Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 31, 2022

The US GDP in 2021 grew at an unexpected rate of 5.7% A container from Shanghai to Long Beach was 56 days in 2020 and increased to 80 days in 2021. Overall lead times from North America to Asia took 17 days longer than from Asia to North America, or 25% longer. Source E2open Shipping Index).

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The US GDP in 2021 grew at an unexpected rate of 5.7% A container from Shanghai to Long Beach was 56 days in 2020 and increased to 80 days in 2021. Overall lead times from North America to Asia took 17 days longer than from Asia to North America, or 25% longer. Source E2open Shipping Index).

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Freightos

DECEMBER 19, 2023

18th, 2023, Source: Marinetraffic Since mid-November multiple ships have been attacked in the Red Sea by Houthi forces in Yemen. The Suez Canal is the shortest route for container traffic from Asia to the Mediterranean and Europe, and is also used for some volumes from the Far East or Southern Asia to North America.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 31, 2022

Rivian acquired the former Mitsubishi Motors automotive assembly production facility in Normal, Illinois which began production operations in September of 2021. As noted in our January update, the manufacturer announced the news that the Chief Operating Officer had departed the company in December 2021. Thus far, $13.7

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

In 2021, 87% of Americans were negatively impacted by the supply chain. In Fortune 500 earnings calls for Q3 of 2021, “supply chain” mentions were up 412% from Q3 in 2020. 28% of global retailers have tried to find alternative sourcing options due to supply chain issues (RetailNext, 2020). Source: Consultancy.UK.

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ivalua

JANUARY 18, 2022

Redwood City, CA January 18, 2021 – Ivalua, a leading provider of global Spend Management Cloud solutions , and Optis Consulting , a trusted implementation partner, today announced that Parkland Corporation has deployed Ivalua’s Source-to-Pay suite. We are excited to celebrate our deployment of another leading brand in Canada.

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Synovos

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

From balancing costs to reliability, sourcing the right PPE to developing maintenance strategies, data on total cost of ownership to evidence of Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG), their concerns represent both longstanding issues and newer ones. “I I have learned a lot about the challenges they face.” The solution?

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 8, 2022

Chipotle Mexican Grill says its goal to source and sell chicken that’s certified as humanely raised has been delayed because its suppliers weren’t able to make the necessary changes without disrupting supply. Chipotle had planned to sell all third-party certified humane chicken by the end of 2021.

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

We are chasing around North America trying to find other suppliers—at much higher rates,” the CEO of an Edmonton food manufacturer told the CBC. The vulnerability of these three regions highlights the complexity of factoring climate change into sourcing decisions. If so, when?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 29, 2021

They also have 20 sourcing locations across North America from which they can ship make to stock products. The sourcing centers are key to just-in-time, same-day, next-day deliveries. The sourcing centers shipped over 130,000,000 pounds of product last year. The company needs a very complete product line.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Vice President, North America Procurement. He has been in Procurement for a dozen years and spent the majority of his career in Banking at RBC in Canada. During his tenure at RBC, Francois lead the IT Sourcing Team and manage the implementation of their Sourcing to Pay systems.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

In 2021, the company eliminated a prior offer of free delivery for Whole Foods Market shoppers, tacking on a $9.95 The startup procured $400 million in a Series E financing round, led by One Madison Group and JS Capitol , that includes Walmart and existing investing partner SoftBank Vision Fund 1 in January 2022. service fee.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Vice President, North America Procurement. The post Amer 2021 – Manulife – Agenda appeared first on Ivalua. Francois Pilon. Breakout Session. Achieving quick-wins while driving a broad, global digital transformation.

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ivalua

APRIL 11, 2022

Implementation of the project was led by Optis’ expert consulting team with support from Ivalua professional services, allowing TELUS to streamline their procurement processes through a simplified system that manages spend, ensures compliance, provides a rich catalog of products and services, and creates a full digital record of purchases.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 26, 2022

This week, in conjunction with General Motors reporting of Q2-2022 financial performance, the auto maker disclosed that it had secured strategic supply agreements to support one million electric powered vehicles in North America by 2025. or North America presence. Some Broader Context. GM’s Latest Financial Performance.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

West Coast ports, and data related to increased adoption of robotics for North America production needs. As far back as 2021, Supply Chain Matters has highlighted both the near-term tactical and strategic implications of the global wide shortage of semiconductors , particularly on the global automotive industry.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 23, 2022

Canadian Pacific is the sixth-largest North America freight railway, and in December 2021 completed an agreement to acquire U.S. Upwards of 3,000 rail workers reportedly returned to work yesterday to resume rail operations across North America after a breakdown in labor settlement talks occurred last Saturday.

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Locus

JUNE 3, 2022

billion metric tons—the emissions have rebounded in 2021 and 2022. It is worth noting that North America has a much higher emission intensity than sub-Saharan Africa, despite Africa being significantly larger and housing more countries. In 2021, the global atmospheric carbon dioxide levels reached a high of 416.45

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 15, 2022

In a reported effort to cut additional costs and increase needed cash flows, the provider announced intentions to cut upwards of 800 jobs within its North America support teams and eliminate its company operated warehouses. based manufacturing strategy, with a decision to source manufacturing at a CMS provider located in Taiwan.

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HICX Solutions

JULY 26, 2021

Procurement network and intelligence platform providers, Procurement Leaders, hosted a webinar featuring Supply Chain and Procurement experts, Dr. Elouise Epstein , Partner at Kearney , and Costas Xyloyiannis , CEO at HICX. Digital technologies drive path to strategic procurement. An exciting time for Procurement.

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SCMDOJO

MAY 13, 2022

The Suez Canal, one of the most important waterways in the world, was accidentally blocked by MV Ever Given between March 23rd and 29th 2021. Complications throughout the system have affected transshipment operations with increased rollovers because of blank sailings heavily impacting global transshipment ports in 2022 when compared to 2021.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 7, 2020

Supply chains will be able to procure, source, manufacture and handle logistics across a broad array of players including small to medium businesses. “Quantum computing can crunch through numerous variables and factors, from more sources, across more scenarios, faster and with greater accuracy than ever. ” 4. .

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 14, 2022

San Francisco -based Onera provides retail technology that connects inventory across siloed systems and transforms them into a single, real-time source of inventory status. This column featured details of that acquisition in a November 2021 update. billion acquisition in December of 2021 in an all-cash tender offer.

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BlueYonder

MAY 14, 2021

Rising demand in North America and Europe led to increased freight moving on the Suez and Pacific routes, which meant more full containers inbound versus outbound, leading to global container shortages. Chart Source: Freightwaves). There will be no shortages of logistics reverberations throughout 2021.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 16, 2023

In this update, we note the approval of a significant merger involving North America rail service and an additional development involving Amazon and Rivian Automotive related to an ongoing EV parcel van delivery contract.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 29, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights this week’s announcement from athletic footwear designer and manufacturer New Balance of the grand opening of this company’s fifth production facility in North America. The supply constraints have certainly impacted our business, but we were still able to grow over 30 percent in 2021.”

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Logility

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

17, 2021 – Logility, Inc., McCain has shown impressive leadership as she has lead supply chain and customer experience at Berry Global, and now has moved into a business lead role as vice president, healthcare, North America, for the Consumer Packaging International Division. ATLANTA – Sept.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 18, 2022

Enterprise Cloud software provider SAP SE conducted its 2022 North America Sapphire Now customer conference last week. As what occurred in 2020 and 2021, select conference sessions were livestreamed online, which helped to attract a broader global audience of viewers. .

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 13, 2022

It includes Transporeon Execution Solutions , procurement, and market intelligence offerings along with Sixfold, a real-time visibility capability aggregating live data from supply chains across Europe leveraging AI based technology. The company’s technology aims to provide a holistic approach to transport management.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 3, 2022

for February , with the authors indicating that this value: “ reflected an easing in global supply chain pressures since December 2021, even though they remain at historically elevated levels ” The February index value compares to the 4.25 value reported at the end of December 2021. This index stood at $9,304 at the end of 2021.

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SupplyShift

MARCH 15, 2022

With all of the supply chain disruptions and procurement challenges regarding sourcing in 2021, it’s impossible to reach sustainability goals alone. The Benefits of Collaboration. This is why collaboration with suppliers is imperative. Collaboration helps build trust and transparency, and that can lead to innovation.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 2, 2023

In contrast, performance levels related to North America , Europe and South America were noted as remaining weak, on average, compared to Asia. Report authors however, qualified that the domestic market demand was the prime source of activity growth. for February compared to January’s value of 47.4.

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SupplyShift

MARCH 15, 2022

The Benefits of Collaboration With all of the supply chain disruptions and procurement challenges regarding sourcing in 2021, it’s impossible to reach sustainability goals alone. This is why collaboration with suppliers is imperative. Collaboration helps build trust and transparency, and that can lead to innovation.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 7, 2022

This index stood at $9,304 at the end of 2021. Data published at the end of March indicates that for movement of ocean container shipping transit from Asia to North America , the average time had declined to 108 days, upwards of 15.4 The value of this index as of the end of March was $8152.09 per 40-foot container.

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SupplyShift

JUNE 2, 2021

The recent uptick of sustainability bonds from global companies like Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and most recently Amazon sends a strong market signal that focus on corporate Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) is no longer just a trend – it’s the new business imperative. At the same time, pressure from NGOs was on the rise.

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SupplyShift

JUNE 2, 2021

The recent uptick of sustainability bonds from global companies like Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and most recently Amazon sends a strong market signal that focus on corporate Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) is no longer just a trend – it’s the new business imperative. At the same time, pressure from NGOs was on the rise.

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Unleashed

AUGUST 28, 2022

Specific aspects of managing inventory include procurement, storage, and utilisation tracking. In 2021, the global demand value in North America for spare parts and consumables relating to maintenance and operations reached over USD 150 billion. Why is spare parts inventory management so important?

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