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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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Supply Chain Scope: New Study Shows Rise in US Inventories; California Estimated to Improve Freight Efficiency by 25% in 2030

Arkieva

A new study by the SupplyChainDigest analyzing the main components of working capital: Days Sales Outstanding (DSO), Days Inventory Outstanding (DIO), and Days Payables Outstanding (DPO) revealed an uptick in DIO. New Study Shows a Rise in US Company Inventories. This and much more, in your Monday supply chain briefing from Arkieva.

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Who said supply chains are boring?: Trucks, Technology & Twitter.

Supply Chains Rock

Tuesday, October 27, 2009. Trucks, Technology & Twitter: the Hybrid Truck Convoy and the Truck2020 Study. Trucks, Technology & Twitter: the Hybrid Truck Convoy and the Truck2020 Study On Tuesday, Oct. Trucks, Technology & Twitter: the Hybrid Truck Convoy and the Truck2020 Study On Tuesday, Oct. 1 comment: WFC.

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The Evolving Supply Chain Skills of the Workforce

Material Handling & Logistics

That sounds like an understatement given the fact the one study found the demand for supply chain professionals exceeds supply by six to one, and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the number of jobs in logistics will grow by 26% between 2010 and 2020, according to Crandall. Pero is finding. But wait—there’s more.

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The Cash Flow and Overstock Report: Potential USD$142,000 windfall from tighter stock control

Unleashed

A cautious return to Just in Time Pearman’s comments are echoed by businesses included in the study. Founded in New Zealand in 2009 it was acquired by the UK’s Access Group in November 2020. Founded in New Zealand in 2009 it was acquired by the UK’s Access Group in November 2020.

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Intelligent IBP: A Need for Decision Centricity

Supply Chain Trend

Palmatier and Crum (2002), Coldrick, Ling, and Turner (2003) and Bob Stahl (2009) all assert that S&OP is first and foremost an executive decision-making process. Indeed, one study of 500 managers and executives found that only 2% regularly apply best practices when making decisions.

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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.