Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 30, 2024

Supply Chain Matters highlights added reports of headcount reductions occurring across various supply chain industry services sectors. According to today’s reporting by The Wall Street Journal (Paid Subscription), the cuts will be primarily targeted at management staff along with contract workers.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 25, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides key highlights and added supply chain and production perspectives on Tesla ’s recent report of Q1-2024 financial performance. billion, a reflection of increased price discounting and a building inventory of unsold vehicles. In its reporting, The Wall Street Journal characterized this performance as dismal.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 15, 2024

In what is being described as a shakeup, global EV auto maker Tesla has announced a ten percent global operational workforce reduction along with the departure of two other senior executives. He pointed to job cuts as necessary to reduce costs and increased productivity. All rights reserved.

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Freightos

APRIL 25, 2024

More Resources Home The Impact of Fast Fashion Giants On Air Cargo Eytan Buchman April 25, 2024 Navigating New Horizons: The Impact of Fast Fashion on Air Cargo Rates & Dynamics The intersection of fast fashion, globalized retail e-commerce, and air cargo logistics is coming to a head with Temu and Shein’s entrance to the US market.

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ivalua

MARCH 27, 2023

E-invoicing Mandate | France 2024 Ivalua Spend Management Insights [ivory-search] Wake Up AP, Before it’s Too Late! It’s already hit most Latin American countries, India, China and Italy, but the next big wave hits France in 2024. E-invoicing Mandate | France 2024 appeared first on Ivalua.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MAY 2, 2024

ERP trends 2024 – achieving business success through the use of innovative technologies Now that Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are firmly established, we expect to see a massive take-up of these technologies by manufacturers in 2024. Technologies like AI and cloud, among others, enhance supply chain visibility.

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Resilinc

APRIL 30, 2024

Prepare your business for the stormy seas of the 2024 hurricane season. Outlook for hurricane season 2024 This year, hurricane season starts June 1, 2024, and ends November 30, 2024, and will primarily affect the Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean Sea. What sets this year’s hurricane season apart?

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 19, 2024

growers want to earn as much as possible from their labors and consumers want to keep food prices low). Over the past decade, there’s been a growing drumbeat for companies to reduce their carbon emissions, leading many to set ambitious goals. The post National Ag Day 2024 first appeared on Enterra Solutions.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 30, 2024

Supply Chain Matters highlights an announcement by premium EV auto start-up Lucid Group calling for a six percent reduction in the company’s U.S. The move adds to other EV industry workforce related cutbacks due to muted market demand and increased price based competition. based workforce by 400 workers, the equivalent of 6 percent.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 7, 2024

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides highlights and perspectives regarding SAP SE’s 2024 annual Sapphire and North America ASUG customer conference held this week both as an in-person and live streamed event. Following are highlights, observations and summary thoughts involving the three different 2024 Sapphire keynotes.

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Freightos

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Despite the higher initial sea freight cost to the United States, this combination can ultimately deliver overall savings of 34 cents per kilogram when compared to Dubai…and a two day reduction in transit time. Here’s how the data stacks up, relying on data points from Freightos’ air and ocean data., kilogram to Europe.

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Freightos

MAY 23, 2024

More Resources Home Innovative Synergies: Logistics Tech Lessons from Other Industries Judah Levine May 23, 2024 Though the logistics and supply chain industry has made and continues to make a lot of progress in its digital transformation, it has a reputation for being part of the late majority or even a laggard in terms of digitalization.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 28, 2024

Marcello Pace commented, “We urgently needed a strategy to maximize margin and sell-through rates. Pace’s success in generating growth for PittaRosso through revolutionary AI was the foundation for his vision towards achieving a similarly transformative impact at Scarpe&Scarpe.

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Unleashed

APRIL 11, 2024

The Guardian reports that the Victoria Unboxed project will hope to eliminate invisible waste from supply chains by replacing cardboard produce boxes with reusable plastic crates. Get tactical with your sales strategy. Fractionally increase your product prices. Optimise your customer retention strategy.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 6, 2024

retailer Target’s recent reporting of Q4 and Fiscal 2024 financial and operational performance. based retailers would provide the best indicators of retail industry customer fulfillment trends including various changing strategies in inventory management and customer fulfilment efforts, along with restoring higher profitability levels.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 3, 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.

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Freightos

JUNE 11, 2024

More Resources Home June 11, 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) increased 23% to $6,163/FEU.

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Intelligent Audit

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The Inflation Reduction Act, signed in August, is designed to ease rising cost pressures for businesses and consumers. Its main intention is to curb inflation by reducing the federal deficit, lowering prescription drug prices, and investing in domestic energy production while promoting clean energy. Maybe, maybe not.

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 27, 2024

For those who use a Mac as their trusted companion in 2024, the hunt ends here. We ensure that the solutions recommended are well-suited for your Mac in 2024. It also reduces the learning curve and impacts the overall efficiency. However, another impactful factor is the affordability and flexibility in pricing.

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ThroughPut

JANUARY 2, 2024

The knowledge from this guide will boost your organization’s operational effectiveness, cutting costs and driving overall financial performance. JIT ensures materials are transported to the exact location at the precise time they are needed, enhancing efficiency by reducing the need to store materials before use.

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American Global Logistics

JANUARY 30, 2024

Doing this can give you an edge over your competitors when looking at the 2024 supply chain landscape. NLT February 28, 2024. Data is as of January 25, 2024.) Next, we’ll look at the Consumer Price Index. Data is as of January 11, 2024.) December’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) The BEA reported the CPI increased 0.3

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Freightos

MAY 28, 2024

More Resources Home May 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 prices (FBX11 Weekly) climbed 6% to $4,876/FEU.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 12, 2024

As a New England Patriots fan, this season was certainly disappointing, as everything seemed to go wrong, except for landing a top-3 draft pick in 2024. In 2023, Amazon experimented with new logistics strategies and technologies to quickly fulfill and deliver orders, and these changes paid off big. percent versus in 2022, where 17.6

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 24, 2024

The PromoAI tool is built on ToolsGroup’s patented and award-winning pricing algorithm, and introduces additional features and planning workflows to build scenarios to optimize every aspect of promotions. Current pricing customers report a 6% average growth in revenue and 15% growth in volume.

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Exiger Perspectives

MAY 15, 2024

Article | Key Takeways Gartner Event Encourages a ‘Rethink’ of Global Supply Chains Article | Key Takeways May 15, 2024 The annual Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo is always a great meeting of minds, and this year’s theme, “Rethink Supply Chain,” is an important one.

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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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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 2, 2024

Electric auto maker Tesla reported Q1-2024 vehicle production and deliveries which is being headlined as the first quarterly decline in operational performance since 2020. According to the published release , the EV auto maker produced a total of 433,000 vehicles in the first quarter of 2024, and delivered a total of 387,000 vehicles.

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Locus Robotics

MARCH 14, 2024

March 14, 2024 5 Top Takeaways from MODEX 2024 Mary Hart , Senior Content Marketing Manager The booths are down, the Georgia World Congress Center floors are quiet (until the next tradeshow), and the LocusBots are on their way home along with their human colleagues, but the energy and memories of MODEX 2024 remain high.

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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. The main benefits of accurate demand forecasts are: 1.

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EMERGE App

APRIL 5, 2024

The picture of wholesale distribution industry in 2024 The report from Research and Markets forecasts that the wholesale market size will reach $68,092.65 Understanding the right approach to survival in this industry in 2024 might be the best abundance now. 7 pointers that can help your business survive in 2024 and beyond 1.

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Freightos

MAY 15, 2024

More Resources Home May 15, 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. Asia-US East Coast prices (FBX03 Weekly) climbed 8% to $5,093/FEU.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 30, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights yet another automotive electric vehicle start-up having to initiate a significant headcount reduction in order to cut operating expenses. This start-up’s luxury class EV powered vehicles have starting prices north of $85,000 and are targeted to cater to discerning performance and luxury oriented buyers.

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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 prices (FBX11 Weekly) fell 2% to $4,587/FEU.

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Proxima

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Price was often the primary lever and measure of success and the determinant of the value procurement brought to the business. For example, whilst the price of many items has risen, shipping container rates have been hit with deflation and are now hovering below pre-covid levels. appeared first on Proxima.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2024

There is no replacement for the fuel burning jet engine and all of the emission reduction emphasis is entirely pinned on increasing the use of SAF. My 2024 predictions for these modes is that ocean shipping transformation will continue. My 2024 predictions for these modes is that ocean shipping transformation will continue.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 24, 2024

It will serve as a testing facility for other robotics designed to help reduce costs and increase productivity. The solar panels will reduce the building’s carbon footprint by approximately 4,100 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year. Import prices surged 0.9% Prices rose 0.4% following a previously reported 0.4%

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights a published advisory regarding an announced software maintenance price increase planned for SAP on-premise customers. This latest increase reportedly amounts to 5 percent predicated on a local consumer price index (CPI) rate.

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