Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 22, 2024

From a supply chain sourcing perspective, a consistent theme in media reporting has been exploration or hints for added Apple supply chain sourcing. Reportedly, Mr. Cook did not provide a timeline for such an investment since the company has no supply chain investment within this country at this time.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 22, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights continued evidence that the U.S. freight and logistics industry continues to mitigate recessionary conditions including the April 2023 Logistics Manager Index reaching its lowest level lowest level in six years and one-half years. freight, logistics and parcel movement industry.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 2, 2022

From 2009 to 2013, Jefferies served as a senior policy advisor to the Chairman of the U.S. Railinc serves as the rail industry’s leading resource for rail data, information technology and information services, and uses one of the world’s largest data networks to track customer shipments. The Logistics of Logistics Podcast.

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Resilinc

OCTOBER 12, 2021

But China is the top concern for supply chain managers. The world’s largest exporter since 2009, Chinese producers shipped $2.5 trillion worth of goods in 2019, the latest year for which data is available from the World Bank. The post Lights out: China’s energy woes hamper supply chains appeared first on Resilinc.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 13, 2015

Robinson Drives Efficiencies for Global Proppant Supply Chains. business inventories flat, inventory-to-sales ratio highest since 2009 (Reuters). Institute for Supply Management data indicated that growth in production, orders, and inventory slowed in January…January 2015 freight shipments were up 5.6

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group through its affiliate, Supply Chain Matters blog unveils part two of a summarized overview of our annual prediction themes for industry and global supply chains for the year 2023 and beyond. Economic and Business Challenges Expected in 2023. Overall Themes for the Year 2023.

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Cathy Roberson

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I missed sending out a post last week and really am sorry about that but…here’s my excuse…I was at the Reverse Logistics Association (RLA) Leadership Conference last week. Thanks for reading Rethinking supply chains! Reverse logistics is a fascinating part of supply chains that tends to get overlooked by many.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 12, 2020

The topic of the meeting was the logistics to launch of the AMR Research Top 25. When Gartner purchased AMR Research in December 2009, the methodology became the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25. Most companies push the improvement of functional measurements that throw the supply chain out of balance. The result?

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Another Friday where I have limited time, so let’s go straight to this week’s supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention: Uber to move freight, target trucking for the long haul (Reuters). Elementum Expands Supply Chain Management Suite with New Inventory App Powered by World’s Product Graph™.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 3, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters commentary, we highlight the latest quantitative data related to global manufacturing PMI activity levels for April. For the first time since 2020, survey data related to Germany indicated that new orders and output slipped into contraction values. China’s Specific Impact. reported for March.

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Resilinc

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

A common challenge for procurement and supply chain professionals is obtaining support from C-level leaders to invest in a robust supply chain risk management (SCRM) program. Coronavirus = new perspective on risk management in supply chains. Perceived high costs and conflicting objectives.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 17, 2023

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group through its affiliate the Supply Chain Matters blog shares select individual prediction snapshots that are included in our annual 2023 predictions for industry and global supply chains research advisory. Background. Prediction Background.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 8, 2016

It was a relatively quiet week for supply chain and logistics news, with robots and weak freight demand dominating the headlines. Honeywell To Acquire Intelligrated, A Leader In Supply Chain And Warehouse Automation Technologies. Global trade volumes fell for the first time since 2009 by 1.7 Woolworths Ltd.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 3, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides commentary relative to July’s global manufacturing PMI indices relative to data indicating declining momentum, and some contraction among specific global regions. Also on the plus side, the July report indicated that survey data signaled the slowest rise in input costs in over seven months.

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Supply Chain Movement

DECEMBER 9, 2014

A growing number of scenes in films and television programmes – and even entire films and TV series – are about logistics and supply chain management, and media productions are going ever deeper into those business roles. This opening scene presents the supply chain, in this case of a bullet, very effectively.

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Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Supply chain management is a career that perfectly matches the skill set of the Millennial generation—if they can be persuaded to pursue it. Pero, department chair, Supply Chain Management, with Michigan State University. Training for the Future. “We A recent study by Deloitte bears out what Speier?Pero Pero is finding.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 26, 2013

Oracle Brings Extreme Supply Chain Performance to Customers with New In-Memory Application. Infor Simplifies Supply Chain Demand Planning. Nulogy and Axios partner to enhance supply-chain traceability. Choice Logistics Named Top 100 Learning Organization. Ryder Reports Second Quarter 2013 Results.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 20, 2016

The title of my presentation is “A Brave New World: How to Achieve Optimum Supply Chain Performance in a World of Drones, Driverless Trucks, 3D Printing, and Other Emerging Technologies.” I used that hypothetical headline to highlight a trend I saw in the industry: the convergence of logistics services, technology, and consulting.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

As the nation turns its attention to reasons for gratitude this Thanksgiving season, we here at UltraShipTMS, the Supply Chain Collaborator blog and the logistics industry in general have more than the usual reasons to be thankful. percent higher than the low in April 2009 during the recession.”

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QAD

JUNE 8, 2021

In looking at this crisis, we actually did learn and even added requirements to industry supply chain standards; however, we were not disciplined enough on our follow through and neglected to implement the appropriate corrective actions. Insufficient deployment of demand down through the supply chain.

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RFgen

JUNE 16, 2016

Starbucks has appointed Hans Melotte to take over Supply Chain Management. Starbucks has named Hans Melotte as their new Supply Chain Chief. Starbucks made waves when they completely revolutionized their supply chain. Starbucks made waves when they completely revolutionized their supply chain.

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RFgen

JUNE 16, 2016

Starbucks has appointed Hans Melotte to take over Supply Chain Management. Starbucks has named Hans Melotte as their new Supply Chain Chief. Starbucks made waves when they completely revolutionized their supply chain. Starbucks made waves when they completely revolutionized their supply chain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 18, 2016

For December 2015, retail sales were the lowest since 2009. Retail was slow to adopt supply chain processes to drive new business models; and as a result, traditional retail redefinition of supply chain processes got caught in the omni-channel hype while Amazon worked its magic to become a market leader.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Editor’s Note: This is our second post in a collaborative blog post series about mobility in manufacturing & logistics along with Catavolt, who helps manufacturing organizations drive operational excellence with mobile apps. IoT makes use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chips that “talk” to each other.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. At Supply Chain Game Changer we believe in sharing experiences and expertise from people in every industry and from across the globe. As such we have introduced our “Seasoned Leadership in Action™” Interview series at Supply Chain Game Changer.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JULY 26, 2013

Logistics and Distribution. Cloud & Big Data. Supply Chain Management. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supply chain management landscape.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Supply Chain Matters provides our commentary and perspectives on published monthly global manufacturing PMI and supply chain activity indices. In our summary and perspectives focused on July 2022 reporting , we opined that July data reinforced a trending toward declining global supply chain production momentum.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 2, 2013

Last week on Talking Logistics , I interviewed Kevin Gavin, VP of Supply Chain Compliance at Descartes Systems Group (a Talking Logistics sponsor) about various cargo security and trade compliance programs, including ISF. appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez. Be Sociable, Share!

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 13, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. At Supply Chain Game Changer we believe in sharing experiences and expertise from people in every industry and from across the globe. I, along with my fellow co-founders, enjoy tackling problems at hand, and have been tackling them together since 2009. Subscribe Here!

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C3 Solutions

JULY 22, 2020

But WMS only really came into its own after the 2009 recession , as the economic rebound prompted the beginning of the e-commerce boom and renewed consumer spending. 8 Real-time data like this allow managers to shift labour to where it's needed and will be most productive, thus helping to keep costs under control.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

In 2008-2009, nine died and hundreds became ill. We are watching the redefinition of the principles of safe and secure supply chains and corporate liability. The investigation into the activity at PCA began in 2009, after the U.S. PCA was a small player in a complex supply chain of big brands. What happened?

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Freightos

MARCH 17, 2019

Not that long ago, they were the only way people listened to music, peaking at 23 million units sold in Q1 2009. There’s one group of people who know the answer better than anyone – the logistics providers and BCOs who literally spend their lives on tenders. Remember iPods? Six years later, that number had dropped to zero.

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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.

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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. As reported for prior monthly data, contraction was concentrated in the consumer, intermediate and investment goods sectors. slipping 0.6 reported for October.

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Supply Chain Movement

MARCH 6, 2013

The success of the third-party logistics industry is evident in the generally high marks given to 3PLs by respondents to a survey as part of the 2013 17th Annual Third Party Logistics Study, which identifies trends and explores how both 3PLs and shippers are using these relationships to improve and enhance their businesses and supply chains.

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The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 8, 2012

The latest Master of Logistics 20 th Annual Study of Transportation and Trends Study reports that in 2011 the highest percent of transportation costs was ground freight at 76.1%, of which US long haul trucking holds a major position at 64.4%. mile in January 2009. The 2009 rates slowly increased to the current 2012 level.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 18, 2018

This article was first published in the July / August 2018 issue of MHD Supply Chain Solutions. It would be tempting to think of reverse logistics as forward logistics done backwards. Reverse logistic isn’t simply a reverse gear. Reverse logistics is therefore worth doing, and worth doing properly.

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