Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 5, 2024

percentage points higher that the December 2023 ending value. along with Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia. percentage point increase over the average of Q4-2023. with the Q4-2023 quarterly average of 52.2, percentage points higher than the Q4-2023 average of 49.3. The March reading of 50.6 reflecting a 1.3

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 18, 2023

Investment firm Pimco indicated that countries such as India, Vietnam and Malaysia would benefit from China de-risking sourcing actions. Bob Ferrari © Copyright 2023, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. We pointed out that in 2022, more U.S. For those businesses located in the U.S.,

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 2, 2023

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights of February 2023 reported global and regional PMI indices which appear to indicate some stabilization within global supply chain networks. The February 2023 Manufacturing ISM® Report on Business® recorded a value of 47.7 The reported 50 value for February was up 0.9 reported for January.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 5, 2023

Supply Chain Matters provides our monthly highlights commentary reflecting on May 2023 reported global and regional PMI indices. The May composite index reading reflects companies continuing to manage outputs to better match demand for the first half of 2023 and prepare for growth in the late summer/early fall period.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The S&P Global Vietnam Manufacturing PMI® declined to 50.6 With the Eurozone now declared to be experiencing manufacturing recession, and with global wide manufacturing PMI now reported as two consecutive months of contraction, the prospects for 2023 remain concerning and meaningful for global chain activity volumes. Bob Ferrari.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 6, 2022

The industry consensus is that the ongoing chip shortage will extend to 2023. Elevated transportation and logistics costs and longer transit times have impacted profitability, despite ongoing price increases imposed on products. Steep transportation cost increases and shipping delays added to inventory management challenges.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 13, 2023

Our commentary reiterated that over the last three years there were reports indicating that Apple was instructing its contract manufacturers to begin evaluating and seeking out new hardware sourcing outside of China , specifically India and Vietnam , with the former garnering the most attention. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 25, 2022

Our stated belief was that the multi-industry supply chain challenges of 2021 would not abate and would linger in some cases into 2023. The most visible was that of Apple , which influenced its network of suppliers and contract manufacturers to shift sourcing to regions such as India and Vietnam. Mid-Year Assessment.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 3, 2023

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights and perspectives on reported July 2023 global and regional production and supply chain PMI indices. Further indicated were signs of weakness occurring in China , Japan , Malaysia, South Korea , Taiwan and Vietnam. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 20, 2022

Our stated belief was that the multi-industry supply chain challenges of 2021 would not abate and would linger in some cases into 2023. The likelihood of a full-blown recession impacting Europe by 2023 is now appears more cogent while prospects for growth of the U.S. economy in 2022 have been ratcheted down to just over 2 percent.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 10, 2022

The remarks made to Bloomberg were in the context of the pandemic induced aircraft demand contractions after two years of disruptions and setting the context for 2023 and beyond monthly production rate goal setting. We further cited CMS provider Pegatron ’s announced manufacturing investment in India, and expansion in Vietnam.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Moreover, Amazon refused even to discuss the situation in good faith with Gilimex, locking Gilimex’s CEO and management team out of Amazon’s headquarters in North Reading, Massachusetts after the Gilimex team had traveled thousands of miles from Vietnam for a meeting.” What happened? Mistakes happen.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Among the six countries that our research arm monitors in the Developing Economies category ( China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Vietnam, Thailand ) the average PMI value for Q3 was 52.1, However, report authors indicated that demand increases were generally driven from domestic needs as opposed to export needs. Bob Ferrari.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 14, 2023

Changing Landscape of Supply Chain Executives Traditionally, supply chain executives excelled in managing functions like transportation, warehousing, inventory, and production planning but supply chain process extends beyond the firm, involving global relationships with suppliers and customers.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 9, 2023

Background Within our research arm’s January 2023 published advisory, 2023 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains , we included a prediction that manufacturers would seek more direct control and added resiliency of their component or outsourced production supply networks in 2023. Mexico is near the U.S.

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Freightera

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Deglobalization will accelerate, and reshoring and localization of manufacturing will continue 2023 has seen a severe freight recession, especially in North America, with significant overcapacity and declining rates for ocean shipping as well. Freightera’s CEO, Eric Beckwitt Gives His Predictions on The Trends in Sustainability in 2024.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 7, 2023

The Altasian Option The Economist magazine in its February 25 th 2023 edition featured a report titled: The Altasian Option- Can Asia’s alternative supply chain steal China’s thunder? © Copyright 2023, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. Paid subscription required). All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Over the last three years Supply Chain Matters has highlighted various published reports of Apple instructing its contract manufacturers to begin evaluating and seeking out new hardware sourcing outside of China , specifically India and Vietnam. What apparently was missing is what specific challenges that entailed. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 5, 2024

reading reported at the end of 2023. This index is a compilation of seven ASEAN nations- Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand , and Vietnam. These latter two dimensions are a reflection of overall multi-industry supply network activity levels and momentum. The February 2024 reading of 50.3

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 31, 2023

Countries such as India , Vietnam and others welcome an Apple supply network presence with open arms. India along with Vietnam have the potential to be other significant markets for smartphones and consumer electronics as employment and income levels increase over the coming years. All rights reserved.

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Intelligent Audit

AUGUST 10, 2022

However, the battle is still the same for shippers; they must find affordable transportation, watch their costs, and know what to expect. Shipments From Australia, New Zealand, Vietnam, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines, or Taiwan to the U.S. per pound from Aug. 14, 2022, until further notice. . .

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6 River Systems

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Adidas @adidas Adidas is expected to move nearly 20% of its production to more automated factories by 2023 , many of them potentially proprietary. Wayfair is also running a pilot program through its CastleGate warehouse network to ship consolidated containers of goods from multiple suppliers from China, Malaysia and Vietnam.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 9, 2024

Prediction Background In our prior 2023 predictions published a year ago, we included two separate predictions related to how supply management and their strategic sourcing teams would encounter an added focus on business strategy alignment. imports of China based goods declined almost 23 percent in the first 10 months of 2023, while U.S.

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Abivin

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Global Maritime Routes and Chokepoints Maritime routes are a few kilometers wide corridors that connect economic regions and cross land transportation gaps. Major routes also involve the transport of raw commodities, including petroleum, grains, minerals, and food items. In 2023, the expansion is anticipated to be finished.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

reading reported at the end of 2023. Business confidence levels reportedly rose to their highest level since April of 2023. at the end of 2023, to the level of 56.5 reported at the end of 2023. percent in 2023, supported by strong consumer spending. The January 2024 reading of 50.0 increased 1.1 in January.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Jill Goldenziel , a professor at the National Defense University, reports that in June 2023, “China’s Foreign Ministry declared … that the Taiwan Strait is not international waters, but ‘are China’s internal waters, territorial sea, contiguous zone and exclusive economic zone in that order.'”[5] That’s Illegal.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 19, 2024

Background Just before the Christmas 2023 holiday, Supply Chain Matters alerted our readers to rather troubling signs for another global-wide shipping disruption. Shippers assessing shipping from China, India or Vietnam to either U.S. Vincent Clerc, the CEO of shipping conglomerate A.P. East Coast have a Red Sea disruption context.

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BR Williams Supply Chain Management

MARCH 10, 2023

A Preface (from our CEO ) Happy New Year 2023!!! Companies like Morgan Stanley, FTR Transportation Intelligence and others do a very good job of forecasting. 2023 Market Outlook As best we can, we will attempt to share what we see are the reasonable expectations of what 2023 will bring along with more specific industry insights.

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