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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Manufacturing Procurement Optimal Sourcing Manufacturing Global 52

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. © Copyright 2024, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. No financial details were shared regarding this acquisition.

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QAD

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Updated: February 15, 2024 Published: March 25, 2021 If I think back to my childhood days and recall the shopping experience for food & beverage products, my first thoughts are about local grocery stores and smaller neighborhood specialty shops. The consumer has driven the market and for the most part always will.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 5, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights of reported February 2024 global and regional production and supply chain PMI indices. Overall, global activity reportedly showed signs of increased production output for consumer goods production levels but continued muted growth for intermediate supply network and investment goods production levels.

Manufacturing Procurement 59

Manufacturing Procurement Global United Kingdom Purchasing Skills 59

ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 25, 2022

If you’re in the consumer goods sector , seasonality affects items like pumpkin carvers, or food products, like Peeps. By limiting expedited shipping to fill in inventory holes and avoiding a glut of left-over seasonal goods, you’re not reducing storage and logistics costs and freeing up capital. last year).

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

That board reportedly made recommendations that included 24 percent wage increases during the period from 2020 thru 2024 with a 14.1 Various industry associations that include agriculture, consumer goods and bulk materials are collectively warning of the economic blow of a rail stoppage. economy upwards of $2 billion per day.

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Purchasing Training Negotiating Skills Agile and Lean Supply Chain Supply Chain Planning 52