Supply Chain Shaman
APRIL 9, 2021
Yes, companies held more inventory (measured in days of inventory) in 2019 than at the start of the 2007 recession. Average performance in 2016-2019 across twenty-seven manufacturing sectors on inventory turns, Return on Invested Capital and operating margin was worse than in 2012-2015. Sadly, most of it is the wrong inventory.
Supply Chain Shaman
FEBRUARY 14, 2022
Tight coupling of the supply chain forecast to the financial forecast will improve value. Industries carried on average 32 days more inventory in 2020 than in 2007. (I Even when I proved that the process was degrading the forecast by 35-60%, companies still clung to a wrong number. Don’t believe me? Measure it.
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Supply Chain Digest
APRIL 3, 2018
MAPI Nearly Doubles its Forecast of Manufacturing Growth through 2021, with Even the Apparel Sector Seeing Some Goods News
QAD
APRIL 21, 2020
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
The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society
JULY 20, 2020
Time to products restocking, automating repeat purchases could be made simpler by enabling a customer inventory demand to forecast while big data analytics enable real-time focus and simultaneous analysis of diverse data streams generating valuable information for forecasting and planning. 2019), Contributions of Industry 4.0
Enterra Insights
MAY 6, 2020
The grim forecast underscored the magnitude of the shock that the pandemic has inflicted on both advanced and developing economies and the daunting task that policymakers face in containing the fallout.”[2] There have been eight official recessions (including the one that began in December 2007) in the last 50 years. ”[5].
Freight Plus
DECEMBER 19, 2018
With 11 out of 12 months of the year reported, the Cass report indicates that the realized contract pricing forecast for 2018 of 6 – 12% is “essentially in the books.”. Costello explained his outlook for 2019 in a recent conference call hosted by investment firm Stifel earlier this year. annually in November but was down 0.5%
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