Supply Chain Matters

JULY 28, 2023

In conjunction with the company’s report of disappointing Q2-2023 financial performance , TSMC has elected to push back the start of a planned $40 billion U.S. advanced chip fabrication complex in Arizona until 2025, a year later than previously planned. When semiconductor manufacturing first exited the U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2023

When it comes to running a company, when things break down executives have traditionally said “we need to improve our forecasting!” Unfortunately, most companies cannot, and will never be able to, consistently rely on highly accurate forecasts. It turns out the Super Bowl happened on February 12 th in Glendale, Arizona.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 21, 2022

To help, we analyze business results each year to understand which companies outperform on the balanced scorecard of growth, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) over the past ten years. We designed the Supply Chains to Admire Methodology to help companies define supply chain excellence.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 21, 2024

According to a White House briefing , Intel itself has plans to invest upwards of $100 billion to build and expand these semiconductor fab and supply network support facilities in Arizona, Ohio, New Mexico , and Oregon with the potential to create upwards of 30,000 jobs. It’s not going to come back in three to five years.”

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 27, 2021

As driver pay increases, so does the incidence of drivers jumping ship, switching companies for the next best payday. Deploying driverless vehicles could take a significant bite out of operating costs, considering that approximately 75% of company expenses are tied up in labor. Curiouser and Curiouser. In a word, it’s data.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Supply Chain Matters highlights published reports indicating that leading semiconductor fab and device manufacturer TSMC is eyeing a second fab production presence in the U.S. based fabrication facility. However, the report cautions that TSMC has not made a final decision relative to this announcement.

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Resilinc

OCTOBER 11, 2022

One of those voices is Hitendra Chaturvedi, professor of practice in supply chain management at Arizona State University’s W. It’s full of lively anecdotes, including many from his experience building a 3,000-employee appliance refurbishing company in his native India. Resilinc: What’s the current status of reshoring manufacturing?

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Major semiconductor customers and industry manufacturers, undertaking their own supply network resiliency evaluations, continue to elect to diversify fab production presence across major product demand regions. Apple CEO Tim Cook made the disclosure during an internal company meeting held in Germany as part of a European tour.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The ability to ramp up and sustain manufacturing output is a further challenge in order to generate needed cash to sustain operations. Rivian Automotive Last week, Rivian Automotive reported on the fourth quarter and full year financial performance that disappointed company investors. Loss from operations in Q4 totaled $1.58

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SCMDOJO

JULY 7, 2023

is an American electric vehicle manufacturer and automotive technology company which has emerged as a prominent player in the highly competitive automotive industry. With its manufacturing operations situated in Normal, Illinois, Rivian’s presence has had a profound impact on the local economy.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

75% of companies felt negative or strongly negative impacts on their business due to supply chain disruption ( Accenture ). It is estimated supply chain disruptions and inventory shortages affect 4% of inventory for some large companies, and 40% of inventory for smaller companies. Material Handling & Logistics ).

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

This report, Supply Chains to Admire , compares the progress of 200 companies within their respective peer groups on both performance and improvement. Supply Chain Improvement is based on the work that we completed with an Arizona State University Operations Research team to determine the Supply Chain Index. Bernstein & Co.,

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 7, 2021

I wanted to help companies drive step-changes in performance. My argument centered on the observation that as new technologies evolved, companies did a lift and shift. Companies want a definitive Return on Investment (ROI), limiting the opportunity to test and learn with new technologies. The approach was not as profitable.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 11, 2023

TSMC to Construct its First European Chip Fabrication Facility Industry leader Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s (TSMC) announced this week that the Taiwan based producer will construct its first European based chip facility that will be located in Germany. legislation, hence the delay.

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Supply Chain Insights

MAY 5, 2014

Nine out of ten companies are stuck. But, with the help of the operations research team at Arizona State University (ASU), we now think that we have it right. It is our goal for this methodology to become the measuring stick for supply chain leaders in every industry, independent of company size, to judge supply chain performance.

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Resilinc

AUGUST 30, 2022

Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz criticized its $76 billion in subsidies and tax incentives for semiconductor manufacturers to build domestic chip fabs, saying that the act gives taxpayer funds too freely to profitable corporations. “The soonest we can expect to see the new law’s impact on U.S.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

by CJ Wehlage The Supply Chain Insights annual conference was held on September 10-11, 2014 at the Phoenician in Scottsdale, Arizona. While there was always passionate discussions on companies and metrics, the end goal was to raise awareness of supply chain as a practice. You can see it with the high tech companies on the list.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 19, 2014

Instead, what I observed when I looked at the data, was that most companies that I had worked with (in my role as an industry analyst, I had worked with over 300) were going backwards on margin and inventory turns. I found that nine out of ten companies were stuck. “Ugh,” I said. It was an awakening. Why is this important?

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Manufacturing is core to the middle class and a healthy economy. The word digital is everywhere in their presentations– digital path to purchase, digital agriculture, and digital manufacturing. Too few companies understand the differences between syndicated data sources and the use of channel data. I give them credit.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 16, 2014

Despite two decades of advancement in supply chain technologies, companies are struggling to gain balance at the intersection of operating margin, inventory turns and case fulfillment. It takes more than one or two respondents from a company. The greatest gap is in the design of supplier and manufacturing networks.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

When I sat down to write the book, Bricks Matter, I believed that companies had used supply chain technologies to reduce operating margin and improve inventory turns. What I found was erratic results with many companies going backwards. In fact, I now know that nine out of ten companies are stuck. My Journey. I want to help.

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Resilinc

JANUARY 31, 2022

According to surveys conducted by EY in June 2020 and June 2021, the percentage of Eurozone companies considering re/nearshoring dropped from 83% to 23% for nearshoring and 20% for reshoring. manufacturing facilities. In Europe, FDI in manufacturing declined by 20% in 2020, according to EY. After declining 12.8%

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NC State SCRC

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Compounding these challenges is the fact that when such breakdowns do occur, they often originate within the deeper layers of a supply chain, spreading like a contagion throughout the broader buyer-supplier network and affecting downstream companies in unexpected ways. nodes”) comprising a manufacturer’s supply chain.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2012

Chuck has significant operational experience having served as the Chief Procurement officer for The Schwinn Bicycle Company, Ping Golf, Troy Built as well as a procurement officer for Maricopa County Arizona. Additionally Chuck has achieved significant results as a consultant for companies such as Media One.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Before I started doing this research, I believed procurement and manufacturing were aligned. While this is the case in 50% of the organizations, there are many organizations with large alignment gaps between finance/operations and procurement/manufacturing. Digital manufacturing is also a disruption. I was wrong.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 12, 2019

Editor’s Note: Today’s post is part of a new series we’re launching called “Practitioner Perspectives” — commentaries written by supply chain and logistics practitioners from manufacturing and retail companies who want to share their insights and advice on industry trends and topics. It’s a simple fact.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 15, 2020

Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, writes, “The coronavirus has disrupted U.S. companies in many ways, and nearly three-fourths of them have seen their supply chain significantly affected.”[1] The pandemic exposes the vulnerability of companies that rely heavily on a limited number of trading partners.

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

For high-tech and semiconductors in particular, the risk of a factory fire is high due to the highly flammable materials used in semiconductor manufacturing: combustible plastic materials, flammable and pyrophoric chemicals, and high-voltage electrical power. There have also been numerous business sales in 2023 so far.

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NC State SCRC

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Taiwan hosts the majority of the major Original Design Manufacturers, who in turn rely on supply chains that are entirely based in Taiwan and China. Contract manufacturers are very reliant on semiconductors produced in Taiwan. For these reasons, converting Arizona into the next Taiwan Silicon Valley is multi-decade proposal!

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

The “Top 15 Supply Chains to Admire” is the culmination of a two-year effort to evaluate supply chain performance and improvement for the years of 2006-2013 by industry by vertical for publicly-held companies. Supply Chain Visibility Panel Details: “Getting Information from a Variety of Systems into One Location to Extract Information”.

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Supply Chain Network

DECEMBER 4, 2017

The theme of the event, held February 25-28 in Phoenix, Arizona, is Reinventing the Retail Supply Chain: Accelerating What’s Possible. RILA is the trade association of the worlds largest and most innovative retail companies. To learn more about the 2018 Retail Supply Chain Conference, visit the conference website. About RILA.

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o9 Solutions

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

As the US opened back up for tourism, it came time to plan a road trip through Arizona. According to the Motley Fool, rental car companies turnover their fleets, on average, every 13 months. Then, factor in the automotive manufacturer’s lead time of over 12 weeks to build a new car, and it takes roughly 7 months to get a new car.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

More recently, the massive scale of China’s solar-manufacturing operations has become an advantage, as it attracts talent, research money and ecosystems of suppliers. is trying to build its own solar-manufacturing supply chain almost from scratch and supporting the effort with sizable subsidies. The bosses of A.P.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2014

Supply Chain Excellence as defined by a methodology whereall companies are put into a spreadsheet and compared across industries is meaningless. During the period of 2006-2012, Campbell Soup Company outperformed its peer group on the Supply Chain Index. In this blog, we share an interview with Dave Biegger, SVP of Campbell Soup.

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AFFLINK

APRIL 18, 2018

You might think, for example, that companies are struggling to find places to store their goods or that the cost of building warehouses and hiring employees negates the growing sales. A white paper by the Arizona State University W.P. percent in 2013 to a projected 10 percent in 2018. feet, Supply Chain Dive reported.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 20, 2014

However, what is clear from our recent study of 73 manufacturers using supply chain planning is that companies using best-of-breed solutions implement faster, achieve a quicker Return-on-Investment (ROI), and are more satisfied. These companies were merged into other entities and/or changed their names. Or accidental?

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Stord

MARCH 31, 2019

This Express Lane initiative – the company’s name for new tools and solutions – has placed materials closer to factories, reduced manufacturing delays, and predicted customer demand more accurately. This facility, located in Goodyear, Arizona, supports 40% of the co-op’s stores. Department of Energy.

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