Resilinc

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Mike Beckham, CEO of bottle and travel mug manufacturer Simple Modern, told the Wall Street Journal that a major Chinese supplier in Quzhou City had been forced to cut its workweek to four days and trim its electricity usage by a third. The world’s largest exporter since 2009, Chinese producers shipped $2.5 year-on-year in August.

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Elementum

OCTOBER 5, 2015

We take a look at how new vehicles are changing the manufacturing game. With its new gigafactory centralizing the manufacturing process, Tesla Motors is one of the largest automotive employer in California. Source: SupplyChain247. Source: TheVerge. Source: PC-Tablet. Source: Auto News. Tesla’s Model X SUV.

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NC State SCRC

JUNE 11, 2023

To tackle this scale and complexity of this challenge, we were introduced to a network of state acquisition officials through the National Association of State Procurement Officers (NASPO). disaster management is usually classified into the phases of (1) mitigation, (2) preparedness, (3) response, and (4) recovery (FEMA, 2019).

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Enterra Insights

MAY 6, 2020

Arntzen, the former executive director of the supply chain management program at MIT, recently republished an article he penned 2009, during the Great Recession. Demand has been ravaged, there have been extensive disruptions to manufacturing supply chains, and a financial crisis is already underway.”

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BlueYonder

APRIL 13, 2020

The housing bubble pop and the subsequent recession in 2008/2009 caused a demand-side slowdown that was novel for most folks, but retail spending only slowed by about 10% and unemployment topped out around 8.5%. When the dotcom bubble burst in the early 2000s, that was much more a Silicon Valley and Wall Street issue than it was for us.

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C3 Solutions

JULY 28, 2020

From a term that came into use in 2009, the Internet of Things (IoT) has come a long way in 10 years. 2 Cooler heads have prevailed now, though, and Gartner's best guess was in 2019 there would be 14.2 in 2019, for example. in 2014 to just 4 cents in 2019. 6] Future of IoT , Rahul Rishi & Rajeev Saluja, EY, 2019. [7]

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 28, 2023

tractor fleet and sourcing 100 percent renewable energy by 2030, according to the press release. Unseasonably cold weather in Spain slowed down the growing of peppers, leading to Morrisons limiting purchases to two per customer. British supermarkets source peppers exclusively from Spain during the winter months.

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QAD

APRIL 21, 2020

million; global production in 2019 was 88.9 Consider this: in 2019, automotive OEMs announced more than 65,000 layoffs globally, citing technology disruption associated with vehicle electrification and digitalization of the business. According to LMC – globally, production is now forecasted to drop to 76.9 million units.

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ShipBob

AUGUST 3, 2020

It has been forecasted that by 2040, approximately 95% of all purchases will be facilitated by ecommerce. Google now has a market cap of $831 billion, as of 2019. Founded in 2009, Forerunner Ventures specializes in investing in commerce-related businesses including Warby Parker, Away, Jet, Hims, Hers, Glossier, Bonobos, and others.

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EcoVadis

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Launched in 2018 with Shui Mahieu, Sustain gave us an opportunity to embellish our gallery with portraits of responsible purchasing professionals. Global Sourcing Director – Methods, Tools & Responsible Sourcing (Bel Group). Pascale, how did you get into responsible purchasing? Pascale de Felix .

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ShipBob

APRIL 17, 2020

Even during the Great Recession of 2008-2009, ecommerce wasn’t what it is today. Being able to connect with them has helped keep our customers purchasing.” Dana mentioned, “If your audience has purchased from you before and likes you, they will buy from you now to get you cash — especially if they get a discount.”.

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6 River Systems

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In addition to cutting the need for outsourced manufacturing, this move could give the company a leg up on the competition by making it possible to get products in the hands of consumers faster. Additionally, the company’s manufacturing expertise will enable the reduction of production costs.

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IQMS

MARCH 2, 2020

The innovation of our manufacturing customers was spotlighted at the Plastics News Excellence Awards ceremony on February 26, 2020. was named the PN Processor of the Year for 2019 while Diversified Plastics Inc. The manufacturer is also moving all-electric molding machines in both plants. There, Intertech Plastics Inc.

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EC Sourcing Group

MAY 30, 2019

If you want stakeholders to buy in to your procurement process you may need to ask some “dumb” questions. Uber was founded in 2009. If you are a procurement professional, it is certain that you will be asked to source products or services that haven’t existed previously. Why would I recommend this approach?

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Netflix discovered this in 2009 when it released anonymized movie reviews penned by subscribers. Journalist Nicole Laskowski ( @TT_Nicole ) explains, “Synthetic data is information that’s artificially manufactured rather than generated by real-world events. Most data is created by real-world activities.

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Vinculum

JUNE 15, 2020

Warehousing is critical in movement of goods from manufacturer to the end customer. during 2019-2024. Traditionally warehouse was mainly thought as a storage location where items were procured from manufacturer and supplied to retail stores (mainly bulk operation) as end customer buy from stores. billion in 2018.

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