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Pushing the Supply Chain Reset Button

Supply Chain Shaman

The answers lie in investments in supplier development teams, the simplification of the bill of materials and product platforms, and analytics to forecast requirements based on consumption. My forecast is a lumpy road to 2023 and port-related supply chain disruptions for at least a year. Prepare for a slog. Are the port issues over?

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Supply Chain Matters COVID-19 and Ukraine Conflict News Capsule Update- October 25 2022

Supply Chain Matters

Trillion by 2030. . Rather, the plan seems to be the production of 90 million iPhone14 units which was in-line with Apple’s original forecast this summer. The Wall Street Journal Logistics Report indicated late last week that: “ the backup of container ships off the Southern California coast that was at the heart of the U.S.

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Trends 2021: Machine Learning

Enterra Insights

Dialani notes, “The Internet of Things has been a quickly developing segment recently with economic analyst Transforma Insights forecasting that the worldwide IoT market will develop to 24.1 billion devices in 2030, producing $1.5 trillion in income. The utilization of machine learning is progressively interlaced with IoT.

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Not So Happy Earth Day

Enterra Insights

According to Bloomberg reporters, “There are cost-effective methods of cutting carbon that together could meet half the 2030 emissions target. coastlines are forecast to rise on average by about a foot by 2050, surging with meltwater from ice sheets and glaciers as a result of climate change. feet, compared with 2020. .”[8]

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SAP to Expand Cloud Presence with Acquisition of Ariba

Supply Chain Network

Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Ariba has approximately 2,600 employees. Germany: +49(0)89 2030 3201. Words such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “expect,” “forecast,” “intend,” “may,” “plan,” “project,” “predict,” “should” and “will” and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 18 – 24)

Logistics Viewpoints

FedEx is now forecasting per-share earnings before certain accounting adjustments of between $18.25 for the fiscal year that started in June, down from a prior forecast of $18.90 FedEx is raising wages to try to attract more workers and paying premiums for weekend shifts. and $19.50 issued in July.

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Ethical sourcing risks pose challenge to electric vehicle market

Resilinc

But the market forecasts for BEVs—and for batteries like those in Tesla’s PowerWall that will be needed to store intermittent solar and wind power—portend a vast increase in demand for not just cobalt but other critical minerals, including copper, nickel, lithium, graphite, manganese, and rare earth elements (REE).