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Global Manufacturing Activity Levels Stabilize in February

Supply Chain Matters

Global Manufacturing Activity Levels Global manufacturing activity as reported by the J.P. Morgan Manufacturing PMIĀ® , compiled by S&P Global in association with ISM and IFPSM , halted a consecutive five-months of contraction levels to that of no-change. The S&P Global US Manufacturing PMIĀ® had a February value of 47.3,

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Using Digital Supply Chain Planning to Respond to Market-Changing Disruptions like COVID-19

ToolsGroup

Being able to understand if supply expected from Europe needs to be re-routed and sourced from Asia or South America is important when entire channels become unavailable. One US-based ToolsGroup manufacturing customer sources parts from several Chinese and Italian suppliers.

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A Logistics Conversation with Arcadia Cold, Part 1

BlueYonder

over to Asia for example, where they further process seafood into a consumer-packaged unit and then it is shipped back to the U.S. I initially worked in High Tech manufacturing for a microchip manufacturer and an electronics manufacturing group, where I cut my teeth on logistics. for storage.

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Is It Time to Concentrate on Climate Adaptation?

Enterra Insights

Millions of people in Asia, in cities like Mumbai, Beijing, and Tokyo, would be uprooted and have to move inland. South America would say goodbye to cities like Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires. .”[3] If all that ice melted, he notes, “Lots of European cities like, Brussels and Venice, would be basically underwater.

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Out of Africa

Supply Chain Shaman

Supply chain talent is primarily coming from North America and Europe, but these are the continents that represent the lowest levels of growth for supply chain 2020 (see figure 1). Most global multinational companies have a solid base now in South America and Asia, but the race is on for Africa.

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The History of the Shipping Container

Freightos

The beginning of the Asia-Advanced Economies trade boom. Export manufacturing starts moving away from ports. Asia, South Africa, Australia/NZ, North America and South America are all largely containerized. Nascent Asian-US trade drives the return service. 0 TEUs 0 meters long. 0 TEUs 0 meters long.

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Three Months after Tianjin, the Area is Still Reeling.

Elementum

Chinaā€™s Tianjin port suffered a devastating explosion in August which left many manufacturers, insurers and shipping supply chains crippled. To mitigate the investment and production loss in Tianjin, JLR has planned new production centers in continental Europe and South America. We take a look at the lasting consequences.