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China’s 2024 Export Performance is Telling for Potential Tariff Impacts

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters highlights recent data regarding China s reported trade deficit and export trade volumes and the implications to industry supply network strategies in 2025. We pointed to the various implications to either global based, nearshored or domestic supply network sourcing strategies. trillion, an increase of 5.9

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Uh-Oh! Insights On How P&G Failed And What This Means For You

Supply Chain Shaman

At each company, there is a relationship between the metrics of growth, margin, inventory, customer service, and asset strategy. For the purpose of this article, I will use Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) as the proxy metric to discuss asset utilization.) Understanding this relationship requires modeling. (A A Case Study.

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Sourcing and Procurement: One but Not the Same

Precoro

This month, we continue our Procurement Basics series and would like to introduce our readers to yet another set of often misused business terminology. As both sourcing and procurement are related to obtaining supplies for the organization, confusing these two terms is easy. Procurement. What Is Procurement Process?

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Taming the Supply Chain. Will It Ever Be Social?

Supply Chain Shaman

The ends of the supply chain–both in customer and procurement– are fragile. They would ask how social can impact their supply chain source, make and deliver processes. As an analyst that has done this type of prediction for many years, I just find this hard to believe. Charlene wrote the report [link].

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Preparing to Run Supply Chains at the End of the Second Global Economy

Supply Chain Shaman

Supply chain leaders were slow to adopt advances in Big Data Analytics. In parallel, PE/venture capitalists purchased/consolidated network solutions, slashing R&D and delaying investment, reducing industry capabilities. – The Myopic Focus on Cost Reduces Effectiveness. – Technology Evolution Outpaced Adoption.

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E-commerce and the Digital Path to Purchase

Enterra Insights

Retailers have always been curious about the paths consumers take when they decide something needs to be purchased. When the Internet and World Wide Web introduced consumers to online shopping (aka e-commerce), the path to purchase became much more complex. Today the digital path to purchase is growing in importance.

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ZF’s Transition from Lean to Supply Chain Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

ZF transforms those purchased products into over 2,000 products. ZF has been working with a supply chain solutions provider called SupplyOn since 2001. MSCN solutions provide supply chain visibility, network-based applications, and network analytics. ZF’s Digital Supply Chain. Lean cuts inventory out of the supply chain.