Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights and added perspectives on reported November 2022 global manufacturing PMI and supply chain activity indices. Global business optimism was reported as being at one of its lowest level since the Covid-19 pandemic began in early 2020. manufacturing performance since June 2020.

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Manufacturing Procurement Global Modeling Optimal Sourcing 59

Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 6, 2023

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights of both December 2022 and full year reported global PMI indices that at the close of 2022 present a far different picture from the start of the year. reportedly signaling the fastest decline in operating conditions since May of 2020, which is equivalent to the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Supply Chain Matters provides monthly highlight commentary and perspectives on published October 2022 global manufacturing PMI and supply chain activity indices. Once more, the Covid recovery increases that began in March/April of 2020 are now no longer.(Figure Figure below). The October reported value of 49.4

Manufacturing Procurement 52

Manufacturing Procurement Report Global Manufacturing 52

NC State SCRC

MAY 27, 2021

During this testimony, I shared some of the insights I developed working with the Joint Acquisition Task Force as a pro bono consultant, during March – June 2020, during the throes of the PPE and healthcare supply shortages. The majority of the people working within it were inventory logisticians, not supply chain logisticians.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Will the supply chain ever catch a break? With every link of the supply chain impacting businesses both large and small, keeping up with the globally disrupted supply chain evolution is a recipe for whiplash. Raw Material Shortages Are Affecting a Challenged Supply Chain.

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Supply Chain Movement

MARCH 12, 2015

Unilever’s corporate vision – “to double the size of the business, whilst reducing our environmental footprint and increasing our positive social impact” – is top of mind, bordering on evangelical, for the company’s supply chain in Turkey. Q: What is your responsibility regarding the supply chain?

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 4, 2023

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights of March and Q1- 2023 reported global and regional PMI indices which reinforce a state of stabilization within global supply chain networks. in March, the fifth consecutive month of contraction and noted as the lowest value since 2020. and January value of 48.8. in February.

Manufacturing Procurement 52

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 5, 2023

Supply Chain Matters provides our monthly highlights commentary reflecting on May 2023 reported global and regional PMI indices. Once again, the numbers signal a state of stabilization within global supply chain networks. The reported value of 49.6 was unchanged as that of April as well as March.

Manufacturing Procurement 52

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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). Prior to the arrival of COVID-19 in the United States in February 2020, the SNS’s medical assets amounted to approximately $8 billion.

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