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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Freightos

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

More Resources Home February 28, 2024 Update The Freightos Weekly Update helps you stay on top of the latest developments in international freight by giving you the rundown on the latest economic data, ocean and air demand trends, rate data – and anything else impacting the market. Europe weekly prices fell 8% to $2.74/kg.

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Freightos

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

More Resources Home February 22, 2024 Update The Freightos Weekly Update helps you stay on top of the latest developments in international freight by giving you the rundown on the latest economic data, ocean and air demand trends, rate data – and anything else impacting the market. Europe weekly prices fell 15% to $2.97/kg.

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Freightos

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

More Resources Home February 7, 2024 Update The Freightos Weekly Update helps you stay on top of the latest developments in international freight by giving you the rundown on the latest economic data, ocean and air demand trends, rate data – and anything else impacting the market. Europe weekly prices fell 1% to $3.12/kg.

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Freightos

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

More Resources Home February 13, 2024 Update The Freightos Weekly Update helps you stay on top of the latest developments in international freight by giving you the rundown on the latest economic data, ocean and air demand trends, rate data – and anything else impacting the market. Europe weekly prices increased 13% to $3.51/kg.

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Freightos

JANUARY 10, 2024

More Resources Home January 10, 2024 Update The Freightos Weekly Update helps you stay on top of the latest developments in international freight by giving you the rundown on the latest economic data, ocean and air demand trends, rate data – and anything else impacting the market. Europe weekly prices fell 38% to $1.86/kg.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 14, 2024

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides highlights of the ASCM Supply Chain Professional 2024 Salaries and Careers Global Report released this week. The 2024 report represents the 7 th consecutive year. Reportedly over 5,000 respondents from North America and Europe participated in this year’s survey which was conducted during February.

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Freightos

JANUARY 3, 2024

More Resources Home January 3, 2024 Update The Freightos Weekly Update helps you stay on top of the latest developments in international freight by giving you the rundown on the latest economic data, ocean and air demand trends, rate data – and anything else impacting the market. Europe weekly prices fell 25% to $2.98/kg.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 4, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides readers and clients with a further installment in our global supply chain assessment series in providing highlights on reported May 2024 global PMI activity levels. Rates of manufacturing contraction eased across Europe and in Japan. United States Among major regions, the two followed indices of U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 3, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides readers a further installment in our global supply chain assessment series in providing highlights on reported April 2024 global PMI activity levels. Commenting on the April data, Bennett Parrish, Global Economist at J.P. Europe remained weak with eight nations in continued production contraction.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 19, 2023

More Resources Home December 19, 2023 Update The Freightos Weekly Update helps you stay on top of the latest developments in international freight by giving you the rundown on the latest economic data, ocean and air demand trends, rate data – and anything else impacting the market. Europe weekly prices increased 30% to $4.78/kg.

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Multichannel Merchant

OCTOBER 14, 2022

A search of open positions including the term “fulfillment” on TikTok’s LinkedIn page turns up 62 results worldwide on Thursday, with a mix of operations titles (logistics, fulfillment, supply chain) and ecommerce roles (procurement specialists, merchant development, seller governance and vendor program managers).

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 8, 2023

This week, European and international business media is reporting that Europe’ s economy entered into recession in the first quarter of this year. According to reporting by The Wall Street Journal , sizable changes to data from Germany, Ireland and Finland prompted the revision. What occurred in Europe can possibly occur elsewhere.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The report’s authors indicated that data broken down by production sector reflected that deteriorating conditions were confined to intermediate and investment goods industries. Commenting on the October data, Bennett Parrish, Global Economist at J.P. and Europe. percent in 2024. This index has now remained below the 50.0

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The report’s cited data from the Freightos Baltic Index indicates that shipment of a 40-foot container from China to the U.S. A container shipment from China to Europe is down 42 percent. West Coast is now averaging $5,400 per container, down 60 percent from the start of this year. Added Perspectives.

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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. Europe prices decreased.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 4, 2024

The report further indicated that Anthropic has committed to spend upwards of $4 billion on Amazon’s various Cloud infrastructure, data management software applications or custom graphics processor chips over the next five years. The deal reportedly will further enhance Oracle’s logistics software deployment capabilities across Europe.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 14, 2023

Everstream ranked number three in the data science category for its application of AI and predictive analytics to global supply chain risk. The tech provider has added a deeper set oof meteorology and climate science data to provide customers with weather and climate focused risk factors. million in Series A financing.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 11, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights reports indicating that Europe based Airbus will double China based aircraft final assembly output by 2024. According to Aviation Week data, Chinese airlines have either direct orders or lessor agreements for a total 519 Airbus commercial aircraft. With trade tensions among the U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 4, 2023

On a regional basis, Europe reportedly remained a principal drag on global factory output, along with contracting output in Japan and the United Kingdom. Commenting on the November data, Bennett Parrish, Global Economist at J.P. The S&P Global India Manufacturing PMI® rose from an eight month low level of 55.5 in November.

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C3 Solutions

JULY 30, 2020

It's About the Data. Consumer data provider Nielsen refers to this as 'frictionless commerce", or giving shoppers, "zero resistance from discovery to assessment to shopping to payment to fulfillment…. It's About the Data. That's the bottom line, regardless of how you get the inventory data you need to fulfill orders.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

From our lens, the August data further reflects ongoing shifts in production sourcing within specific industry sectors. The August data indicated that Greece and Ireland were the only two countries to record production improvements during August. Commenting on the August data, Timothy R. The reported August value was 43.5,

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

According to industry data, five of the six most sold vehicles in July were electric-powered models. with commercial volume operations by the end of 2024. Developments concerning automotive and commercial electric or hybrid powered vehicle producers, and their strategic sourcing and production moves, continue at a rapid pace.

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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. However, the published index indicated expansion level was rather mild, and was missing PMI data from South Korea which experienced a slight PMI contraction. The February 2024 reading of 50.3

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Garvis technology is aimed to provide planners with control of user-trainable, transparent AI for navigating the ever-changing real-world data. They can further observe and analyze forecast changes leveraging large language models (LLMs) while staying within the guardrails of data security provided via a Microsoft Azure platform.

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SupplyShift

JUNE 2, 2021

These consumers can spot greenwashing from a mile away and are demanding complete transparency and data from brands to back up their ESG claims. . Deloitte’s 10th Annual Chief Procurement Officer Survey mirrors this shift in priorities. Investment and ESG in the Public and Private Market. In many ways, he was eerily prescient.

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Freightos

JANUARY 24, 2024

More Resources Home January 24, 2024 Update The Freightos Weekly Update helps you stay on top of the latest developments in international freight by giving you the rundown on the latest economic data, ocean and air demand trends, rate data – and anything else impacting the market. Europe weekly prices fell 6% to $3.34/kg.

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SupplyShift

JUNE 2, 2021

These consumers can spot greenwashing from a mile away and are demanding complete transparency and data from brands to back up their ESG claims. Deloitte’s 10th Annual Chief Procurement Officer Survey mirrors this shift in priorities. In many ways, he was eerily prescient. But this does not make ESG reporting any less important.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The company’s purchases continue to add new wind and solar projects on the grids that power operations, including Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers, Amazon fulfillment centers, and physical stores around the world. Assuming this really is the end of the road for Brady, it was certainly a great ride for football fans.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

But, before we dig into the data – let’s start on a positive note: Supply Chain Statistics Show Challenges, but the Industry Remains Resilient. Automotive News Europe ). In response to the Ukraine invasion, Europe’s wholesale gas price surged by 69%. Russia supplies almost 40% of the natural gas supply for Europe.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 12, 2024

Background Prediction Four within the Ferrari Consulting and Research Group’s 2024 Predictions in Global Supply Chains , available for complimentary downloading in our Research Center , represented our belief that the increased labor activism that occurred in 2023 will continue this year, but with different nuances. East Coast ports.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

More Resources Home November 28, 2023 Update The Freightos Weekly Update helps you stay on top of the latest developments in international freight by giving you the rundown on the latest economic data, ocean and air demand trends, rate data – and anything else impacting the market. Europe prices (FBX11 Weekly) fell 6% to $1,211/FEU.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 9, 2024

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group through its affiliate the Supply Chain Matters blog shares samples of individual prediction snapshots that will be included in our Annual 2024 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains Research Advisory publishing later this month. Added Evidence Data According to U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group through its affiliate the Supply Chain Matters blog provides an overview of our 2024 annual prediction themes for industry and global supply chains. Europe ’s economy on the other hand has been challenged by contracted spending and at or near recessionary conditions among various countries.

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Freightos

MARCH 6, 2024

More Resources Home March 6, 2024 Update The Freightos Weekly Update helps you stay on top of the latest developments in international freight by giving you the rundown on the latest economic data, ocean and air demand trends, rate data – and anything else impacting the market. Europe prices (FBX11 Weekly) fell 1% to $4,501/FEU.

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Resilinc

MARCH 12, 2024

In 2023—if it wasn’t already—geopolitics became top of mind for every procurement professional. This year, managers and procurement professionals must stay incredibly diligent when it comes to the latest news. In this blog, we uncover the top geopolitical supply chain risks of 2024 so you can proactively prepare your supply chain.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 19, 2024

Skyrocketing Rates A January 12 th advisory from Container xChange indicated that the average spot rate quoted for China to Europe passage was about $5400 per 40 foot container, up from $1,500 the week earlier. Carriers have an agenda for needed revenue and profitability growth amid a growing glut of shipping capacity in 2024.

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