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The Potential Impact on Shipping of a Global Recession

Intelligent Audit

In a fairly ominous report sent out this week, Morgan Stanely stated that “Global recession in 2020 is now our base case.”. Shipping, especially global shipping, is uniquely vulnerable to recessions and the effects of the downturn of 2008-2009 are still being felt today. What Happens to Shipping. For example, in 2000 it was 4.

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How the Semiconductor Shortage Could Have Been Averted

QAD

The origin of this most recent semiconductor shortage began in early 2020 as automotive assembly plants and the supply chain shut down due to COVID-19. Very similar to the crisis in 2008-2009 and much to the surprise of industry analysts, automotive demand came back much quicker than expected. In addition to 6.2.1.7,

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Is Your Supply Chain Ready for the Recession?

Enterra Insights

Arntzen, the former executive director of the supply chain management program at MIT, recently republished an article he penned 2009, during the Great Recession. This year’s fall in output would be far more severe than the last recession, when the world economy contracted by less than 1 percent between 2008 and 2009.”

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My Vision for Supply Chain 2020? Deep Integration!

Arkieva

The question was how I imagine the Supply Chain in 2020. The financial crisis of 2008-2009 has given a major push to do more with less. This will ensure we keep moving to the next level as we’re marching to 2020. The post My Vision for Supply Chain 2020? My first thought went to ‘deep integration’.

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Inflation is Back Up – Are you Ready?

Herlitz Inventory Management

Since 2009, when Herlitz Inventory Management was founded, annual inflation has been below 3 percent in the US. source: tradingeconomics.com. Have we lost the knowledge of how to be profitable during periods of high inflation? It hasn’t been lost here at Herlitz Inventory Management! Bush tax cut, 9/11 attacks. War on Terror. Bank crisis.

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Not Just Another Automotive Industry Transformation

LevaData

Take, for example, the 2008 housing crisis. By 2009, the automotive sector was drowning in an $80B crisis—all while continuing to suffer from overcapacity and market saturation. One such company that would benefit from this industry impasse was Tesla, which was close to shuttering the operation amid the 2009 auto crisis.

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Achieving enterprise-wide adoption of supply chain risk management

Resilinc

In the first half of 2020, Resilinc supported its customers in responding proactively to the massive global supply chain disruptions that were occurring. A rigorous and credible ROI analysis is essential to convincing senior leaders to support the change management required to create a mature SCRM capability.