article thumbnail

October Global PMI Reporting-Continued Production Contraction

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters provides a further global supply chain assessment in the highlighting and added insights on reported October 2023 global and regional production and supply chain PMI indices. Global Wide Manufacturing Activity Levels Global manufacturing activity as reported by the J.P. value reported for September.

article thumbnail

November Global PMI Reporting Reflects Some Stabilization

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters provides a further global supply chain assessment in the highlights and added insights on reported November 2023 global and regional production and supply chain PMI indices. Global Wide Manufacturing Activity Levels Global manufacturing activity as reported by the J.P. reported in October.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

This Week in Logistics News (February 27 – March 3, 2017)

Talking Logistics

As reported by Jennifer Smith at the Wall Street Journal: The president of the International Longshoremen’s Association on Monday asked members to hold off on a planned walkout that threatens to disrupt operations at some of the East Coast’s busiest ports. “We It seems I was off by three years. Guess what?

article thumbnail

Behind the Numbers of the SCRC Supply Management Index

NC State SCRC

Yung-Yun’s algorithm scanned tens of thousands of targeted news and company reports to develop the ratings in each category. Secondary data sources are published available databases, reports, websites, and so on. Category strategies are well communicated & drive local purchasing behavior & local supplier relationships.

article thumbnail

Ready For the Next Port Crisis?

Talking Logistics

“This dispute has left a damaging effect on our industry—causing extreme delays and millions in lost sales,” the American Apparel & Footwear Association said, as reported in the WSJ. “If The bottom line: the next port crisis is in the works, and it’s being caused not by labor disputes, but by capacity and productivity constraints.

article thumbnail

This Week in Logistics News (January 9-13, 2017)

Talking Logistics

If Amazon has serious plans of realizing this idea, there’s already a company in the UK called Mole Solutions that has been working on creating “underground freight pipelines” since 2002. Moving on to third-party logistics (3PL) news, UPS announced the purchase of Freightex , a U.K.-based and Europe every day.

article thumbnail

Integrated Business Planning: A New Narrative for an Old Process

Supply Chain Trend

They call for a reinvention of traditional IBP that more fully integrates its governing meetings and reporting into operations, enabling faster decision making, better responsiveness to disruption, and liberation for planners to work on more strategic issues. KEY POINTS. The authors detailed a sequential S&OP cycle around a.