Synovos

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Integrated Supply in 2024: Three Trends Reshaping the Industry When it comes to the three biggest trends within integrated supply this year, the need for accurate data is a common thread. AI will continue to make headlines in 2024, but within the world of integrated supply, it is already making a difference on the ground. “AI

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 5, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides readers a further installment in our global supply chain assessment series in providing highlights on reported March 2024, and Q1-2024 global and regional production and supply chain PMI indices. This index closed Q1-2024 at 1.8 Morgan Global Manufacturing PMI® ended March on an optimistic footing.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JANUARY 29, 2024

Many governments are incentivising companies to invest in new manufacturing technologies, and the manufacturing sector in Asia has undergone significant change in recent years. Manufacturing will continue to be shaped in 2024 and beyond, by technological advances. Technology is becoming a major focus for Asian manufacturers.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Supply Chain Matters highlights the announcement from Airbus setting aggressive aircraft production and delivery targets for 2024. 2024 Production Goal This week, commercial aircraft manufacturer Airbus established a goal to deliver upwards of 800 commercial aircraft this year. years of order backlog. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 19, 2024

Our Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech column has had a brisk start in our 2024 postings, and we have added this supplemental posting. In our initial 2024 posting last week, we highlighted two acquisitions related to supply chain technology providers. governmental agencies to include U.S. All rights reserved.

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ThroughPut

MARCH 25, 2024

Demand forecasting is a critical component of supply chain management, especially in the complex and unpredictable market landscape of 2024. Our 2024 guide provides supply chain managers and planners with the latest tools and insights to refine their demand forecasting processes.

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ivalua

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Under Pressure, Will Procurement Take Performance Higher in 2023? . Procurement and supply chain teams have been trying to hold the line against macroeconomic and global market forces that have been pushing hard against them for nearly three years. Procurement and supply chain teams are under constant pressure. “Our

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ThroughPut

APRIL 30, 2024

Strategically, it provides Chief Supply Chain Officers (CSCOs) with insights into how each decision affects the company’s finances. AI in transportation and logistics optimization: AI in transportation and logistics has also made life easier for logistics and transportation companies in supply chains.

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QAD

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The upcoming 9th UK Lumenia ERP HEADtoHEAD event, scheduled for 13-14 March 2024 in Milton Keynes, presents a unique opportunity for decision-makers in manufacturing and supply chain organizations to explore leading ERP solutions that can drive business transformation.

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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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EC Sourcing Group

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The procurement world is on the brink of a new era. As 2024 approaches, a wave of technological advancements promises to redefine eSourcing , turning today’s best practices into relics of the past. These innovations aren’t just upgrades—they are game-changers, reshaping the procurement landscape and setting the bar for what’s possible.

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ThroughPut

JANUARY 2, 2024

It demands an in-depth understanding of every stage of the supply chain, from the initial procurement of raw materials to the delivery of the final product. What Kind of Companies Use Just-In-Time (JIT) Inventory Management? Companies of all sizes across various industries use JIT Inventory Management.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 16, 2024

Business experts continue to encourage companies to become data-driven enterprises. Mankins and Lori Sherer , explain, “The best way to understand any company’s operations is to view them as a series of decisions.”[1] Too many companies fall into the decision abyss when it comes to their supply chain.” a decision).

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Resilinc

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Learn how implementing an Enterprise Risk Management framework can help your company on the journey to operational resilience. Businesses have started to see risk management as a necessary facet of running a successful company. Then, we lay a framework for enhancing your ERM program with actionable steps your company can take.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The company noted that quarterly revenue and profit performance actually improved from the sequential third quarter, attributed to a recovery in memory chip devices and strength in sales of premium electronic displays. The company’s memory chip segment remained at a loss for the fourth consecutive quarter but with losses narrowing.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 3, 2024

Major Earthquake Senior business, procurement, information technology or supply chain executives with the responsibility for the assessment and mitigation of business related risks can often contemplate various impactful risk events. Bob Ferrari © Copyright 2024, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog.

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

I’m proud to be part of a team and an organization that embodies these values, driving customer-centric innovations and helping companies navigate supply chain uncertainty.” Read the Q&A with Inna Kuznetsova for her latest insights on AI, innovation, 2024 supply chain trends, and women in supply chain HERE. 14-15, 2023 in Atlanta.

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Jaggaer

DECEMBER 1, 2023

JAGGAER's latest news on procurement & sourcing. Read now: Strategies for Mitigating Cyber Fraud: Five Essential Tips for Safeguarding Your Company in 2024.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The advisory defined further opportunities as extended joint procurement agreements, joint operations and equipment pooling in the short-term, and joint back-offices, shared service centers and IT development over the long-term. This BCG advisory further argued that carriers had yet to tap the potential of multi-carrier capacity agreements.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

OCTOBER 14, 2021

trillion industry by 2024 , consisting of not only food, but also cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, modest fashion, media & creation, and Muslim friendly travel. A halal value chain approach to halal is about the halal DNA of a company, which includes human resource management (HRM). distributor, retailer) and suppliers (e.g.:

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Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 4, 2024

Transport companies are dropping rates to attract business. Currently, it’s a shipper’s market. The quantity of freight in circulation is low, providing shippers with leverage.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Background Supply chain ethical and social responsibility, that which umbrellas ESG conformance, have increasingly become a concern for businesses, large and small, along with their procurement organizations. © Copyright 2024, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 25, 2024

This morning’s announcement calls for a reported set of sweeping changes to senior management which include the company’s CEO , head of commercial airplanes business unit, and board chairperson. Existing CEO Dave Calhoun will reportedly be leaving the company at the end of 2024. All rights reserved.

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Proxima

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

However, it feels like companies have rapidly reached the limit of what can be achieved through headcount reductions. Here are four key actions CPOs and procurement teams can do to impact their organization’s cost in 2024: The first is understanding where you are on cost in relation to your competitors and the marketplace more broadly.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

production worker hourly wages starting in January 2024. Tesla further indicated that the company would pay a 1,500 euro bonus in December to offset inflation levels in Germany. Labor Department indicating that warehouses and transportation companies employed 25,000 few workers in October than the year-earlier period.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 10, 2024

Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech kicks off our 2024 series with two acquisition announcements related to multiple supply chain providers. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Chicago , Sphera is a portfolio company of Blackstone , a U.S.-based

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Freightos

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

I’ve spoken with four Fortune 500 companies who have shifted or are in the process of shifting to index-linked contracts for their ocean freight, to the tune of many 100s of millions of dollars. Blog " * " indicates required fields Email * Comments This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

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Proxima

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

However, it feels like companies have rapidly reached the limit of what can be achieved through headcount reductions. Here are four key actions CPOs and procurement teams can do to impact their organization’s cost in 2024: The first is understanding where you are on cost in relation to your competitors and the marketplace more broadly.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 24, 2024

Financial Outlook for 2024 Highlights of SAP ’s 2024 financial guidance included: Cloud revenue growth of between €17.0 The business outlook for 2024 indicates an expected customer net promoter score of between 9 to 13. We have published a separate follow-on commentary regarding this 2024 effort, so look for that.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 6, 2024

Electric vehicle company Fisker recently issued a going concern warning amid continued production and supply chain challenges. The company reported a cash balance of slightly over $325 million at the end of 2023. In 2020, Fisker went public as an asset-light company under a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC).

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 23, 2024

This year, nearly 40,000 attendees comprising 6,200 brands from all over the world headed to the Javits Center to see what new solutions and innovations software and hardware suppliers had in store for 2024 and beyond. The company has a chat bot for tracking and managing an order that is natively built in the OMS.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group highlights a 2024 prediction of added labor activism continuing across industry supply chains in 2024. Continued Labor Activism Labor activism in the form of labor contract negotiations will continue in 2024, and include spillover from actions that occurred in 2023.

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QAD

MAY 23, 2023

Companies that move fast and act smart now can stay ahead of due diligence legislation, mitigate supply chain risk and gain a competitive advantage in the process. Ninety percent of companies have an ESG strategy in place and chances are good yours does, too – or will very soon.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 12, 2024

based company were to assume direct ownership of Spirit as a means to restore more direct control of internal production processes, it would have to deal with the existing supply agreements that are supporting specific Airbus aircraft production needs.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group via its Supply Chain Matters outreach blog highlights a recently published survey sponsored by Accenture that provides findings indicating that companies are indeed investing in supply chain resiliency capabilities to mitigate business disruption. In 2022, more U.S. Stay tuned.

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ivalua

JUNE 11, 2023

Ivalua Spend Management Insights [ivory-search] Navigating CSRD Regulation: What Procurement, Supply Chain, and Finance Leaders Need to Know June 12, 2023 | | Sustainability by Vishal Patel In an effort to drive sustainability and combat climate change, the European Union has introduced the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 8, 2024

Commenting on the outlook for 2024, Chris Williamson, Chief Business Economist at S&P Global Market Intelligence noted in part: “ Given current order book trends, the overall picture from the survey is one of supply exceeding demand for many goods, which points to downside risks to production, employment and prices as we head into 2024.”

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