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2020 Requires Big Wings and Feet

Supply Chain Shaman

The budget is not sufficient and is often a detrimental input for supply chain forecasting. Why Is the Financial Forecast Not a Good Proxy for a Supply Chain Forecast? There are many reasons why the budget cannot be used as a supply chain forecast. The supply chain forecast is a rolling forecast.

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COVID-19’s Immediate Impact on the Automotive Supplier Industry

QAD

What’s more, during the great recession of 2007-09, only major automakers like GM and Chrysler got bailouts – this time, many expect suppliers will once again be denied bailouts and be forced into declaring bankruptcy. According to LMC – globally, production is now forecasted to drop to 76.9 from a pre-pandemic forecast of 89.2

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Top Mobile Banking Trends to Watch!

Supply Chain Game Changer

It received payments via phones in 2010 for $2 billion, which is three times more than a year earlier. In the USA, the experience of using mobile banking is more extensive — some banks offered it to customers back in 2007. The increased popularity of mobile payments is eloquently shown by the statistics of the online store eBay.

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Inflation is Back Up – Are you Ready?

Herlitz Inventory Management

Forecast: Core rate 1.4% Bush tax cut, 9/11 attacks. War on Terror. Katrina, Bankruptcy Act. Bernanke became Fed Chair. Bank crisis. Financial crisis. ACA, Dodd-Frank Act. Debt ceiling crisis. Government shutdown. Sequestration. Deflation in oil and gas prices. Core inflation rate 1.7%. Core rate 2.2%. Core rate 2.3%. Impact of COVID.

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Standing on the Frontlines of Logistics Change and Volatility Armed with Tech-driven Resiliency

CH Robinson Transportfolio

March 2007 John F. Gantz, David Reinsel and other researchers at IDC release a white paper titled “ The Expanding Digital Universe: A Forecast of Worldwide Information Growth through 2010 (PDF).” This quarter, we have 177 additional features planned. Varian at UC Berkeley publish “ How Much Information? ”.

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Walmart: 3 Keys to Successful Supply Chain Management any Business Can Follow

GlobalTranz

Riding a rising five-year trend, retail juggernaut Walmart® grossed $476 billion in the fiscal year that ended in January 2014, up from $408 billion in fiscal 2010, according to The Wall Street Journal’s MarketWatch. Walmart has held a place among Gartner’s top 20 supply chains since 2010. Walmart’s Supply Chain Forged Over Decades.

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Weathering the Next Recession

synchrono

The global economic recession that started in 2007/2008 hit the manufacturing sector hard. In 2010, Harvard Business Review said that 17% of the companies they were following in a post-recession study had gone bankrupt, were acquired or went private. Many companies didn’t survive the recession, at least not in their current state.