Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 28, 2024

In conjunction with the reporting of 2023 financial performance, the California based EV maker announced that the company would lay off upwards of 15 percent of its current staffing, amid cash and ongoing business and supply chain related challenges. The company reported a cash balance of slightly over $325 million at the end of 2023.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 6, 2023

” – Sir Winston Churchill Having just returned from the 2023 Automotive Logistics and Supply Chain Global conference in Detroit, these words are very fitting to encapsulate the essence of the event. OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers should consider long-term forecast collaboration and capacity cooperation with their Tier-n suppliers.

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OptiProERP

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The global smart manufacturing market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 16% from 2023 to 2032. Billion by 2032, and North America is expected to have the largest market size during this forecast period. Brainy Insights estimates that the smart manufacturing market will reach USD 695.07

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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. According to data from Bloomberg Intelligence , container trade for the Asia to North America segment fell 26 percent during Q1 of this year.

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ivalua

MAY 9, 2023

Ivalua Spend Management Insights [ivory-search] Procurement in the Age of Uncertainty: 4 Lessons from the New Forrester Study May 9, 2023 | | Innovation by Alex Saric In today’s age of uncertainty, procurement departments are under tremendous pressure. The remaining 27% felt they performed in line.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 4, 2023

In its reporting of Tesla ’s operating performance, The Wall Street Journal provided the context that this auto maker indicated in October that it would likely come up short of its delivery target for the year, but the actual delivery performance fell short of a revised FactSet forecast of 1.34 million vehicles. Bob Ferrari.

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SCMDOJO

MAY 13, 2022

The overall outlook both in trade and the shipping industry, for the upcoming months, isn’t quite predictable now as disruptions continue and are expected to last through Q2 and Q3 2022 at least, if not fall way into 2023. To combat runaway inflation, which reached 7.9%

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Intelligent Audit

OCTOBER 10, 2022

For example, carriers plan to reduce the capacity for the Asia-to-North America West Coast trade lanes by as much as 29% in the weeks following China’s Golden week in early October. The freighter service, operated by Atlas Air, will launch in early 2023 following the delivery of four Boeing 777-200F planes.

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Locus

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Retailers across North America were looking forward to this year’s back-to-school season with eager anticipation. Forecasts by Ascential Retail Insight show that e-commerce will secure a 34.8% share of chain retail sales by 2023, up from 30% in 2021.

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Locus

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The last mile delivery market size in North America is expected to grow by USD 59.81 Technavio, Last Mile Delivery Market in North America by Service and Geography – Forecast and Analysis 2021-2025, Jan 2021. D2C online market is forecast to grow to 129 U.S. billion dollars by 2023.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Part Two: How to Reduce Labour Costs in Your Warehouse According to a 2023 benchmark report by AutoStore , 34% of business leaders in the Asia Pacific fulfilment sector, and 27% of those in North America, cite rising labour costs as a substantial challenge for warehousing operations.

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Locus

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Forecasts suggest that online sales for the holiday period would grow by about 2.5 percent in North America in 2022. If adoption of last-mile logistics software is part of your business plan to improve delivery experiences for 2023, we can help you get the ball rolling. Talk to our experts! Schedule Demo.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

G, the official groundhog of Massachusetts made her 16 th annual Groundhog Day forecast at Drumlin Farm in Lincoln, MA. And location is everything in weather forecasting. G did not see her shadow, predicting an annual Spring! She may have less experience than Phil, but she is closer to my location. decline in Q4.

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BlueYonder

AUGUST 17, 2023

trillion loss for the world’s retailers in 2023 alone. In 2023, IHL estimates that out-of-stocks will account for a $1.2 Worldwide, retailers’ overstocks performance is improving; 2023 losses were 21.6% In North America, retail loss due to out-of-stocks actually increased by a staggering 17.7% Trillion in 2023.

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Cognira

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Cognira To Provide Its PromoAI Solution To KeHE September 5, 2023 Press Release Home Cognira will deliver their AI Promotion Solution– a single platform that transforms promotion management Cognira is pleased to announce a new partnership with KeHE , a leading wholesale food distributor in North America.

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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. With spot rates for container movements now hovering at pre-pandemic lows, and shipping company profits expected to decline in 2023, leverage points among the bargaining parties have changed. All rights reserved.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

New Jersey-based Maersk North America will deploy the battery-powered flying cameras to handle the “difficult, repetitive, and tedious” task of warehouse inventory management, which is says requires workers to work at heights and produces a quality of data that is often questioned. billion in 2023, down from $100.3

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Material Handling & Logistics

AUGUST 11, 2017

Executives at five of the 25 biggest suppliers to automakers in North America have all downplayed this month expectations for electric-vehicle sales. auto production would be electric in 10 years, the parts makers have issued modest forecasts and spoken in circumspect, even defiant, tones. Magna International Inc.,

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 23, 2023

This agreement has been characterized by The Wall Street Journal as being the largest collective bargaining agreement involving a private employer in North America. UPS adjusted its forward-looking performance downward, now indicating 2023 revenues of $93 billion compared to an earlier year forecast of $97 billion revenues.

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BlueYonder

MAY 15, 2023

Recently Blue Yonder released the findings of its annual Supply Chain Executives Survey 1 , which echoed many of the key themes we heard at ICON 2023. Again, these themes were reinforced as we met with over 2,000 attendees at ICON 2023. These top challenges are: Ongoing supply chain disruptions.

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QAD

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

From Tesla the unicorn, China, why EVs aren’t consumer lead and why batteries may not be the only solution, Mark Gallivan sat down with Joe McCabe of AutoForecast Solutions at the Southern Automotive Conference 2023. We forecast every new vehicle to be built worldwide for the next 8 years,” McCabe opens.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Overcome supply chain challenges – and maximize margins in the face of inflation – with retail planning software and demand forecasting tools. As some component lead times push into 2023, the shortage is expected to last 24 months before it recedes – similar to the chip shortage of 2008-2009. Consultancy UK). Tip: Find out how.

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Vinculum

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

million by 2023, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 7.0% during the forecast period. The forecast period is from 2018 to 2023, whereas 2017 is the base year for estimating the market study. The cloud software segment is expected to grow at the highest CAGR over the forecast period. North America.

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Elementum

AUGUST 2, 2017

Forecast to grow by a CAGR of 7.5% by 2023 between its different segments including roadways, waterways, railways, and airways. by 2023 between its different segments including roadways, waterways, railways, and airways. by 2020 globally, the logistics industry is booming. in 2015 to US $15.5T in 2015 to US $15.5T

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 21, 2023

North America segment operating income was $3.2 Operating income is forecasted to be between $5.5 Indeed, by the end of 2023 retailers could be reflecting on quite a changed picture of retail fulfillment and of physical execution fulfillment networks. Overall revenues rose 11 percent to $134.2 billion and $8.5

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

It is difficult to forecast dropping demand. So, if a recession appears likely, companies need to error on the side of a conservative forecast, be prepared to lay off workers sooner rather than later, and start drawing down their safety stock inventory. There is a playbook for companies facing a recession. That did not happen.

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Resilinc

DECEMBER 13, 2022

According to Bloomberg , China’s share of global EV sales will reach 60% by Q1 2023. “In Moreno forecast that this value chain would grow first to supply “base metals such as copper and battery-grade nickel, and then the more critical ones like cobalt, graphite, lithium, manganese and then rare earths.”

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