Intelligent Audit

JANUARY 9, 2023

According to Freightos , China-North America trade lane rates fell more than 40% YoY. . Walmart to Expand Drone Delivery in Arizona, Florida, Texas. With competition for fast shipping continuing to escalate, mega-retailer Walmart is partnering with DroneUp to expand drone delivery. 15 press release.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 7, 2022

One of the more concerning areas at this time is that of China , where one of the most troubling outbreaks of COVID-19 infections, and consequent containment policies from China ’s regulators, continue to impede trucking transportation, ocean input and export movements. US Logistics Index.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 12, 2019

Is it worth overnighting that item from China just to make it to the middle of the desert in Arizona for a photo shoot? The challenge we’ve had to come to terms with is a simple but not easy-to-answer question: How much is that really worth?

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

As Tesla continues its strategies for aggressively seizing market share by reducing prices, and with China based producers poised to export innovative EV vehicles globally, this industry has a good amount of challenges to address in the coming months. Instead, the EV segment remains challenged, and so is this industry’s supply networks.

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Stord

MARCH 31, 2019

This facility, located in Goodyear, Arizona, supports 40% of the co-op’s stores. Per the research, most of this growth will take place in Asia-Pacific countries like China, Japan, and South Korea. Approximately half of Nike’s Chinese New Year Collection in 2018 was produced under the Express Lane program. Department of Energy.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 8, 2022

The overall takeaway from the July data was that global production momentum had begun to stagnate and in some regions such as the Eurozone, Taiwan, and to some extent , certain manufacturing regions of China, PMI values had reached contraction levels. . Global Supply Chain Pressure Index. Additional Data- U.S. Logistics Managers Index.

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Other issues, such as PFAS regulations, China-Taiwan relations, and ESG regulations, are still hurdles to a more robust global semiconductor supply chain. In July, TSMC had to postpone the plant opening in Arizona until 2025 due to labor shortages. However, this doesn’t mean the high-tech industry is in the clear.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 15, 2020

Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, writes, “The coronavirus has disrupted U.S. ”[1] He adds, “Dependence on China for their manufacturing has put small and midsize businesses in jeopardy. China tariff fight.” Hitendra Chaturvedi, a professor at the Supply Chain Department of W.P.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 3, 2022

This index complies a data set of 2 chosen variables for each of the economies of the Eurozone , China , Japan, South Korea , Taiwan, the United Kingdom and the United States. The Caixin China General Manufacturing PMI® , which is generally weighted toward smaller private manufacturers, reportedly rose 1.3 Federal Bank of New York.

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NC State SCRC

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In fact, building a domestic chip industry would be a multi-year initiative, and if China did invade Taiwan, the impact on the overall supply chain would be immediate and would shut down the entire global economy. Visitors to China have downplayed the likelihood of an attack on Taiwan. They have tried but failed.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

An Arizona bill that would shield warehouse workers in the state from “dangerous quotas” has gained the support of the Teamsters Union, even as several other states have already passed similar legislation. The bill has currently been assigned to the Arizona House Rules Committee and awaits a hearing. or Europe.

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BlueYonder

JULY 7, 2017

A Moby Mart prototype is already in use in Shanghai, thanks to a collaborative effort between Hefei University in China and the Switzerland-based company Wheelys. Glenn McDonald reports on The Moby Mart, an autonomous and unstaffed mobile retail space that will drive itself to you. Seem too far off in the future?

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Talking Logistics

MAY 10, 2019

Only yesterday I graduated from college, bought a bicycle and cycled cross country, then headed out to Arizona to begin life again. Only yesterday she was born, me heading out to bring her home from the hospital. It seems like only yesterday, not years, that I was a kid myself playing stickball and bathing in the johnny pump on President St.

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BlueYonder

JULY 7, 2017

A Moby Mart prototype is already in use in Shanghai, thanks to a collaborative effort between Hefei University in China and the Switzerland-based company Wheelys. Glenn McDonald reports on The Moby Mart, an autonomous and unstaffed mobile retail space that will drive itself to you. Seem too far off in the future?

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RFgen

MARCH 22, 2015

billion in Vietnam and China. Arizona Chemical Spill: Hazardous material and chemical spills are dangerous events, as seen last May in Southeast Phoenix at an Intel plant. The estimated revenue impact cost those along the supply chain $1.5 An estimated $900 million was lost due to the tragic event.

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RFgen

MARCH 22, 2015

billion in Vietnam and China. Arizona Chemical Spill: Hazardous material and chemical spills are dangerous events, as seen last May in Southeast Phoenix at an Intel plant. The estimated revenue impact cost those along the supply chain $1.5 An estimated $900 million was lost due to the tragic event.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 23, 2021

TuSimple plans driverless truck tests in Arizona later this year. Supply chain disruptions such as the US – China trade war, increased demand during the pandemic, and most recently, the Suez Canal lockage, has caused an international shortage of shipping containers. Save Mart kicks off pilot of shelf-scanning robots. CN offers $33.7

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 28, 2022

Shippers wary of container shortages as China nears Lunar New Year holiday. Some of these workers come from Mexico daily to jobs in places like Arizona and California for the production of leafy greens at this time of year. Walmart makes an investment in vertical farming start-up Plenty. Vaccine mandates could hit fresh produce market.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

China slowed production of aluminum and other energy-intensive metals in 2021 in an effort to reduce carbon emissions, leaving primary production in the country 1.2 Natural gas prices in Europe and curbs on exports from Russia and China are expected to keep fertilizer in high demand through 2023, which will lower crop yields.

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20Cube Logistics

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Even you are not an ardent follower of new technical advancements there is still a good chance that you have heard about the concept of autonomous vehicles. In recent times, these have received a lot of attention in the technology world as big players like Google and Apple have started taking a keen interest in making it a reality.

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Elementum

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Add in the issues with China: shut down because of Covid, so how do we get our goods in a timely manner? I also mentioned the situation in China, where with a Zero Covid policy we’re shutting down an entire city. At Intel we’re trying to keep pace with this demand from a manufacturing perspective. How do you manage that?

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Elementum

AUGUST 31, 2022

Add in the issues with China: shut down because of Covid, so how do we get our goods in a timely manner? I also mentioned the situation in China, where with a Zero Covid policy we’re shutting down an entire city. At Intel we’re trying to keep pace with this demand from a manufacturing perspective. How do you manage that?

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Kinaxis

MAY 24, 2018

I just returned from the highly engaging and inspiring Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. In China, cake derived from the waste water sludge from Pantene and Head & Shoulders is being used as raw material to make bricks by a local company.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

But the sales person tells you, “I can find you a small at the store in Phoenix Arizona, and will have them ship it to you free of charge…you should get it in two days.” Think about this scenario: you walk into a Macy’s, find a popular shirt you like, and they just sold out of the last small (your size).

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Resilinc

JULY 20, 2021

In 1983, Tom Linton took a ferry from Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China, then bounced along a dirt road in a van to reach a factory in Shenzhen that offered lower costs for the parts he sought. Vakil added that the United States is already behind China in Latin American logistics investments.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 28, 2021

This has prompted Intel and TSMC to begin development of fab plants in Arizona. Semiconductor lead-times have gone from several weeks to six months or more; automotive companies have been shut down due to lack of chips. And the older brother of speed is visibility.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

As just one example of the criticality of semiconductors, China spends more money on importing semiconductors than oil. Based on the deteriorating relations between China and the US, this is a problem. China considers Taiwan a province of greater China. TSMC is spending $40 billion to build two fabs in Arizona.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 11, 2023

One of the things highlighted by the pandemic was the danger of relying too heavily on China’s manufacturing sector. This realization, coupled with China’s more aggressive foreign policy and its growing domestic authoritarianism, has prompted talk about America decoupling its economy from China’s. ”[2].

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

” Rather than trying to define supply chain management, Eddie Davila, a Senior Lecturer and Undergraduate Program Director at Arizona State’s W. Carey School of Business, explains what it entails. ”[4] Many of the policies and actions of the current U.S.

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Material Handling & Logistics

AUGUST 2, 2018

If the end market is Europe or China,” then “you’re going to want to move it outside the U.S. When the Tempe, Arizona-based ISM started tracking respondents’ feedback on trade concerns back in March, about 32% of the general comments were related to tariffs, Fiore said. or make it in Canada or make it in Mexico,” Fiore said. “If

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Zipline Logistics

JUNE 23, 2020

percent at the Arizona-Mexico border in the same period, to $2.62 The critical import locations were reeling from the effects of the Trump Administration’s trade war with China when the virus first broke out last winter. percent on average from Week 19 to Week 20, which ended May 17, rising to $2.58 Rates rose 10.1

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NC State SCRC

JUNE 25, 2020

As the number of COVID cases continues to escalate exponentially in states like Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Arizona, and Texas, we are likely going to see new emerging shortages in these states as well.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Dan Gillmor ( @dangillmor ), co-founder of the News Co/Lab at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, notes, “The re-emergence of public bigotry has nothing to do with technology, except to the extent that bigots use it to promote their malignant goals.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

JANUARY 25, 2022

Intel, based in Santa Clara, California , announced plans last year to spend $20 billion for two new factories in Arizona. Intel also has plants in Ireland, Israel, Vietnam and China. It’s also pitching for European subsidies to build a big plant somewhere within the European Union and last month said it will invest $7.1

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Resilinc

AUGUST 30, 2022

Most unhappy about the CHIPS Act is the Chinese semiconductor industry association, which—along with the Chinese government and media—denounced the act for violating fair trade principles and discriminating against China’s chip industry. Hynix are rethinking “their exposure to China.” 28-nm chips—for 10 years.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 26, 2023

According to author Charles Mann , economic trade between China, Europe, and the Americas can be traced back hundreds of years to the summer of 1571. Cold-eyed, globe-trotting traders, they are from opposite ends of the earth: Spain and China. China war that would make Ukraine look like a neighborhood dust-up.”[2]

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