QAD

APRIL 5, 2022

QAD is excited to announce the general availability of QAD Adaptive ERP 2022, the latest version of QAD’s next generation ERP solution that includes the Adaptive User Experience (UX) and the QAD Enterprise Platform. QAD Adaptive ERP 2022 Highlights. Digital Manufacturing.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

by Stephanie Krishnan – Associate Vice President, IDC Manufacturing & Energy Insights Asia/Pacific, IDC Asia/Pacific. “By By 2025, to improve long-term supply chain profitability, 60% of manufacturers in global supply chains will invest in software tools to support sustainability and circular economy business models.”.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 23, 2022

What Shippers and Retailers Need to Know for Peak Season Planning 2022. WRITTEN BY STEFANY MARTIN / POSTED ON JUNE 9, 2022. Original Article: What Shippers and Retailers Need to Know for Peak Season Planning 2022. When asked what peak season is, it’s easy to assume the holidays are the only peak shipping season.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Global shipping is national news with most stories covering the symptoms. When the ball drops on Times Square to welcome in 2022, the employees at the Port of Long Beach will celebrate moving 9 M TEUs in imports: a 26% increase year-over-year. meters, to accommodate ships with 20 rows of containers) and 15.2

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Global Production Activity Rise Global-wide manufacturing levels as depicted in the J.P. Morgan Global Manufacturing PMI® began 2024 with output levels rising for the first time in eight months. Global manufacturing employment levels fell for the fifth straight month. Manufacturing , there were mixed consensus.

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Freightos

APRIL 25, 2024

e-commerce customers’ love for free shipping. ‘de minimis’ rule, which exempts imports under $800 from customs and makes brokerage fees minimal, they have shipped massive volumes via air cargo. From Q3 2021 to early 2022, Freightos Air Index China-U.S. From Q3 2021 to early 2022, Freightos Air Index China-U.S.

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Arena Solutions

APRIL 4, 2023

The global manufacturing sector has seen an upswing, a technological renaissance of sorts. Since the start of 2012, more people graduating from college and universities are entering the engineering/manufacturing fields. The manufacturing sector has been severely impacted by this trend because production jobs are highly technical.

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Locus Robotics

JULY 12, 2022

Recent economic pressures and labor shortages have forced manufacturers and factories to become more flexible and efficient, but many don’t know where to start. Let’s look at the latest and greatest inventions, strategies, and systems that could help your facility stay competitive and thrive in 2022 and beyond. Mobile Robotics.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Increased Shipping Costs, Delays, and Transportation Issues. Dealing with the Shipping Container Crisis. 82% of people have concerns that the supply chain will ruin life plans, such as birthdays, vacations, holidays, and the purchasing of necessary items. Source: Consultancy.UK. Image source: Fortune. Reuters ).

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

She also said the company planned to ask workers to return to the office five days a week in 2024. Amazon achieved its fastest-ever global shipping times last year but isn’t resting on its laurels. rules issued in October 2022 restricted exports to semiconductor manufacturing facilities there as part of an effort to keep U.S.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MARCH 22, 2022

How Shipping Can Help Save The Planet. by Terry Seetoh Head of APAC & Oceania at International Log Tech Company, Adnavem. But to be honest, the shipping industry is as much of a culprit. Meanwhile, reports estimate that shipping contributes 3%, or a staggering 1 billion tonnes of CO2. Size Matters.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Background Within our research arm’s previously published industry and global supply chains predictions advisory published at the start of this year, we predicted that manufacturers would up their efforts this year in restoring more direct control and added resiliency in their direct materials component and outsourced manufacturing strategies.

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Synovos

JANUARY 24, 2024

RS Integrated Supply Joins Minority Supplier Development UK WARRINGTON, UK / RADNOR, PA 23 JANUARY 2024 – RS Integrated Supply, a global MRO supply chain management services company, announced it has joined Minority Supplier Development UK (MSDUK) as a corporate member as part of its commitment to growing a diverse supplier base.

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QAD

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Manufacturers and their supply chains have sustained crushing blows over the last 18 months, from the Suez Canal blockage to today’s port bottlenecks in Southern California and shipping delays in China. How do manufacturers deal with industry disruptors as they rear their ugly heads? Source: Xinde Marine News.

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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. Restoring More Direct Control in Materials Sourcing.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 9, 2022

… Slavery exists in all stages of the supply chain, from the picking of raw materials such as cocoa or cotton, to the manufacturing of goods such as mobile phones or garments, and at later stages of shipping and delivery to consumers.”[3]. The post Human Rights Day 2022 first appeared on Enterra Solutions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 26, 2022

As more consumers flock to e-commerce, purchasing big & bulky goods such as furniture, appliances, and wholesale electronics online is becoming more common. Larger types of retail goods such as furniture and appliances, also known as oversized, are more challenging to ship than small packages. On-site delivery experience and cost.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

That’s exactly what Amazon is doing as it with its “Ships in Product Packaging” (SIPP) program, which, as the name suggests, allows products to ship in their original box or bag without any added Amazon packaging. At this time, the company does not provide customers with any information about who is delivering their packages.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 30, 2022

Many businesses use some form of Total Cost of Ownership model to support their Procurement and sourcing decisions. In fact these models are not just used casually, but they often are designed to inform and make optimal sourcing choices. Typically and historically sourcing decisions were predominantly based on unit price.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 1, 2023

Continuing Disruptions in Transportation and Sourcing Materials After the pandemic, retailers are faced with new challenges and disruptions due to global conflicts, trade restrictions, and now recessions. They are more likely to shop for discounts and sales and may delay purchases of some items.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Today, more than 1% of the world’s container ships are stuck off major ports. Warehouses are full–often with the wrong stuff resulting in the slowing of the forty million shipping containers around the world. Too few companies have a holistic approach to embrace the plan, make, source, and deliver together.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

As Allyson presented her story of working for multiple consumer products companies, with very advanced technologies (demand sensing, advanced automation of forecasting, data lakes and descriptive analytics), she spoke of why at the end of the day, the most important technology that she uses is Excel. The question is, “Why?”

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2023

2022 Realities vs 2023 Predictions. 2022 was, undoubtedly, another tough year with many disruptions happening outside the four walls of enterprise – extreme weather, natural disasters blocking access to resources, port or border congestion delaying transit, panic buying artificially inflating demand, suppliers going out of business.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 18, 2022

For many years the predominant priority in sourcing has been finding the lowest cost possible. However the continuity of supply issues caused by the pandemic has created a call to repatriate much of this manufacturing into domestic, albeit higher cost, regions. What is the appropriate sourcing strategy going forward?

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 19, 2022

Some companies look for legal loopholes to help avoid or reduce duties without shifting production to other countries. are reporting that they are being inundated with requests from importers seeking to use provisions such as the “321 de minimis” rule, which allows goods worth less than $800 to be shipped to the U.S. Buying forward.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 29, 2024

Michael Jacobs, Senior Vice President of Supply Chain at Ferguson PLC In 2022, I wrote an article called The Best Supply Chain Company You Have Never Heard Of. The company sources goods from 36,000 suppliers out of 30 nations. The article was about Ferguson PLC, a value-added distributor of plumbing and heating products.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 2, 2023

manufacturers re-evaluating their reliance on China. manufacturers re-evaluating their reliance on China. That prospect became more conceivable, they said, after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine prompted companies to sever ties with Russia, sometimes taking huge write-downs. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

trillion to $14 trillion by 2022. Simply using common calendar tools, such as Google, means you are using the IoT, but the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) leads to the use of connected, smart devices to reduce inefficiencies, delays, and inaccuracies throughout the product lifecycle, including procurement as well.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Global shipping is national news with most stories covering the symptoms. When the ball drops on Times Square to welcome in 2022, the employees at the Port of Long Beach will celebrate moving 9 M TEUs in imports: a 26% increase in year-over-year volume. meters, to accommodate ships with 20 rows of containers) and 15.2

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ModusLink Corporation

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Procurement experts face transportation costs, customer demands, and high pressure on global container and air freight rates. Consider global container shipping rates. Ocean shipping rates will remain high and unpredictable until the end of 2023, compared to pre-pandemic years, so shippers need to adjust and find new ways to succeed.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 5, 2022

He explains, “In 2022, it’s going to be important that supply chain technology companies can really provide solutions that enhance connectivity and visibility.”[1] Ultimately, learning from the future can help companies prepare for risks.” For example, the price to ship a container skyrocketed.

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RFgen

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Digital automation remains one of the hottest topics among manufacturing executives, plant managers, industry operation professionals and finance stakeholders. Our 2022 Digital Inventory Report captured key decision makers’ mindsets, challenges, and planning initiatives as it relates to digital automation technologies.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 5, 2022

… Companies are struggling to find space for the glut of apparel, kitchen appliances and other goods filling up their supply chains.” Retail journalist David Moin writes, “With steeper promotions and smaller gains anticipated, the 2022 holiday season will be a far cry from last year’s.”[3] Power agrees.

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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. In a published Supply Chain Matters at the time , we pointed out that despite knowledge that manufacturing shoes in the U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 10, 2023

The company, headquartered in Stoughton Massachusetts, is now headed by Adam Franklin. Sporting Goods companies must be able to support dramatic changes in demand and fast-growing new business lines. Without an efficient supply chain, a company can’t meet the demand that exists, and competitors swoop in and grab market share.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Border controls, China’s zero-covid policy and global shipping costs and energy prices is putting increasing pressure on supply chains throughout the Asia Pacific region. This shifting mindset is evident in many of the recent strategy shifts seen among some of the world’s largest companies. Inventory and Capacity Buffers.

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Freightos

JUNE 6, 2023

This was terrible news for a company now on the hook to ship to kids who were suddenly cooped up and hankering for a fort. As Conor told us in a podcast episode from 2022: Pretty quickly we realized our costs were going to be about 30% higher than we thought. to 0.85 (Source: ShipBob ). The key takeaway?

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