alternative sourcing of supply network needs. The headline PMI posted a September value of 55.1 up from a value of 53.7 in August and 52.4

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 13, 2022

As organizations look for reducing dependencies on concentrated sources of supply, Eastern Europe, Mexico, and South Asian countries will start providing viable alternatives to the current manufacturing powerhouse countries. Having such options allow them to get to the market faster, turning adversities into advantages.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 3, 2023

Supply Chain Focused Announcements During the investor event, CEO Musk confirmed an earlier announcement of an investment in a new production facility to be located in Monterrey, Mexico , and that this facility is destined to produce the termed next-generation EV vehicle.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 9, 2023

That would include alternatives to China under the umbrella of China Plus sourcing. based companies had indicated in survey data and in concerted actions in termed China Plus sourcing strategies that either alternative, nearshoring, or reshoring efforts were being undertaken. Mexico is near the U.S. billion in September.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 15, 2018

Arzu Tekir ( @Arzu_Tekir ), Co-founder and Head of Strategy & Business Development at URBANARBA, notes, “This growth brings the need for constructing new buildings, roads and transportation systems. ” Procurement structures : “What is the optimum level of private sector participation?”

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Co-location of supply chains will reduce disruptions, complications with transportations, government regulations, etc. At Flex, Tom had a scope that included the entire end to end supply chain: procurement, transportation, warehouse management, as well as customer order fulfillment, customer service, procure to pay, and trade relationships.

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SCMDOJO

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Expertise: Sourcing, Supply Chain Analysis, Logistics & Transportation, Logistics Management Consulting, Freight (Maritime, Land, or Air), Logistics Technology Solutions. He graduated from the Cambridge Academy of Transport and the Chilean and German Commerce Institute with a degree in maritime transport, respectively.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 10, 2023

Bloomberg reported ( Paid subscription ) that “ this summer’s heat has already put millions of people around the world at risk ” including China, India, Mexico and parts of the United States. Once more, this does not solely apply to businesses, but also transportation and logistics services firms as well.

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DELMIA Quintiq

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

The Atlanta-based company demonstrated that companies focusing “heavily on supplier diversity” generated a 133% greater return on procurement investments than the typical business. Kelli Saunders started Morai Logistics Inc,in 2010 as an agent for Mode Transportation, a leading third-party logistics company.

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Resilinc

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

While supply chains are starting to stabilize, Resilinc hopes the pandemic’s lessons will lead procurement and supply chain managers to shift to more regionalized sourcing models. and global OEMs have optimized and globalized sourcing and procurement to reduce labor and other input costs.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 16, 2023

Rail Regulator Approves Canadian Pacific Acquisition of Kansas City Southern Line Background In 2021, a bidding war regarding the proposed acquisition of Kansas City Southern Railway (KCS) involving both Canadian Pacific Railway (CP Rail) and Canadian National Railroad (CN) dominated surface transportation headlines. bound cargo. ”

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 11, 2024

Salvage firm Resolve Marine , which helped contain the Deepwater Horizon massive oil spill in the Gulf Of Mexico has been contracted for these efforts. The Port of Baltimore itself reportedly generates in excess of $3 billion to the local economy including port and other logistics, warehousing and transportation workers.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Southern Atlantic Ocean Region Unusually warm sea temperature levels spanning the tropical Atlantic , Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico regions are rapidly fueling devastating storms. In this storms path have been significant wind and flooding related damage along with disruptions to transportation and logistics that are now being assessed.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 3, 2022

This storm had previously brought destruction and severe flooding among Caribbean regions to include Puerto Rico, Cuba , and other island nations, and rapidly grew to be a Category Four hurricane as it crossed the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Estimates are emerging that it could take months and years for all of the rebuilding to occur.

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Resilinc

APRIL 20, 2021

After almost 40 years in procurement, Tom Linton is still excited about the business of supply chains. What’s going on is a re-balancing … An imbalance was created, one that leaned too heavily on China and other Asian countries, because sourcing was driven by one priority: reducing labor costs.” and near-shoring (moving it closer).

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6 River Systems

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Strategies include sourcing more items directly from manufacturers to improve margins, SKU rationalization and space reduction, “show more carry less” and assisted-store ordering. About 40% of VF Corp’s production is sourced from the Americas, more than double the industry average. million items each day.

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6 River Systems

JULY 25, 2019

As if this wasn’t enough, transportation costs are rising and forcing companies to constantly adjust and optimize. In the meantime, companies need to make sure they have the most talented negotiators and leaders heading up their procurement and supply chain functions. They are multi-national and do $3.5B/year.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 9, 2024

Prediction Background In our prior 2023 predictions published a year ago, we included two separate predictions related to how supply management and their strategic sourcing teams would encounter an added focus on business strategy alignment. The latter, Mexico , has taken prominence as the primary exporter of goods to the U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Companies located predominately in the United States , but including some in Canada and Mexico , reportedly ordered 44,100 robots in 2022, representing an 11 percent year-over-year increase. Reportedly, more than half of 2022 orders were earmarked for newly announced electric vehicle and battery production facilities under construction.

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