Enterra Insights

APRIL 4, 2023

Who are its customers? According to Adam Tooze , an economic historian and director of the European Institute at Columbia University, “We now find ourselves in the midst of the most comprehensive tightening of monetary policy the world has seen.”[2] We have never done this before on this scale. Very likely.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 9, 2023

We all recognize that the world’s supply chains need to operate in a sustainable manner and minimize their environmental impacts — but recent events have brought this closer to home than ever. days to 9 days , creating devastating delays, new product introductions and working capital challenges for many shippers.

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Freightos

MAY 31, 2022

This isn’t just about consumerism; it’s inspiring to think that in purchasing an imported product, we are, in a tiny way, helping provide employment for people across our planet, often in developing countries. We passed this cost on to the lighting fixture manufacturers, who no doubt passed on these costs to the consumers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 5, 2022

ARC analysts have published predictions about supply chain technology trends at the beginning of the year in past years. We expect direct impacts to diminish in 2022. However, we expect the secondary effects and the responses to these disruptions to exert longer-term impacts on supply chains and their functioning.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 2, 2023

” Time ‘s Editor-in-Chief Edward Felsenthal wrote, “The process of choosing the Person of the Year — who or what most influenced the events of the past 12 months, for good or for ill — can be agonizing. .” Do we lean into the light, reach into the darkness, or land somewhere in between?

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 18, 2024

Digital transformation is an ongoing process so we can expect to see this year’s breakthrough trends continuing to shape society into next year.”[1] As noted above, generative AI captured many headlines this past year. With AI, we can do just that. Artificial Intelligence Trends Rise of the Prompt Engineer.

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Kinaxis

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

The increase in extreme weather events is becoming commonplace for the supply chain community and the challenge of managing around these supply chain disruptions is the new norm. Let’s just look at some events: 2017 – Hurricane Irma (plus others). It wasn’t hard to find numerous examples for any given year in the past decade.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

COVID shutdowns, the wars in Ukraine and Gaza and increasing tension over Taiwan show that it is past time to evaluate reshoring and nearshoring as insurance against catastrophic disruptions.”[3] Unfortunately, in a world characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity, things seldom go as planned.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Great memories here, as so much has changed in the supply chain research world these past 5+ years. All ex-AMR analysts on the stage, talking about the ‘Top 15 Supply Chains we Admire’. The panel discussed the Top 15 Supply Chains we Admire, as built off the Supply Chain Index. So, drum roll please…. General Mills.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

From wildfires in Greece and Hawaii to the tropical storm that dumped a record amount of rainfall on Los Angeles, extreme climate-related events have filled the headlines. But if you want to go and really change the environment, then we need to start telling China and India that they have to lower their emissions.” Yes, it is.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

” One reason Harris, and many others, are so unsure of the future is because they don’t trust the news coming out of China. Renaud Anjoran ( @ranjoran ), a business executive based in China, writes, “The situation is pretty dark, with a new virus spreading like wildfire and governments resorting to extreme measures.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

OCTOBER 15, 2023

The Approach to Effective Freight Procurement by LSCMS Shippers’ Council Container shipping procurement faces a multitude of challenges shaped by global events, industry shifts, environmental mandates, and technological advancements. To thrive in this ever-evolving landscape, shippers must embrace a flexible and responsive approach.

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QAD

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Source: Xinde Marine News. In a recent International Monetary Fund blog, the authors point out: “ Energy supply, in fact, has reacted slowly to price signals due to labor shortages, maintenance backlogs, longer lead times for new projects, and lackluster interest from investors in fossil fuel energy companies.” Time will tell.

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Elementum

AUGUST 2, 2022

We review how those trends are likely to impact Supply Chain and what leaders can do to adjust. We’ll also highlight emerging technologies that we believe can have an outsized impact on global supply chains. The first of these events was in January of 1982, preceding the Latin American Debt Crisis. How did we get here?

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Taulia

MARCH 15, 2021

The past two weeks have been unlike any other for the Supply Chain Finance industry and Taulia. A concept that was quite foreign to many has suddenly found itself on the evening news and in nearly every major business publication. Yet despite all the coverage on the topic there is still so much confusion.

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Resilinc

JULY 21, 2023

Thousands of loyal fans are excited for the new Barbie movie premiering this July 21, featuring the pink-loving character who was an iconic figure in so many childhoods. But who could’ve guessed that Barbie’s love of pink could somehow be tied to a global pink paint shortage?

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Over the past couple of years, there have been an increasing number of discussions about the need for supply chains to become more flexible, adaptable, and agile. Over the past couple of years, there have been an increasing number of discussions about the need for supply chains to become more flexible, adaptable, and agile. ”[2].

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Seasonal inventory refers to goods associated with specific periods or events that cause demand fluctuation throughout the year. Or perhaps, it’s early summer and the local hardware store just got a new shipment of lawn mowers. Though, apparently, some people prefer their Peeps aged …We won’t go down that rabbit hole. ).

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The Event The Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM) recently concluded its ASCM CONNECT 2023 North America Conference. Supply Chain Matters shares interview highlights with ASCM CEO Abe Eshkenazi in conjunction with this years ASCM CONNECT 2023 Conference. They need to be prepared with response plans and added capabilities.”

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 27, 2020

Several months into the COVID-19 pandemic the talk of a settled “new normal” gives us hope for stability and a return to what was before. But for whatever sense of past normalcy we aspire to this experience equally conjures up our sense of impermanence – or that our lives are constantly in a state of flux to which we must sense and adapt.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 20, 2023

Perhaps this is why commentary is re-titled as This “Year” in Supply Chain Tech since the world of tech has been upended by an ongoing series of events. As the PitchBook platform astutely noted in its post event editorials: “ SVB was nimble and innovative in a landscape where traditional banks had been fusty and slow.”

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Kinaxis

DECEMBER 20, 2017

But the weather had been poor the past month, and certainly not conducive for the last minute production crunch leading up to Christmas. Mentally preparing himself for the insanity the next 24 hours would bring, Santa mulled over the past year. You know the old saying, no news is good news!”. But how can that be?”

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 6, 2023

Indeed, of the 828m people who do not get enough food, nearly 60% live in countries racked by conflict. We got very good at growing more food, and globalization allowed that food to move around the world. In the past half-decade, armed conflicts escalated across the world: Syria, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Nigeria, Myanmar.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Moving on, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: Amazon Is Testing Its Own Delivery Service to Rival FedEx and UPS (Bloomberg Technology). Just look at the news this week from Amazon, Walmart, and Target. Walmart has done pilots tests in the past with Uber, Lyft, and Deliv for grocery delivery.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Local, regional, and global supply chains are affected by these geopolitical events. Finally, according to this theory, democracies are less likely to fight and more likely to cooperate, and the major waves of democratization around the world over the past 70 years have made the globe a more peaceful place.”

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Enterra Insights

JULY 22, 2020

“[1] Business people who don’t understand numbers don’t stay in business very long. I’m reminded of the story of two men who bought a truck and went into the watermelon business. When it became obvious they weren’t making a profit, one of the men said, “Maybe we need a bigger truck.”

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 11, 2021

Repent of your sins all ye who enter here. That’s only a mild overstatement of the media’s fire-and-brimstone accounts of the latest report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a collection of scientists and politicians who purport to offer the best evidence on climate change. How bad have things become?

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights past comments from Akio Toyoda, former CEO and now Chairman of Toyota Motor , and now the potential realization of what he predicted. Industry Headwinds Supply Chain Matters has featured multiple automotive industry transformation specific commentaries of the past several months.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

As in the past, technology also has a role to play in improving agricultural output. If humanity is to have a hope of addressing climate change, we must reimagine farming.” And farmers will have to meet this challenge in the face of a changing climate with increasingly extreme weather patterns.”[1] Farming 4.0. ”[3].

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 6, 2023

West Coast ports as a result of new job actions among frustrated dockworkers, as labor contract negotiations become tense. The most significant news in global transportation and logistics circles late last week and this week are U.S. Further, as we indicated in a prior commentary, the U.S.

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ivalua

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Procurement’s stature has grown during the COVID-19 crisis as costs, cash flow and supply continuity quickly became top boardroom priorities and homepage news. The city of New York adjusting normally cumbersome processes to secure new sources of supply for unprecedented numbers of ventilators. Examples abound.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

DECEMBER 17, 2020

This past year has been full of adjustment. As the pandemic spread, spending time with friends and family, water cooler conversations with co-workers, and even dependence on a resilient supply chain turned out to be necessities we had taken for granted. Current events impacting global shipping in 2021. “By

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 26, 2015

Economic markets plummeting… D aily we see the financial charts roll across the news. The new valuation and the impact on markets is swinging the global stock market. The new valuation and the impact on markets is swinging the global stock market. Volatility. Demand redefined. The water cooler is buzzing.

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BlueYonder

JUNE 27, 2017

I ran into a couple of examples this past week on the awesome potential of big data and social media – to do both harm and good. Both events were fully available on the internet, in that thing we call “big data.” for those who want to know. So what do earthquakes and chicken have in common? And there were no earthquakes.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 17, 2018

This isn’t breaking news, but it is new for the industry. Prescriptive Analytics (How can we do better?). But as we dug deeper, each executive we questioned, each transformation and analytics project we heard of falling short, comes back to the same root failure; the data was undependable and full of holes.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 4, 2021

… If you do something wrong, we know who you are. … If they do something wrong, we can delete the whole chain.”[6] Numerous experts are touting the benefits of blockchain technology for everything from cryptocurrencies to supply chain processes. Journalist James T. Concluding Thoughts.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Maritime insurance executives estimate that 3,000 containers have been lost at sea over the past few months alone. The good news is, there are steps you can take to help prepare for any delays or disruptions that result from a vessel accident. What’s the reason for it? Why are vessel accidents increasing? Here’s what you need to know.

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