Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

As businesses report their financial performance for the 2022 final quarter and full year, Supply Chain Matters highlights select bellwether firms that we consider a relatively good indicator of anticipated 2023 industry supply chain challenges. trillion won in consolidated revenue and KRW 4.3 Stay tuned.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

Digitisation for Optimised Capacity and Inventory Buffers. Traditionally, supply chain profitability has long depended on minimizing surplus due to the cost of capacity and inventory buffers. Inventory buffers encourage adaptability, create agility in the supply chain and allow for better planning.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

As businesses report their financial performance for the 2022 final quarter and full year, Supply Chain Matters highlights Amazon’s reported quarterly and full year financial and operational performance. Fourth Quarter 2022 The online shopping platform provider reported Net Sales of $149.2 Amazon.com Inc.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights and added perspectives on reported November 2022 global manufacturing PMI and supply chain activity indices. There are additional signs of a global glut in overall inventory levels, yet selective component shortages remain for certain industries. Bob Ferrari.

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Logility

JUNE 2, 2022

Logility chosen for delivering pioneering technology solutions that power today’s supply chains. ATLANTA – June 2, 2022 – Logility, Inc., a leader in supply chain innovation powering the sustainable and resilient enterprise, today was announced as a winner of Inbound Logistics’ 2022 Top 100 Logistics IT Providers award.

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Locus

APRIL 1, 2022

It gives us immense pleasure to announce that Locus has been listed as a Representative Vendor in the 2022 Gartner® Market Guide for Supply Chain Network Design Tools. There is also the question of rising uncertainty caused by unpredictable events on supply chain performance. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights and added perspectives to retailer Walmart’s report of Q4 and Fiscal 2024 financial and operational performance. billion in 2022. billion in 2022. billion in 2022. Inventory Management The retailer reported inventory declines of 4.5

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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. Bob Ferrari.

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Logility

MARCH 21, 2023

According to Deloitte’s Q4 2022 CFO Signals survey , only 29% of CFOs believe now is a good time to take on greater risk, which lags far behind a two-year average of approximately 50%. Promote the right stock at the right time Statistically, causal-driven forecasts can be used to understand how sales have historically performed.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 6, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights and added perspectives to U.S. retailer Target’s recent reporting of Q4 and Fiscal 2024 financial and operational performance. billion, reflective of lower merchandise markdowns and lower inventory, supply chain, and digital fulfillment costs. billion in 2022.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Specifically for retail and consumer goods focused supply chain management teams, a short-term tactical concern is the ongoing management of excess product inventories, which in many cases, need to be trimmed before the end of the year. Taking Advantage of Transportation and Logistics Market Dynamics. Bob Ferrari.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 7, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights select June and Q2-2022 global manufacturing and supply chain indices, with the data indicating increased headwinds and challenges in the months to come. The average global PMI value for Q2-2022 was 52.3, The March 2022 reading index was 57.1 down from 53.0

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 11, 2022

“In 2022,” she explains, “I frequently ask companies to draw their river of demand. For example, manufacturing may be tasked to fill all orders which requires having inventory on-hand in distribution centers. However, distribution centers may be given the conflicting task of minimizing excess inventory space and cost.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Breaking Down Silos Between Procurement, Planning and Logistics – Siloed supply chains can result in latency, lack of responsiveness, expediting, excess inventory, and dramatic inefficiencies, which are exacerbated today by rising customer expectations and increased volatility.

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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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Enterra Insights

APRIL 13, 2023

She reports, “Retailers like Best Buy, Party City, Walmart and Wayfair announced layoffs in 2022. ” In addition to leveraging advanced digital technologies, both ToolsGroup and McKinsey & Company analysts insist that retailers must improve their supply chain performance to survive.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

The answer, quite simply, is through a relentless focus on resilience across the entire supply chain. As of January 1, 2022, it was taking a company an average of 73 days to deliver goods to truck or rail carriers after booking with an ocean carrier and completing the cross-ocean journey, according to E2open’s Ocean Shipping Index.

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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 In reality, the 3.1

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

percent in 2022. percent level of holiday spending, the current forecast calls for a range of between 3 percent and 4 percent over 2022 levels. A prior record established in 2022 was $929.5 percent to 1.14 trillion yuan, equivalent to $156.4 That compared to a reported growth of 2.9 billion for the two month period.

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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. What supply chain management and line-of-business teams should take special note of were the stated reasons for November’s significant decline.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2023

Given the competitive nature of the logistics industry, companies are increasing collaboration across their entire value chain and working towards making logistics more efficient and sustainable. Flexibility for Resilient and Optimised Logistics and Supply Chain. Technology and automation are major enablers towards this.

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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

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 8, 2022

Supply Chain Matters highlights two additional indices of global and US supply chain volatility relative to July 2022 global supply chain activity levels. Global Supply Chain Pressure Index. Warehousing and Inventory metrics continue to buoy the logistics sector.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JUNE 30, 2022

Deep insight into inventory and supply chain visibility are top priority in times of supply crisis. LogiSYM Supply Chain Magazine – June -July 2022. Selecting a Supply Chain Technology Provider is Harder than it Seems. Increasing Supply Chain Performance in the Digital Era.

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Logility

APRIL 20, 2022

If resilience is the panacea to today’s supply chain challenges, it seems that everyone has a different prescription. Every industry article, news segment, analyst research paper, and boardroom conversation offers varying perspectives on the real issues impacting supply chain performance and the best way to fix them.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 12, 2022

He was also unaware of how to measure Forecast Value-Added, the Bullwhip impact and the health of inventory. What is the role of the forecast, budget, market data, and inventory in the proposed project? Cover of the Supply Chain Shaman’s Journal, Published August 2022. These modeling concepts were new to him.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 21, 2022

Supply chain excellence is harder to define than to say. To help, we analyze business results each year to understand which companies outperform on the balanced scorecard of growth, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) over the past ten years. The winners include Apple, AbbVie Inc.,

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ModusLink Corporation

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This approach can help shippers improve customer service, gain a competitive edge, and effectively manage inventory management. Pursue Proactive Risk Mitigation Shippers must find and deal with possible risks in their supply chains, from the factory to the final delivery. Managing supply chain risks.”

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 17, 2022

Global retailer Walmart reported Q1-2022 financial performance this week and described the current retail business profitability environment as unexpected and unusual. Business media headlines note a big earnings miss as higher supply chain related costs are taking a toll. percent to $141.6 Sales among Walmart ’s U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Current Year 2022. The basis of our Ferrari Consulting and Research Group 2022 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains in 2022 was the theme of ‘ Reexamination ’ which was a spillover of the escalation of global wide disruptions, supply chain driven cost inflation and critical parts shortages leading to lost revenue growth.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Implied is that these vehicles will remain as factory inventory until needed components arrive and customer or dealer orders can then be fulfilled. Ford will formally report its Q3 financial performance in late October but was compelled to issue this week’s warning. sales organization and vehicle distribution strategies.

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BlueYonder

JUNE 1, 2023

This is Part 2 of the learnings and insights from the discussions with supply chain leaders and from additional sessions by Gartner analysts about new technologies that will be beneficial to long-term supply chain performance. They can also better highlight the inventory and available-to-sell to the sales team.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 4, 2022

A July edition provided two reports that responded to the question- Are Global Supply Chains Recovering ? Noted is that at the onset of the second half of 2022, the elephant in the room remains high inflation. © Copyright 2022, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 6, 2022

Toyota Motor reported a 19 percent decline in total sales for the first six months of this year while Hyundai Motor reported a 23 percent decline in second quarter sales and a 16 percent sales reduction for the first half of 2022. Steep transportation cost increases and shipping delays added to inventory management challenges.

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SCMDOJO

AUGUST 16, 2023

By employing these technologies, Walmart gains valuable insights into customer buying behavior, sales trends, and inventory levels. The ability to analyze this data enables the retail giant to make informed decisions on product procurement, inventory management, and demand forecasting.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 19, 2022

Strategies to improve your Supply Chain article and permission to publish here provided by Claire Glassman. The supply chain is a significant part of your overall business strategy and inventory management. The other strategic solution you should know to build resilient supply chains is to monitor your system.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 28, 2024

billion reported for 2022. For the full year, the luxury EV auto maker produced 8,428 vehicles, compared to 7,180 vehicles produced in 2022. This start-up’s uniqueness is a vertically integrated supply network and production capability, one that is capital intensive. Operating losses amounted to $736.9 billion, compared to $2.6

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