Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 18, 2023

As consumer spending fell, the days of escalating ocean freight and extreme shipping variability eased this year. In the spring of 2022, Asia/US ocean container rates resumed pre-pandemic levels and congestion eased in November 2022 into California ports. Yes, we have achieved greater normalcy in transportation. Shift in cycles.

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ProcurePort

DECEMBER 28, 2021

There has been a shortage of materials, shipping prices have gone up, and ports have been backed up. The post 2022: The Year to Build Supply Chain Resiliency appeared first on ProcurePort Blog. Global supply chains have suffered immensely in the last two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Synovos

JANUARY 24, 2024

By joining their network, RS Integrated Supply is able to connect with more than 500 procurement professionals, improving its supplier diversity. RS Integrated Supply was introduced by RS Group in 2022 after combining Synovos and IESA, two procurement and supply chain management companies. million customers.

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Freightos

JANUARY 15, 2024

In fact, the hard reality is that looking back over the past decade, supply chains have been disrupted by shipping bankruptcies, wars, pandemics, geopolitics and tariffs. They should monitor the evolving geopolitical situation and adjust their shipping strategies accordingly. Most of these are nearly impossible to plan for.

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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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American Global Logistics

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The new model being developed in 2022 is customer-centric and strategic in outlook and planning. We’ll look back to events in 2022 that show this transition and transformation in the making. We’ll examine the remaining five next week in our final post of 2022. #1 Likewise, ships could not sail into or out of Russia and Ukraine.

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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. Mid-Year Global Transportation Assessment.

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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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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. Work to achieve 100% supply chain visibility.

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Procurement Academy

JANUARY 5, 2023

Stress was a state of mind for supply chain and procurement professionals during the pandemic. An astounding 98% of the 200 senior supply chain and procurement professionals who took part in our recent study identified significant issues facing their function. s website more than doubled between January 2020 and March 2022.

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HICX Solutions

JUNE 24, 2022

Prominent members of the procurement community discuss why we should care about the supplier’s experience, at last week’s World Procurement Congress. Four inspiring procurement and supply chain leaders advocated supplier-centricity, at Procurement Leaders’ World Procurement Congress 2022, which took place in London last week.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 25, 2022

West Coast Container Ship Backup Has Ended. In our Supply Chain Matters news capsule of September 27, we pointed out that business, supply chain and transportation media had reported this that the cost of shipping a container of goods from China to the U.S. Whereas the spot rate to ship a container from China to the U.S.

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Intelligent Audit

JANUARY 11, 2022

The state of supply chain tech in 2022, or supply chain technology, will be one for the record books. That’s why it’s important to have an objective view of what’s happening to supply chain tech in 2022 and what it means for your organization’s future. Such applications are also more actionable and based on specific shipping needs.

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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. The February 2022 Manufacturing ISM© Report on Business reported a value of 58.6, for February, up from 55.5 reported for January.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 1, 2023

In March 2022, online shopping was up 27% over the previous year. From the start of the pandemic until March 2022, online shopping went up by 33%. In 2022 overall, U.S. Shipping items back and forth creates needless greenhouse gas emissions, and only 54% of all packaging gets recycled. in 2021 compared to the year before.

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Freightos

JANUARY 3, 2024

More Resources Home Red Sea and Suez Canal Shipping Crisis Update Judah Levine Optimize your logistics tendering, vendor selection, negotiations, and procurement with Freightos Data Book a Demo Even with an international naval force in place, Houthi attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea continue.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 7, 2022

In a prior published commentary, we provided highlights of March and Q1-2022 global production indices along with their implications. We now add highlights of March and Q1-2022 key global transportation and logistics indices. Global Shipping. Shipping Transit Timeliness. per 40-foot container.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 10, 2022

Global shipping services provider A.P. Moeller Maersk report of Q1-2022 financial performance provides indications of what multi-industry supply chain management teams can expect for the remainder of 2022 in the area of ocean container transportation. Outlook for Remainder of 2022. billion, an increase of $6.9

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 13, 2022

This action represents a reported 77 percent premium to the company’s closing stock price on November 22, 2022, the last full trading day prior to media reports involving a potential transaction. © Copyright 2022, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. billion in October 2020. All rights reserved.

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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. © Copyright 2022, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. Bob Ferrari.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 5, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog features our March 5, 2022 edition of This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech , a synopsis of noteworthy supply chain management focused technology news which we believe would be of specific interest to our global-based blog readership. Names included in this edition include: RightHand Robotics.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The notions of an unanticipated global-wide pandemic, unprecedented disruptions in supplier lead times, global transportation, and the burden of a sevenfold increase in ocean container shipping rates have tested prior product business strategies and supply chain practices. Reader Takeaways. No company seems immune. Bob Ferrari.

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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. The 2022 event is in Washington. Supply chain shortages abound. The supply chain impact is unprecedented.

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The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Bill Vitti joined Transflo as President in early 2022, with more than 25 years’ experience in the transportation industry. Bill is the President and CRO of Transflo, the trusted industry leader in mobile, telematics, and business process automation solutions to the transportation industry. About Bill Vitti .

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

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. Greener Shopping and Shipping: The Rise of Carbon Neutral e-Commerce Delivery.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Electrical contractors have felt the impact, which is predicted to continue throughout 2022. With the war in Ukraine inflicting more injury to an already weak global supply chain, you can expect high prices, product scarcity, and project delays through 2022. in April 2022 over March 2022. rose 71.47% from one year ago.

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ShipBob

JUNE 29, 2022

Ecommerce enablement involves the incorporation of features such as Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), shopping carts, and shipping service tools. Faster shipping, fueled by enhanced fulfillment operations, is also adding to the appeal and convenience of ecommerce shopping. Recent ecommerce trends and why you should get involved.

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ivalua

JUNE 1, 2022

Sajid Kunnummal, Vice President and CPO at Navistar, was interviewed by Philip Ideson from Art of Procurement to discuss the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Procurement. When the crisis hit, Procurement as a function was suddenly in the hot seat, and it became the driving force for business continuity.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 23, 2022

American Shipper reported last week that the number of container ships calling on major U.S. West Coast ports during 2021 in trying to process historic ship backlog levels. West Coast dock workers that occur during the upcoming summer period that could provide added disruption for 2022 peak inbound volumes. All rights reserved.

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Locus Robotics

JULY 12, 2022

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. 14 Manufacturing Trends in 2022. Accessible Automation. The post 14 Trends Shaping the Future of Manufacturing in 2022 appeared first on Locus Robotics. Mobile Robotics.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Supply Chain Matters highlights an added admission, this time from a shipping industry senior executive, indicating that the period of windfall profits among global shipping players is coming to an end. . We neglected to mention another observation that came from the CFO of influential global container shipping conglomerate Maersk.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 3, 2022

As noted in our Supply Chain Matters observations of global indices related to procurement and production activity for March and Q1-2022 , the data is no longer reflecting the optimism indicated in February, and now reflect that of growing headwinds and added geo-political concerns. Added Supply Chain Matters Observations and Insights.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

OCTOBER 15, 2023

1 Your Input Channel In November 2022 my story To Realize the Circular Economy Dream – Reach Out to Your Community , I used the example of a company that takes bread crusts (a by-product of one industry) and uses it for making beer. Singapore for instance only really recycled 6% of the plastic collected in 2022.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 6, 2022

Empty shipping containers stack up at US port depots. UPS plans to implement its smart package initiative at 100 facilities in 2022, which will involve using RFID tags on packages to speed up throughput. There has been a lot written about the need for shipping containers. Industrial Market Update – Q1 2022.”

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights of the realities of higher number of vessels among global ocean container shipping lines meeting contracting shipping demand levels that are now leading to headcount and schedule reductions. Background Ocean container shipping and logistics are the lifeblood of global supply chain movements.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 3, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters commentary, we highlight quantitative data related to global and regional supply chain production activity levels in May 2022, as depicted by the reported PMI indices. That places the summer months, traditionally the ramp-up of global shipping to support holiday related product demand, at an increased peril.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 19, 2022

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. LogiSYM Supply Chain Magazine – August 2022. For instance, law firms and consultants in the U.S. without being subject to tariffs.

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