GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The state of the trucking market in 2021 is uncertain, filled with risk, and continues to evolve, making logistics management challenging.? through 2021, but total retail sales will grow 7.9%. High freight volumes across all industries in the trucking market are expected to continue into 2022.? That’s an astonishing $933.30

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ivalua

MAY 23, 2022

May 23, 2022 – Ivalua, a leading provider of Spend Management Cloud solutions, announced the winners of its Carbon Footprint Innovation Cup at its marquee annual event, Ivalua NOW 2022 in Washington D.C. The innovations they developed demonstrate how digitally enabled smart procurement can contribute to a more sustainable future.”.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MARCH 14, 2023

Logistics Procurement – Performance Management by LSCMS Shippers’ Council Shortly after the outset of COVID, in early 2020, supply chains have been disrupted across the globe. Freight procurement is the mainstay of any supply chain professional but price is not the be-all and end-all.

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CHAINalytics

MARCH 1, 2022

Because of fourth quarter volume surges, ongoing congestion at ports around the world, and 2021’s (and first quarter 2022’s) limited container availability, demand has outpaced available capacity. Predictably, short-term capacity remains at a premium. This is the second post in a three-part series.

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Ware2Go

JANUARY 10, 2022

Should you change your supply chain procurement strategy in light of continuing supply chain disruptions? The 2021 holiday shopping season was characterized by high freight rates, elevated lead times , and over-crowded warehouses. Supply chain procurement strategies had long been favoring Just in Time procurement.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 20, 2022

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group via its affiliated Supply Chain Matters blog shares a mid-year assessment of previously published 2022 predictions for industry supply chains published at the beginning of 2022. percent in 2021. percent in 2021. economy in 2022 have been ratcheted down to just over 2 percent.

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Resilinc

JANUARY 31, 2023

Resilinc has announced the top five moving factors that shaped the markets in 2022 for the commodities tracked by Resilinc’s CommodityWatchAI. 1 Manufacturing Disruptions The biggest news in CommodityWatch AI ’s 2022 data is that Higher Consumption played a much smaller role in 2022 than it did in 2021.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 18, 2023

In the spring of 2022, Asia/US ocean container rates resumed pre-pandemic levels and congestion eased in November 2022 into California ports. The peak disruption was in December 2021. In the face of variability, this is two-to-six weeks too long to make allocation or procurement decisions. Shift in cycles.

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Freightos

JANUARY 15, 2024

This is a significant shift from late 2021, when 93% faced serious disruptions. This ensured that today’s partial blockage of the Suez Canal, while disruptive, is still far less impactful than its far more meme-worthy 2021 relative in which the Evergiven blocked the canal.

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LevaData

JANUARY 25, 2023

In 2023, burnout continues to be a hot topic for supply chain and procurement professionals. This has caused industry leaders to ask, What is the real answer to procurement burnout? Since the pandemic, several industry leaders have shared their tips and tricks for alleviating procurement burnout. Their suggestions?

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QAD

JANUARY 11, 2022

But two of our senior experts wanted to weigh in by sharing their 2022 predictions in VMblog’s 14 th annual predictions series. It’s understandable that the current state of global supply chains would be foremost in everyone’s 2022 predictions. So, let’s break these predictions down. Tightening Supplier Relationships.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

DECEMBER 28, 2021

2021 has been a year of transition. Digital transformation emerges as a key trend throughout 2021, with a large drive from across all industries towards the ERP and Cloud Computing spaces. Survey 2021 expressing a healthy return to pre-pandemic trading conditions. African industries bouncing back.

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QAD

JANUARY 24, 2023

It is no secret that procurement executives are constantly seeking innovative ways to maximize efficiency and address unexpected supply disruptions. However, procurement is evolving into much more than the most cost effective option since the cheapest option often involves real world atrocities like child and forced labor.

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Shipsta

JANUARY 18, 2022

Freight procurement threw some big surprises at us in 2021. From the blockage in the Suez Canal to dramatic freight shortages throughout the year – it certainly kept us all on our toes.

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Proxima

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Many things are currently making procurement prominent, but not all of them will have a longer-term impact. However, 2022 will be the year when the function we have grown up with and the roles it performs will deliberately start to break itself up! At the moment, this is procurement’s time. Yogi Berra. You are mortal.

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Synovos

AUGUST 9, 2023

RS Integrated Supply’s Costanza Campi to speak at World Procurement Excellence Summit WARRINGTON, UK / RADNOR, PA 8 AUGUST 2023 – Costanza Campi, Senior Vice President of Global Procurement for RS Integrated Supply, has been selected to present at the upcoming World Procurement Excellence Summit in Cologne, Germany.

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The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

He has extensive experience in the industrial supply chain and distribution space, as he was recognized as a Supply Chain Pros to Know by Supply and Demand Chain Executive in 2021, 2022, & 2023. This helps organizations reduce risk and tail spend, optimize working capital, and ensure production uptime to meet customer needs.

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NC State SCRC

MAY 30, 2022

The report was published in the last month, and reflects some of the increasing challenges and disparities that exist between procurement and supply chain executives. One of the problems that often emerges in organizations is not only misalignment between procurement and supply chain, but also between senior executives and their managers.

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Elementum

JUNE 30, 2022

Supply Chain Market Report – July 2022 This edition will cover: The signs of looming stagflation How executives can prepare their supply chains The imminent problem of staffing shortages The latest use of drones in supply chain Notable changes in the leadership ranks. Javier Echevarria has joined Ingredion as their Chief Procurement Officer.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

Source: IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Supply Chain 2022 Predictions — APEJ Implications. IDC’s March 2022 Future Enterprise Resiliency & Spending Survey showed that almost 50% of finance organizations are prioritizing consistent ESG practices and/or policies when considering industry ecosystem design and partners.

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Synovos

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Importance of Supplier Relationships in Indirect Procurement Challenging times call for closer relationships between organizations and their MRO suppliers Strong and successful indirect procurement strategies depend on strong and successful supplier relationships. Indirect procurement can be somewhat hidden, though.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 4, 2023

I provided a glimpse of the study content in an article in October that lists the top 20 warehouse automation suppliers , based on ARC’s estimates of 2021 revenues. In fact, retail and other verticals such as logistics providers (parcel) experienced rapid growth from 2019 – 2021. percent four-year CAGR.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 11, 2022

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group shares a Part Three commentary addressing our mid-year assessment of published 2022 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains made available at the beginning of 2022, and specifically addressing supply chain cost inflation implications. We referenced legislative efforts such as the U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 6, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights March and Q1-2022 global manufacturing and supply chain indices, with the data indicating added headwinds and challenges in the months to come. Source: JP Morgan and S&P Global, March 2022. percentage points below the December 2021 value. The average PMI value for Q1-2022 was 53.3,

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Proxima

JULY 4, 2022

To top this off, we are finalists in three categories at this year’s MCA Awards and for CIP’s Procurement Consultancy Project of the Year. These wins are all down to the committed people who work at Proxima, and we’re incredibly proud to look back at all we have achieved in 2022 so far. Work at an award winning company.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Held Last November 11, 2021. His experience covers the full Logistics spectrum, from raw material procurement to physical distribution and eventually Customer Service and care, with a strong grounding in Quality and Six Sigma. Prepare for Anything: Supply Chain and Ecosystem Predictions for 2022 and beyond….

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 25, 2022

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group shares a Part Two commentary addressing our mid-year assessment of previously published 2022 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains published at the beginning of 2022. In 2021, global economists and think tanks were coming to a consensus that a long-term decoupling between the U.S.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 9, 2023

With the rise of logistics and procurement constraints, an analysis of only manufacturing does not yield a feasible plan. MRP Alone Is Not Sufficient for Procurement. Procurement planning inside of lead time is not sufficient. Procurement planning inside of lead time is not sufficient. So, What Have I Learned? The reason?

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Unleashed

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Whether 2021 will see a return to previous growth trends (2.7% Here are three key medical device manufacturing challenges that will affect the industry in 2021. Regulations and Medical Device Manufacturing in 2021. Accurate serial number tracking becomes increasingly relevant for medical manufacturers in 2021.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 18, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights reports that Rivian Automotive fell short of its 2022 vehicle production goal and that several top executives have departed the company, including the company’s purchasing head. The EV auto maker’s original commitment at the start of 2022 was to produce 50,000 vehicles, but that was cut at mid-year.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The supply chain investments of the last decade focused on improving black & white processes–order-to-cash and procure-to-pay. Spring 2020-February 2021. March 2021-August 2021. September 2021-March 2022. March 2022-Onward. My view is that we are in phase 3 of the pandemic. My prediction?

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 3, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights February global manufacturing and supply chain indices and challenges relative to product demand and supply network imbalance levels in the first quarter of 2022. value reported at the end of December 2021. The February 2022 Manufacturing ISM© Report on Business reported a value of 58.6,

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 1, 2022

To understand this point, I contrast the results of the Gartner Top 25 Award Winners published in 2022 (last week) against their peer group from 2012 to 2021. In contrast, 19% have an operating margin less than a comparative company for 2012-2021. Comparison of Business Results to Peer Group of the 2022 Gartner Top 25 Winners.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 10, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog continues with our annual listing of our most read blog commentaries that were published and of keen interest to our readers during the year 2021. The years of 2020 and 2021 presented unprecedented pandemic and other related challenges to industry and global supply chains. October 8, 2021.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 6, 2023

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights of both December 2022 and full year reported global PMI indices that at the close of 2022 present a far different picture from the start of the year. Morgan Manufacturing PMI® which began 2022 at an expansion value of 54.2, Sources; S&P Global and ISM, 2022. has fallen 5.6

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Schneider Electric and EcoVadis Christophe Quiquempoix, VP of Sustainable Procurement at Schneider Electric shared his insights during a panel discussion at EcoVadis Sustain Conference 2023. The project was officially launched in 2021 and by January 2022, 100 suppliers had declared their carbon footprint.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 25, 2022

The Chief Executive of TSMC , the globe’s largest contract semiconductor design and production operator indicated last week that the global semiconductor shortage is likely to extend throughout 2022 and possibly into 2023. Occupational Safety and Health Administration ( OSHA ) about its warehouses in 2021.The All rights reserved. .

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