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July 2022 Global Manufacturing Indices Indicating Declining Momentum

Supply Chain Matters

Of added concern, manufacturing powerhouses of France, Germany, Spain and Italy each had contraction level PMI values. New orders are already falling at a pace which, excluding pandemic lockdown months, is the sharpest since the debt crisis in 2012, with worse likely to come.”. .

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Does Geography Matter in the Digital Age?

Enterra Insights

The web was the ‘death of distance,’ a concept popularized in 1997 by Frances Cairncross’s book of the same title.”[3] 6] Peter Draper, “ The shifting geography of global value chains: Implications for developing countries and trade policy ,” Vox, 16 July 2012. first appeared on Enterra Solutions.

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Amazon uses robots to speed warehouse operations

Operations and Supply Chain Management

PHOTO: JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Amazon is calling on the robots to help speed up its warehouse operations. The company’s automation expansion following its 2012 acquisition of Kiva Systems jumpstarted interest in robotics across the sector. The rollout will likely reverberate beyond Amazon’s own sites. – Bob

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Sustainability in Logistics: Shippers Step up Initiatives to Combat 3 Obstacles

GlobalTranz

In France, officials in the Ministry of Education implemented a program to reclaim used toner cartridges, which were then refilled and reused within the educational system. In fact, this simple reporting resulted in a 7 percent decrease in the use of water resources by Bayer in 2012. By 2014, the decrease had risen to 15 percent.

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The secret to distance selling success

DELMIA Quintiq

per person online, a 2012 statistic shows their neighbours in Britain and France are spending far more at €108 and €76 per person respectively. Consulting firm Ernst & Young estimates the German e-commerce market share to be about 0.3 While Germans spent on average €12.40 Switzerland is also way ahead at €87 per person.

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Global Manufacturing Activity Levels Stabilize in February

Supply Chain Matters

Countries experiencing sequential monthly lows were noted as France, Austria and Germany , the latter recording a 46.3 China’s official PMI index compiled by country’s Statistics Bureau and weighted toward state-owned manufacturers recorded its highest reading since April 2012 at a reading of 52.6 United States Two indices of U.S.

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GrandVision: “We are changing completely as we become demand driven”

Supply Chain Movement

Rhiannon Davies, joined in 2012 to implement the new supply chain, bring about global compliance and leverage potential efficiencies to drive the strongest conditions and service to customers. “In Grandvision has grand plans. GrandVision has around 6,100 stores in 44 countries which are visited by over 150 million customers annually.