Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Supply Chain Matters blog announces the publishing of our latest recorded podcast episode: What Should Supply Chain Leaders Expect in 2024. Podcast Perspective Multi-industry supply chain management teams are now turning their attention to plans for the year 2024. All rights reserved.

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MAY 24, 2024

The indexes will feature in future Empire State Manufacturing and Business Leaders surveys, the bank said. Yellen said on Tuesday that the United States and Europe needed to work together to push back against China’s excess industrial capacity, warning that a wave of cheap Chinese exports represents a grave threat to the global economy.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 28, 2024

This funding is reportedly contingent on preconditions which include a delayed filing of its 2023 annual report with regulators and continued negotiations with an established auto maker on a joint manufacturing agreement related to North America based production. Workers After securing new ratified labor agreements among three major U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

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MAY 10, 2024

Robotic arms Robin and Sparrow were designed and manufactured at its Robotics Innovation Hub near Boston and help sort customer orders. This has forced ocean carriers to avoid the sea and take a much longer route to Europe around the southern tip of Africa. In the first quarter of 2024, trade between Mexico and the U.S.

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Resilinc

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Dive into the top supply chain trends of 2024. In 2024 and going forward, supply chain managers must stay on top of the latest geopolitical developments and truly understand where products and parts originate in order to protect supply chain resilience. Don’t wait for a cyber attack to happen in 2024.

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Supply Chain Movement

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

European companies are starting to produce more in Europe, closer to their markets, for reasons of agility and sustainability. And the decline in transshipments of ore and coal is clearly linked with sustainability and with the problems of the German car industry, which is losing ground to Tesla and Chinese producers like BYD in Europe.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The most significant delays are evident in shipments originating from Asian ports destined for Western Europe and the East Coast of the United States. Infor, because of Infor Nexus transportation and visibility solution, has excellent data on global shipping. The Red Sea crisis impacts global supply Chains GlobalFoundries Receives $1.5

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 7, 2023

In the not so optimistic category, the bank revised its 2024 global growth forecast to 2.4 The current forecast for 2024 growth is 0.8 That statement portends stubbornly high interest rates will likely extend into 2024. percent, down from the January estimate of 2.7 China is now forecasted to grow 5.6 percent in 2022.

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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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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Officials described the actions, which include charges against eight Chinese companies accused of advertising, manufacturing and distributing precursor chemicals for synthetic opioids like fentanyl, as the latest effort in their fight against the deadliest overdose crisis in U.S. Postal Service and Amazon, UPS and FedEx dominate the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

More recently, the massive scale of China’s solar-manufacturing operations has become an advantage, as it attracts talent, research money and ecosystems of suppliers. More recently, the massive scale of China’s solar-manufacturing operations has become an advantage, as it attracts talent, research money and ecosystems of suppliers.

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QAD

APRIL 6, 2021

Here’s how packaging manufacturing has evolved during the pandemic. The level of complexity in packaging manufacturing has increased rapidly, and in order to manage it, so has the wider use of digital technology. E-commerce in the US is forecasted to reach 24% by 2024. Digital is Here to Stay. There’s no going back.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 15, 2023

We also saw a lot of technological advances in transportation, warehousing, supply chain planning, robotics, and last mile delivery, just to name a few. I have learned so much from our sponsors and readers, both through their commentaries and user conferences, and look forward to more of the same in 2024.

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OCTOBER 13, 2023

The deal — which would fall short of a legally binding agreement — seeks to settle a dispute that started when President Donald Trump slapped tariffs on metals imports from Europe, citing risks to national security. based UP.Labs to develop six startups over three years that focus on the future of transportation.

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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. Manufacturing Employment Impacts Across Europe and the United Kingdom , a significant period of production contraction has led to added manufacturing job losses.

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Resilinc

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Ships are avoiding Egypt’s Suez Canal, the shortest maritime route from Europe to Asia and one of the world’s most important waterways, which accounts for about 12% of the world’s shipping traffic. Hapag-Lloyd: Shipping and container transportation company. Shipping and container transportation company. Will reroute shipments.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Increased Shipping Costs, Delays, and Transportation Issues. 49% of respondents were from the manufacturing industry, 16% from the mechanical engineering sector, and 11% from the automotive market. Automotive News Europe ). In response to the Ukraine invasion, Europe’s wholesale gas price surged by 69%. Consultancy UK).

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Supply Chain Matters once again highlights some positive news for global supply chain management teams, specifically transportation and logistics related teams. A container shipment from China to Europe is down 42 percent. Our research arm recently pointed out this transportation trending in a mid-year assessment commentary.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 15, 2024

Additionally, Amazon’s logistics services include transportation and warehousing solutions, allowing businesses of all sizes to leverage Amazon’s expertise and resources in streamlining their supply chain and improving their delivery capabilities. Billion US Dollars), followed by Europe and potentially Asia.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 11, 2023

With that stated, the agency references concerns for “ the persistent manufacturing slowdown ” as a suggestion that labor markets and activity will soften in 2024. Tighter credit conditions are thus impacting housing markets and rates of business bankruptcies, especially across Europe and the U.S. percent in 2024.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Tesla Initiates Further Wage Hikes for Hourly Workers In mid-December global-based electric vehicle designer and producer Tesla informed production workers at the company’s gigafactory in Sparks, Nevada that certain set-rate hourly workers will be granted upwards of 10 percent wage increases in early January 2024. up to $34.50 up to $34.50

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 19, 2023

According to GEP, the April numbers show that while global demand for raw materials, commodities, and components remains subdued, it is much improved from the trough in December 2022, indicating some stability in the face of consistently high interest rates and a global manufacturing sector under intense pressure. has pledged $3.4

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 12, 2022

Closely held Geneva, Switzerland based global ocean container shipping firm MSC Mediterranean Shipping has reportedly agreed to acquire the African transport and logistics business of Bollore SA for a reported 5.7 B2C Europe ), a logistics and online customer fulfillment provider serving mostly Western European based customers.

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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. The Announcement Commercial aircraft designer and manufacturer Airbus announced plans t o double the production of the company’s final assembly production capabilities within China.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Background Within our research arm’s previously published industry and global supply chains predictions advisory published at the start of this year, we predicted that manufacturers would up their efforts this year in restoring more direct control and added resiliency in their direct materials component and outsourced manufacturing strategies.

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Freightera

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Freightera’s CEO, Eric Beckwitt Gives His Predictions on The Trends in Sustainability in 2024. 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.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

with commercial volume operations by the end of 2024. According to the report, Tesla intends to utilize a more environmentally friendly process for producing the battery friendly raw ore and ship that ore by truck or rail to Tesla’s various other battery manufacturing sites. or by free-trade agreement partners.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 4, 2024

The deal reportedly will further enhance Oracle’s logistics software deployment capabilities across Europe. © Copyright 2024, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. The existing 280 Flo consultants will be part of the Accenture Oracle Business Group. No financial terms were disclosed.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

AUGUST 27, 2020

We saw the greatest impact in Europe during the initial phase of lockdowns with the closing of some manufacturing. We may not be able to predict when a suitable vaccine will be ready, however, we can assume that unless government can manufacture their own supplies domestically, there could be limited supply points.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 8, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters posting we provide highlights of manufacturing and supply chain developments involving electric vehicle automotive producers at the 2022 mid-year point. An added challenge has been the ramp-up of new manufacturing facilities in Austin, Texas and Berlin Germany. Volkswagen. of FedEx Corp.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This facility, which will represent VW’s first battery production facility outside of Europe , is to be located in the city of St. Reports had indicated that that the government of Canada agreed to subsidies of upwards of C$13 billion over a ten year period in order to land this investment.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

And with passenger travel not expected to recover until 2024 , proactive solutions are needed to avoid current and upcoming disruptions. from October to November, as well as Europe to the U.S. Last mile planning will be especially important in countries where road or manufacturing infrastructure may be underdeveloped.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 9, 2020

” On the transportation and supply chain front, one trend in the U.S. Michael McGarry, chairman and CEO of PPG, reports, “Data from the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) reveals that underinvestment in U.S. ”[4]. In many ways, the economy is now driven by data.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 16, 2021

This was the 16 th Euro Championship, a quadrennial international men’s football championship of Europe. This victory marked Italy’s second major victory in an all-Europe championship this year, having won Eurovision 2021 in May as well. Of the 334 models, 281 are battery electric and 53 are fuel cell.

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