article thumbnail

July 2022 Global Manufacturing Indices Indicating Declining Momentum

Supply Chain Matters

The top three regions exhibiting PMI growth were that of India, Australia and the Netherlands. Commenting on the July report, Chris Williamson, Chief Business Economist at S&P Global indicated in-part: “ With the exception of pandemic lockdown periods, July saw US manufacturers report the toughest business conditions since 2009.

article thumbnail

'Brexit Is Scaring Businesses to Death': Two Experts Debate the Data

Supply Chain Brain

David Blanchflower , professor of economics at Dartmouth College and member of the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee from June 2006 to May 2009: The fallout from the disastrous Brexit vote and the even more calamitous negotiations are scaring businesses to death, and continuing apace. Airbus closing plants in the U.K.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

This Week in Logistics News (July 4-8, 2016)

Talking Logistics

Global trade volumes fell for the first time since 2009 by 1.7 This year’s winner of Amazon’s robot picking challenge, The Netherlands’ TU Delft, was over three times faster at picking objects than last year’s champion (100 per hour versus 30). percent from 3 percent.

article thumbnail

Edgar Beers from Vanderlande named as Supply Chain Professional 2015

Supply Chain Movement

Although I live in The Netherlands, I don’t work here,” he said. 2009 John van Dongen, Director Demand Flow Planning & Scheduling Europe, Electrolux Home Products. “Use your head, your hands and your heart,” advised Van Weesep. This title has generated lots of interaction for me abroad.”. Previous winners.

article thumbnail

This Week in Logistics News (May 16-20, 2016)

Talking Logistics

Five years later in 2009, I also predicted that a leading logistics service provider would acquire a leading logistics software company. Back in May 2004, I wrote a post titled, “What If UPS Acquires Manhattan Associates?” That prediction never came true.

article thumbnail

Towards Causal Artificial Intelligence

Enterra Insights

For example, Vigen shows that, between 1999 and 2009, there was a strong correlation between U.S. Taco Cohen , a machine learning research scientist at Qualcomm Research Netherlands, observes, “At its core, science is all about finding causal relations. avoided importing crude oil from Norway.

article thumbnail

Guest post: Sustainable monitoring in supply chains: it’s time for companies to reconnect with their stakeholders.

EcoVadis

In the last two decades companies have been required to assure that good environmental and social performance were achieved across their supply chains (MIT, 2009). Stichting Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Available at: www.mitsmr-ezine.com/busofsustainability/2009. ISO14001, OHSAS18001).