Supply Chain View from the Field

JANUARY 13, 2015

I sure called this one right…Globalization linked with increasing labor costs in countries such as China, as well as fuel costs and regulatory shifts, are driving a dramatic impact on where companies source, where they produce, and the complexity of processes required to sell to the customer. This is likely to continue.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 31, 2023

Background In a number of prior Supply Chain Matters blog commentaries, we have highlighted for readers how global smartphone and consumer electronics provider Apple has behind the scenes been influencing key contract manufacturing and component suppliers to begin to establish alternative sourcing of materials and production beyond China.

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Arena Solutions

MARCH 9, 2023

Since 2015, PTC has hosted LiveWorx , a global forum that brings together manufacturing executives, engineers, product designers, quality leaders, supply chain partners, and other like-minded individuals who are focused on harnessing disruptive technologies to manage uncertainty and transform their business.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Source: Dictionary.com. How will the policy be executed? Today, there is not a well-defined template on how to build and operate a supply chain defined by customer policy and segmentation strategy. My journey to understand SanDisk started in June 2015. I had the opportunity to visit with the SanDisk team in July 2015.

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Elementum

JULY 12, 2016

growth of shipments in 2015, according to International Data Corporation (IDC). Its growth in 2015, however, slowed to 3 percent. In August 2015, the company began making its smartphones in Andra Pradesh through Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn. Only China has more smartphone users, but growth is slowing.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Frey, a Senior Fellow in the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution observes, “The first release of race-ethnic statistics from the 2020 census makes plain that America’s ‘diversity explosion’ is continuing, albeit in the context of slower national growth, especially among the youth. ”[3].

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Resilinc

JULY 5, 2022

After years of negotiation, the TPP was signed by the President Obama in 2015—but never ratified (or rejected) by Congress. He writes in Foreign Policy that the United States’ partners in IPEF impose higher tariffs on U.S. Many in U.S. goods that the U.S. imposes on theirs, so the U.S.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In 2015, I worked with a manufacturer of men’s underwear. (My These included cloud-based computing, in-memory processing, parallel computation, and open-source analytics. Open Source Analytics: A set of languages, techniques and tactics to enable parallel processing, schema on read, and data insights. Open Source analytics.

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Savant Events

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Countries that have passed relevant legislation include England and Wales via the Modern Slavery Act 2015, which has ‘transparency in supply chains’ that also extend to Northern Ireland and Scotland; and the Health and Care Act 2022 section 81.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 14, 2016

The network senses, translates, and orchestrates market changes (buy- and sell-side markets) bidirectionally with near real-time data to align sell, deliver, make and sourcing organizations outside-in. The focus is on channel data: price; inventory positions; and policies. Order Policy. Market Drivers. Cost-to-Serve.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

” Analysts from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) add, “Over the past decade, public and private sources have dedicated impressive amounts of energy and resources to digital agriculture in developing countries.”[2] 8] Maamar Ferkoun, “ Cloud computing helps agriculture industry grow ,” IBM, 23 January 2015.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Data source: eMarketer. And based on Placer Lab’s data , the investment looks promising, with monthly 2021 monthly in-store visits up across the board in comparison to 2019: Image source: Placer.ai. Image source: Bring Me the News. eCommerce Purchases and “The New Normal” Retail Categories. Trust Google to have the answer.

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ModusLink Corporation

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Business practices ought to become increasingly transparent therefore implementing green policy can generate profits, provide a positive social impact, and reduce environmental impact. Bhattacharjee, 2015). Any steps taken to become greener will favor companies in visibility, credibility, and develop a leadership reputation.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

To illustrate the broader questions involved, consider the research conducted by Mayurpankhi Barooah and Seung Hwan Shin at MIT ( Optimal Multi-Temperature Delivery Frequency for Small Format Stores , June 2015).

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Author Michael Blanding ( @michaelblanding ) reports on the work of two researchers, Mercedes Delgado, professor at Copenhagen Business School, and Karen Mills, a Harvard Business School Senior Fellow, and how they unearthed a source of better jobs hidden in plain sight. He writes, “Call it the supply chain economy.”

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 28, 2021

As the source of these materials becomes more difficult to obtain, procuring the resources necessary to produce products will a serious challenge. Producing using renewable energy sources such as Solar Power reinforces a self-sustaining production process.” ” Element 2. Procurement. Most raw materials are finite resources.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 5, 2015

economic and innovation policies.” Launched – 1/09/2015. On January 9, 2015, the president announced the launch of the latest regional manufacturing innovation hubs that will be led by the University of Tennessee. The NNMI is the infrastructure for the innovation network. Website: [link]. Location: Knoxville, TN.

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Material Handling & Logistics

JANUARY 7, 2019

Light vehicle sales have declined from the robust pace of 2015-16, but the council predicts they will remain elevated at 17.1 Provided that access to export markets remains open to our producers, expanding global demand will be met by shale-advantaged chemistry sourced from the U.S.”. million in 2018 and 16.8 million in 2019.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 7, 2018

Back in 2015, Nestlé committed itself to “be an industry leader in determining where the seafood [in its supply chain] is coming from and demanding it is Sourced Responsibly.” 4] “ Responsible Sourcing of Seafood – Thailand Action plan 2015-2016. ” The fishing industry case study. 8] Ibid.

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EcoVadis

OCTOBER 12, 2018

In 2015, the world got one step closer to a better future when 193 countries committed to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a framework for addressing the global community’s most critical economic, social and environmental challenges. Prioritize robust policies and programs. Benefit from global expertise.

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TMC

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

For instance, when a disaster such as a hurricane, a labor strike, or a bankruptcy disables key suppliers, quick-moving enterprises are able to lock in alternative sources of supply before their rivals. There is growing interest in incorporating weather forecast data from a variety of sources into supply chain planning. Robinson.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 29, 2017

As I wrote two years ago in my supply chain and logistics predictions for 2015 : Historically, Supply Chain Design was an exercise companies undertook at most once a year, or when a significant change occurred in their supply chain, such as an acquisition. Source: LLamasoft.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Agreement on this point is strong, yet details like how to pay for infrastructure and trade policy seem to have no consensus whatsoever. President Obama signed the FAST Act into law in December 2015, and it provides a reliable source of federal transportation funding for five years. President Carter changes trucking forever.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Well, my big audacious prediction for 2015 did not come true. How will transportation, inventory, and sourcing policy decisions change in light of this cheap oil environment? Like oil prices, interest rates impact supply chain policies and decisions, especially with regards to inventory.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 19, 2015

Benchmarking is a measurement of the quality of an organization’s policies, products, programs or strategies against standard measurements. In most ‘benchmarking activities’, self-reported data is the most common source. If you would like to participate in 2015, let us know. Business Dictionary.com.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Over the period of 2009-2015, only 88% of companies made improvement on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. Companies passing these two tests are then analyzed against the performance factors for 2009-2015: Growth. Orbit Chart of VTech for the Period of 2006-2015 at the Intersection of Operating Margin and Inventory Turns .

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Supply Chain Movement

JULY 25, 2014

Alternatively they are sourced from contract manufacturers or Astellas sites outside EMEA. Attractive remuneration, which include a 13th month, excellent pension policy, performance bonus, lease car policy, 25 Holidays + 13 so called ADV Days, if applicable an attractive relocation package and more….

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crisp

APRIL 21, 2023

Purely Elizabeth’s VP of Sourcing & Sustainability Christin Powers spoke with Crisp about how in 2015, the then start-up used the B Lab assessment as a tool to develop processes and best practices to help build the business – knowing that they wanted to uphold the most sustainable, and ethical policies possible. “We

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Walmart Supply Chain and Transportation Trends for 2015. Source: “Sustainability and Green Initiatives in Transportation & Logistics,” Jason Mathers, EDF, Ryder Innovate 2014. Inventory (inventory management policies and practices, optimizing inventory flow). Resources/Talent (people development and training).

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

“For the past few decades,” they write, “the scramble for competitive advantage in manufacturing has largely revolved around finding new and abundant sources of low-cost labor. ” With the right policies and investments, increased U.S. 2] Boston Consulting Group analysts, Harold L. manufacturing can move from hype to hope.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MAY 28, 2022

These are rooted in a changing business and competitor environment, altering consumer behavior, regulators’ policy decisions and a shifting geopolitical global power balance. Source: US Census Bureau. USD 2bn in annual VC funding) from 2015-2019. On the other hand, there are longer-term megatrends shaping supply chains.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Will the procurement policy of your American company differ compared with your Italian competitor, and if so, how? A written procurement ethics policy remains the starting point for raising and maintaining standards in an organisation. Senior management must endorse the policy and act according to it.

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Logichain Solutions

JULY 30, 2018

Big players in the food industry, like Nestlé, Unilever, Walmart, and Dole, use blockchain to trace their products downstream to the original source but also upstream through the distribution network. coli outbreak at Chipotle in 2015 or the E. coli outbreaks of romaine lettuce in 2017 and 2018. In the case of the second E.

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Logichain Solutions

JULY 30, 2018

Big players in the food industry, like Nestlé, Unilever, Walmart, and Dole, use blockchain to trace their products downstream to the original source but also upstream through the distribution network. coli outbreak at Chipotle in 2015 or the E. coli outbreaks of romaine lettuce in 2017 and 2018. In the case of the second E.

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Logichain Solutions

JULY 30, 2018

Big players in the food industry, like Nestlé, Unilever, Walmart, and Dole, use blockchain to trace their products downstream to the original source but also upstream through the distribution network. coli outbreak at Chipotle in 2015 or the E. coli outbreaks of romaine lettuce in 2017 and 2018. In the case of the second E.

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Logichain Solutions

JULY 30, 2018

Big players in the food industry, like Nestlé, Unilever, Walmart, and Dole, use blockchain to trace their products downstream to the original source but also upstream through the distribution network. coli outbreak at Chipotle in 2015 or the E. coli outbreaks of romaine lettuce in 2017 and 2018. In the case of the second E.

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AFFLINK

MARCH 6, 2017

McDonald’s has new goals that it wants to achieve by 2020, including purchasing sustainable beef and sourcing 100% recycled fiber packaging. When questions arose about the company’s environmental policy, McDonald’s launched “Our Food/Your Questions” series about its food and supply chain.

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