Supply Chain Matters

JULY 28, 2023

advanced chip fabrication complex in Arizona until 2025, a year later than previously planned. In a separate published report, Bloomberg opined that: “ The hiccups in Arizona, however, call into question whether TSMC can make chips abroad as efficiently as back home. from Taiwan to assist in facility planning and layout.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 22, 2023

The Logistics Managers Index Report® , compiled by researchers at Arizona State University, Colorado State University, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rutgers University and the University of Nevada Reno , and in conjunction with the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), reported an April 2023 value of 50.9,

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Multichannel Merchant

JANUARY 3, 2023

In unrelated aerial news from Amazon, the company has begun making drone deliveries in Texas and Washington state, as has (no coincidence) Walmart, in Texas, Florida and Arizona , according to various media. billion, which is $48.6 billion more than in 2019.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 8, 2024

According to multiple reports, TSMC now has plans to invest upward of $65 billion into the design, construction and operation of three semiconductor fab facilities in Phoenix, Arizona. The first had been delayed with skills shortages and construction setbacks , and is now reportedly scheduled for volume production in the first half of 2025.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

28% of global retailers have tried to find alternative sourcing options due to supply chain issues (RetailNext, 2020). Source: Consultancy.UK. Image source: Fortune. The auto industry makes up less than 9% of chip demand by revenue, and that figure is expected to increase by 10% per year until 2025. Consultancy UK).

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 17, 2023

Reportedly, production of wide aisle aircraft was sold out through 2025. Noted in the report was that in the fall of 2022 on the day after the Thanksgiving holiday, GE dispatched 12 machinists from its Rutland Vermont facility to assist a supplier in Arizona that had skilled labor shortages and could not add a second work shift.

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