Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 12, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters posting we highlight published September 2022 indices of global supply chain volatility ( GSPI ) and US Logistics Index ( LMI ) activity trends along with our view of the implications. In a prior Supply Chain Matters posting, we highlighted both September and Q3-2022 global and regional PMI indices.

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Intelligent Audit

MARCH 23, 2022

“Demand was greater than available inventory” was a common theme in many retailers’ earnings announcements in early Q1 of 2022. After a strong start to the quarter in inventory receipts and product sell-through, we experienced unexpected inventory receipt slides in key categories due to extended port and transportation delays.

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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.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 22, 2023

freight and logistics industry continues to mitigate recessionary conditions including the April 2023 Logistics Manager Index reaching its lowest level lowest level in six years and one-half years. freight, logistics and parcel movement industry. Freight rate reportedly fell 37 percent. The LMI has now declined 6.7

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 28, 2023

In early November, Supply Chain Matter’s highlighted the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) forecast of expected holiday spending to be in the range of a pre-pandemic level of between 3 percent and 4 percent over 2022 levels. percent increase reported for 2022 and an 8.5 percent increase, with a 7.6 percent increase reported for 2021.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides our latest news capsule format follow-up relative to the updating of prior supply chain management developments we have shared with readers. © Copyright 2022, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. All rights reserved.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Robinson Director of Research and Market Intelligence: The truck driver shortage is top of mind for many as supply chain disruptions continue, port backlogs persist, and the gap between inventory supply and sales demand widens. The answer is not simple and involves research and analysis across a number of factors.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 17, 2022

The manufacturing industry faces many challenges, such as a skilled labor shortage, supply chain instability, and inventory management issues. And moving materials and products was made difficult, especially at the start of the pandemic, due to closed borders, limited air freight, and driver shortages.

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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. West Coast dock workers that occur during the upcoming summer period that could provide added disruption for 2022 peak inbound volumes. This was a noted challenge for major U.S. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 3, 2022

The report further indicated that Inputs, expressed as supplier deliveries, inventories and imports, continued to constrain production expansion. In its latest forecast, Drewry Shipping Consultants indicated that it expects global freight rates to increase 39 percent this year as logjams impact ports in the second half of the year.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 22, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters industry specific commentary, we make the observation that retail industry sales and operations planning and demand support teams, given the current state of recent business financial performance, need to up their game in supply network inventory management agility and added responsiveness. .

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The report authors indicated that this decline was the largest since the start of the ongoing logistics industry downturn that that occurred in April 2022. The report specifically indicates : “ November’s dip was largely triggered by a decline in Inventory Levels (-9.1) and Transportation Capacity (+5.2)

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 19, 2022

In our Supply Chain Matters blog commentary on Tuesday of this week, we noted rather troubling signs for retail industry supply chains based on the Q1-2022 financial performance and profitability shortfall for Walmart. In its reporting, Bloomberg indicated that the value of Target ’s inventory surged 8.5 Bob Ferrari.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 7, 2023

Noted was a late May decline, largely driven by a more pronounced shift in inventories in the second half of May, reflecting a higher rate of expansion in the first half. Further, the report indicates that many consumer goods firms reportedly achieved the inventory wind down they strove for throughout 2022. The post U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 6, 2022

In late May, reporting on Q1-2022 quarterly financial performance, t he retailer stunned Wall Street with a reported 25 percent decrease in net income. Inventory levels reportedly increased more than 33 percent during the quarter, a reflection of what was described as an aggressive buying strategy amid supply chain disruptions.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

High freight volumes across all industries in the trucking market are expected to continue into 2022.? The added strain on resources is on track to force high freight volumes to continue well into the next year. Download the White Paper: Over the Road Freight Management Trends. Carrier Vetting for OTR Freight.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 1, 2023

CEO Jeff McCandless indicated to Freightways that whereas in prior months high-flying logistics and freight start-ups could secure millions of equity funding very readily, private equity investors have now shifted from a focus on growth at all costs to one of a demonstrable path to profitability and scalable growth. All rights reserved.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Ivalua Blog [ivory-search] Weathering Future Disruptions: 8 Steps to Building Supply Chain Resilience February 8, 2023 | | Manufacturing by Doug Keeley In the face of an unprecedented global crisis, Procurement stepped up to become a crucial driving force for business continuity.

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Zipline Logistics

MARCH 30, 2021

Following an unprecedented downturn, the freight market has posted an almost full calendar year of impressive growth spurred by demand from a few sectors of the domestic economy. The second half of the past quarter was highly atypical and posted freight volumes that vastly exceeded those generally seen during peak season.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights the increasing realities of declining global trade and freight rates that are occurring in the first-half of 2023. Background Global wide transportation and logistics costs increased at unprecedented rates during 2021 and 2022. billion in 2022, the company estimated.” All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 30, 2023

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights a further negative drop in the New York Federal Reserve’s Global Supply Chain Pressures Index ( GSPI ). freight and logistics recession , we called attention to reports that the Logistics Manager Index (LMI) for April reached an all-time low of 50.9, This recent April data reinforce that U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 23, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog continues to highlight for readers specific global and regional supply chain indices that depict both trending production activity levels, as well as supply chain volatility. The authors point to the delivery time disruptions occurring in China , an increase in air freight costs from the U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 4, 2023

However, we discern some added signs excess inventories and of production sourcing shifts. percentage points higher than the average value of Q4-2022 which was 48.9. as contrasted with the Q4-2022 average quarterly value of 49.5. percentage points below the Q4-2022 average of 49.2. but represented 0.6

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Either they can’t get products at all or there is a massive delay in when they can get them, resulting in upset customers, frustrated business owners, and overworked freight companies. To plan for Q4 inventory, you had to have your orders in place several months ago and now, it’s too late. Average Cheaper Costs. Conclusion.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 7, 2023

While 209,000 workers were added in June, 14,000 freight and parcel carriers were cut and 6,900 warehousing and storage jobs were lost. The July PMI report further pointed to current inventory levels being at their lowest point in the history of this index, and based on July data, is still an ongoing process. There were 1.96

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The online retail platform provider not only managed to take maximum advantage of the explosion of online retail market growth as an offshoot of a global wide pandemic during 2022, but also reformulate its hub and spoke oriented inventory deployment and customer fulfillment network. This prediction was as early as 2019.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 4, 2022

Noted is that at the onset of the second half of 2022, the elephant in the room remains high inflation. The question is posed as to whether actual shipping demand will align with this capacity, given the current state of excess inventories and fully utilized warehouse space in the S. and Europe. Bob Ferrari. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 13, 2023

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights a recent technology provider survey indicating that there appears to be little signs of traditional second-half peak period demand for container shipments. This survey was conducted in May among participants in the global freight forwarding community. All rights reserved.

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The conflict in the Ukraine is expected to continue throughout 2022, and will likely be a contracted conflict that will continue for perhaps five years or more. The EU economies will also be hit, especially Germany and Eastern Europe as we go into winter in 2022. The forecast is that the EU GDP growth will be reduced by 1.3 Not likely.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Overall retail sales in 2022 grew 9.5 percent growth in 2022 compared to a 4.9 Let’s first look back to April 2022 when the company reported its first quarterly loss in over seven years while delivering sober messages related to increased costs and declining order volumes associated with online retail.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 7, 2023

According to the June report summary , the primary driver of the latest decline was the inventory metric, which reportedly contracted 6.5 The prior sins of inventory excesses or bullwhip effects are now being addressed and as noted, the right sizing of inventory to anticipated product demand levels is now underway.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The Wall Street Journal reported this week (Paid subscription or metered view) that ocean container freight rates related to the most active global shipping lanes continue to decline amid what is traditionally considered the peak shipping period leading up to the holiday fulfillment season in the November-December period. Bob Ferrari.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 10, 2023

This start-up was founded by Matt McKinney and Shaosu Liu, both of whom had backgrounds at Uber Freight and decided to tackle the massive problem of building a new structure for the legacy freight payment system that supports the global supply chain. The technology start-up secured $30 million in Series A funding in 2022.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 10, 2023

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group through its affiliate the Supply Chain Matters blog shares select individual prediction snapshots that are included in our annual 2023 predictions for industry and global supply chains research advisory. A published Future of Freight study sponsored by Deloitte in September 2022 indicated that U.S.

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Intelligent Audit

DECEMBER 12, 2022

As shippers drew down existing inventories, replenishment became necessary to quickly satisfy consumers’ spending habits. This, along with container shortages, drove up ocean freight spot rates and caused sporadic export delays. How is Inflation affecting freight rates? PPI’s finished goods index increased 6.9%

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

percent for its LTL Freight unit, beginning in January 2023. percent rate increase initiated for this year, along with ongoing fuel and other surcharges added for respective parcel or freight movements. © Copyright 2022, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. . percent to 7.9

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 17, 2023

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group through its affiliate the Supply Chain Matters blog shares select individual prediction snapshots that are included in our annual 2023 predictions for industry and global supply chains research advisory. Background. Prediction Background. Parcel Segment.

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