Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 29, 2022

Supply Chain Matters highlights a published report indicating that Honda Motor and LG Energy plan to jointly invest in a U.S. Today, The Wall Street Journal reported (Paid subscription required) that global auto maker Honda Motor , in partnership with supplier LG Energy Solution , have initiated plans to build a U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights this week’s announced COP28 climate agreement and the likely implications for industry and global supply chains. According to reporting by The Wall Street Journal ( Paid subscription ): “ In the run-up to this year’s conference, the U.S.,

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 14, 2016

The client leaned across the table and asked, “Is a customer-centric supply chain strategy the same as a demand-driven supply chain strategy?” Drawing from the Whiteboard: Building Customer-Centric Supply Chain Strategies. Customer-Centric Supply Chain Processes. ” I smiled.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 22, 2016

In my work with supply chain clients, teams change, business strategies shift and dramas unfold. All are haunted by the river that runs through the supply chain. On an ongoing basis I view supply chain strategy documents. Each supply chain is unique. What is it? Growth is a common theme.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 28, 2023

In its reporting, The Wall Street Journal indicated that the chip giant has been seeking to maximize subsidies and tax credits related to constructing and operating a U.S. Bob Ferrari © Copyright 2023, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. based facility over a five year period.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 5, 2016

For many years (1992-2001), I worked at Manugistics, a supply chain planning technology provider. It was refreshing for me today to talk to Adexa and see their fresh approach to supply chain planning. Today I am deep into writing reports for the Supply Chain Insights newsletter. I experienced many layoffs.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 22, 2024

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides a further update on the ongoing production quality, corporate reputation and other challenges that collectively surround commercial aircraft producer Boeing. We do so in the lens of supply chain management and manufacturing. All rights reserved.

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Resilinc

JUNE 15, 2021

2050 is a long way off, but the IMO also commits to incremental reductions as early as 2030. There is a need to have technically feasible, commercially viable, and safe zero-emission deep sea vessels entering the global fleet by 2030,” according to the Getting to Zero Coalition , whose main sponsor is the Global Maritime Forum.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Will the supply chain ever catch a break? With every link of the supply chain impacting businesses both large and small, keeping up with the globally disrupted supply chain evolution is a recipe for whiplash. Raw Material Shortages Are Affecting a Challenged Supply Chain.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 13, 2023

Background In early December of 2022, we called Supply Chain Matters reader attention to published reports acknowledging that consumer electronics giant Apple was accelerating actions to source some hardware production outside of China. What steps are we as an organization taking to manage current and future supply chain risks.

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Resilinc

MAY 24, 2022

This period of high prices and margins coincided with—and was partly supported by—supply chain disruptions, including the February 2021 deep freeze on the Texas Gulf Coast and port and shipping congestion in much of the world. German trade group VCI reports that petrochemicals prices rose by 21.6%

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 20, 2023

After reporting disappointing total production and vehicle delivery performance earlier this month , the formal reporting of Q3 quarterly financial performance disappointed on revenues, earnings, and on production and supply chain related challenges. percent in the year earlier quarter, and have declined since.

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Supply Chain Insights

MARCH 30, 2015

Recently, as I prepared to market our Supply Chain Insights Global Summit, I was introduced to Professor Pankaj Ghemawat’s concepts, and guess what? Alison Crawford, marketing director at Supply Chain Insights, is a self-diagnosed geek suffering from a mild case of adrenaline “junkyitis.” I continue to learn.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 26, 2022

In prior Supply Chain Matters automotive industry supply network commentaries, we have highlighted the challenges of innovative EV powered start-ups such as Tesla , Lucid Motors and Rivian Automotive. billion and introduce over 25 new vehicle models by 2030. Background. Bob Ferrari. . All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 3, 2023

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights global EV automaker Tesla ’s investor event held this week including product development, supply chain and production related connotations. Supply Chain Matters recently highlighted an announced incremental $3.6 Tesla sold and delivered upwards of 1.3

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Freight Plus

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Amazon promises 50% net-zero carbon shipments by 2030. In 30 years, I’ve never seen anything like this,” said BJ Patterson, chief executive of warehouse operator Pacific Mountain Logistics in San Bernardino, CA, told The Wall Street Journal. Dave Clark, SVP of Worldwide Operations at Amazon, made the pledge in a blog published Monday.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Earlier this year, the billionaire founder of Microsoft Bill Gates said in an interview with online news journal Quartz that governments should tax companies use of robots to “temporarily slow the spread of automation and to fund other types of employment.” But California is not the first to raise this idea.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Technology can have a significant impact on supply chains, but supply chain digitization still lags behind digitization of other areas of business across many industries. Still, there are several technologies that are transforming supply chains for the organizations that adopt them.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 26, 2016

In the last six months, in my travels, I have presented to supply chain teams in China, Belgium, France, Germany, Peru, Mexico, Netherlands, South Africa, Singapore, and the United Kingdom. I strongly feel that if I am going to cover the global supply chain that I need to experience it. A Personal Reflection.

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Resilinc

JANUARY 18, 2022

It was how the company handled its supply chain. While other car makers were shutting down factories because of the shortages, Toyota was nearly unaffected,” reported the Wall Street Journal in July 2021. It should be noted that Toyota wasn’t immune to supply chain disruptions, and its U.S. While Toyota’s U.S.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2016

Today’s supply chain processes are inside-out with a focus on orders and shipments. We have automated transactional data; but there are no systems available to take independent demand data (channel data_ and move it through a multi-tier supply chain planning system.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 25, 2023

And the average American family spends nearly $1900 a year on food they don’t eat, per one paper in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.” ” Everyone is a Stakeholder in the Food Waste Problem From growers to consumers, everyone in the food supply chain can help prevent food waste. UN’s FAO, U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 16, 2023

Supply Chain Matters provides a news capsule follow-up to previous commentaries and developments that we have provided to readers. As we highlighted on Supply Chain Matters at the time , a back and forth bidding war occurred with CN making a final sweetened offer to take the acquisition away from an announced deal with CP Rail.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 21, 2016

I will also pen my 95th report for this week’s Supply Chain Insight’s newsletter. We now reach 23,000 supply chain leaders globally with our newsletter and have over 50,000 views/month on Slideshare. We reviewed the orbit charts and progress of the recent Supply Chains to Admire Analysis for 2016.

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Resilinc

OCTOBER 19, 2021

That’s the prognosis from experts—including those at Resilinc—about the chaos that is swamping global supply chains and undercutting the economic recovery. Since January 1, Resilinc’s commodity tracking tool has alerted customers to more than 100 events that signaled or portended tightening supplies and rising prices for aluminum.

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Material Handling & Logistics

JUNE 25, 2018

Our look at the Top 25 (plus 4) Supply Chains of 2018 examines how the best companies in the world excel at managing their global supply chains. One of the most popular articles we’ve ever done is our look at analyst group Gartner’s annual ranking of the Top 25 Supply Chains. population in one day or less.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 23, 2021

As brands incorporate these new elements into their packaging strategy, they must re-evaluate their processes and solutions to ensure they can meet all the requirements which impact everything from artwork, production and printing to supply chain strategy.”[7] ”[8]. .”[9] … The No. ”[11].

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Resilinc

JANUARY 19, 2022

It was how the company handled its supply chain. While other car makers were shutting down factories because of the shortages, Toyota was nearly unaffected,” reported the Wall Street Journal in July 2021. It should be noted that Toyota wasn’t immune to supply chain disruptions, and its U.S. While Toyota’s U.S.

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6 River Systems

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Technology can have a significant impact on supply chains, but supply chain digitization still lags behind digitization of other areas of business across many industries. Still, there are several technologies that are transforming supply chains for the organizations that adopt them.

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Resilinc

JANUARY 17, 2022

It was how the company handled its supply chain. While other car makers were shutting down factories because of the shortages, Toyota was nearly unaffected,” reported the Wall Street Journal in July 2021. Toyota wasn’t immune to supply chain disruptions, and its U.S. Was it Toyota’s marketing?

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights Airbus and Boeing Q3-2023 commercial aircraft delivery and orders performance along with abilities to meet 2023 production milestones. In the specific case of the Airbus A320 neo narrow aisle family , backlogs now extend to the year 2030. All rights reserved. All rights reserved.

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Resilinc

AUGUST 24, 2021

West, momentum to reduce the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions produced by trucks—the backbone of logistics and supply chains—will continue to grow. The rulemaking is expected to take three years and wouldn’t affect truck sales until 2029 or 2030. This trend likely won’t bring short-term changes to supply chain management.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 24, 2022

Life for the supply chain leader is more complex. We are living in a world of rich supply chain case studies. Each day, the Wall Street Journal features a supply chain failure as front-page news. Why Is There No Economy of Scale in Supply Chain Acquisitions? Baby formula. Semiconductors.

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USC Consulting Group

MARCH 3, 2020

Germany is hoping that by 2030, approximately two-thirds of its energy will derive from sources like wind and solar. Tied with Germany, receiving 75.5 points out of a possible 100, was Italy, followed by France (73.5), the U.K. (73), 73), and Japan (67). The least efficient were natural gas (38%), oil (31%) and coal (29%).

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NC State SCRC

MAY 11, 2023

However, the general public typically doesn’t understand how supply chains work, and many don’t even know how their box of cereal ends up on their grocery store shelf. The IEA predicts about a seven fold increase of such “green metals” by 2030. Copper and nickel would require $250-300bn in capex before 2030.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 16, 2021

Faced with computer chip shortages and other supply chain issues, on 24 February, President Biden signed E.O. 14017, directing a whole-of-government review to assess vulnerabilities in, and strengthening the resilience of, critical supply chains. supply chains. 100-Day Report Findings.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 3, 2016

Most of the Integrated Supply Chain Planning Projects Generate Rubbish. At each location, the team wrung their hands as they told me their stories of “ Integrated Supply Chain Planning.” I can count the number of companies that are good at supply chain planning on one hand. Get Started.

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