Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 5, 2024

Slight Rise in Global Wide Production Activity Global-wide manufacturing levels as depicted in the J.P. Morgan Global Manufacturing PMI® was headlined with back-to-back expansion levels in February. The HSBC India Manufacturing PMI® rose from 56.5 Manufacturing Among the two reported PMI reports relative to U.S.

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QAD

MARCH 31, 2020

It’s a niche industry, but also one of the cornerstones of discrete parts manufacturing. They’re complex machines assembled from thousands of parts, many purchased from highly specialized manufacturers. ANCA builds their machines in Australia but these precision components are sourced from around the world.

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NC State SCRC

JULY 28, 2019

Low-cost country (LCC) sourcing is now a commonplace strategy for shrinking bottom line labor and material costs in most consumer products industries, including apparel, footwear, toys, and other manufactured products. Dow Chemical, for example, considers environmental concerns a critical feature of its policies and procedures.3

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QAD

MAY 18, 2023

The automotive industry is undergoing a massive technological transformation toward vehicle electrification and the shift presents huge opportunities for manufacturers that do business in the US, especially since the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act in August 2022.

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EMERGE App

JULY 11, 2018

Google a phrase like “sourcing products from China” and you’ll instantly be faced by almost 39 million results! This underscores the importance of China being the world’s manufacturing hub in the past decade, and most likely for the next few decades. Introduction. Products are the lifeline of your business.

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

In India, the national Production Linked Incentive (PLI) is set to encourage domestic EV manufacturing—and this is just a glimpse of the latest policies worldwide. To meet this demand and ensure a sustainable supply chain, Australia, Chile , China, and Brazil are proactively ramping up their lithium production.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Notice how the water turns from blue to brown in Figure 3 with the lack of demand translation capabilities within the enterprise for manufacturing and logistics. Orchestration enables companies to effectively manage trade-offs between source, make, deliver and sell.) I give you this evidence in this blog.). Mistake #5.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 25, 2022

As part of our ongoing commitment to keep our blog readers updated on what’s happening in the supply chain and logistics world, we’re launching a regular industry news roundup, which we’ll release periodically. Fruit and vegetable shortages in Australia. The grain blockaded in Ukraine.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Having invested massively in safety stock to try and beat the pandemic’s substantial supply chain disruptions, ecommerce retailers like Australia’s Kogan.com are now dealing with the fallout as demand softens. Such is the picture in Australia’s retail environment. A Tense Future for Renault’s Supply Chain.

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Resilinc

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Mike Beckham, CEO of bottle and travel mug manufacturer Simple Modern, told the Wall Street Journal that a major Chinese supplier in Quzhou City had been forced to cut its workweek to four days and trim its electricity usage by a third. As described in earlier blog posts , there are compelling reasons to keep production in China.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MAY 18, 2022

‘A new, end-to-end synchronized supply network is needed, where suppliers, manufacturing sites, customers and experts’ partner efficiently within a seamless ecosystem. While this utopia sounds far-stretched for some, it also illustrates the possibilities presented to manufacturers and distributors by Industry 4.0. experience.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 12, 2023

The Supply Chain Matters blog features our May 12, 2023 edition of This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech , a synopsis capsule of noteworthy supply chain management focused technology news. and Australia based Allkem Ltd. Bob Ferrari © Copyright 2023, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog.

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Resilinc

MARCH 14, 2023

Key goals of the blueprint are to improve raw material sourcing, supply domestic processing of lithium, and encourage recycling lithium. From where will the US source materials? Currently, the US significantly lags behind other countries, particularly in two areas: manufacturing knowledge and access to raw and refined materials.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MAY 18, 2022

‘A new, end-to-end synchronized supply network is needed, where suppliers, manufacturing sites, customers and experts’ partner efficiently within a seamless ecosystem. While this utopia sounds far-stretched for some, it also illustrates the possibilities presented to manufacturers and distributors by Industry 4.0. experience.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Source: Bloomberg.com. The demand for retail workers to fill positions in stores, warehouses, and the manufacturing plants of vertically integrated retailers is not decreasing anytime soon. Check out 4 Concrete Tactics to Combat Employee Turnover and Source Staff →. Where Are All the Retail Workers?

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 19, 2024

Treasury Department along with governmental agencies in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and the European Union. The Company currently expects to break ground in the first half of 2024. © Copyright 2024, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. governmental agencies to include U.S.

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QAD

JULY 6, 2021

The company’s headquarters are in Australia, but it exports more than 99 percent of its products to customers in more than 45 countries. and South America, the company is a thriving global manufacturer. ANCA needed a process for a single source of information that the company and their suppliers could rely on. ANCA Pty Ltd.

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Jaggaer

JANUARY 22, 2019

In our last blog post we examined the factors impacting the 2019 economic climate in the United States. Alternatively, the UK could unilaterally announce free trade, which could have negative impacts on British manufacturing. Either profit margins will suffer or EU companies may stop manufacturing in the UK.

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Arena Solutions

APRIL 20, 2021

In 2020 alone, there were record-breaking wildfires in California and Australia, crops decimated by swarming locusts across parts of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, not to mention frequent occurrences of hurricanes, floods, and heat waves. With GHG emissions on the rise, we continue to experience the devastating effects of global warming.

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NC State SCRC

JULY 8, 2016

Raw materials are sourced from one country, products are manufactured in another country, and the final goods are transported to customers all over the world. The recent election in Australia could result in a hung parliament and the return of Pauline Hanson to the senate. What happens if NAFTA is renegotiated?

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2017

As an example, one location might be the place where you source raw materials or where you source goods from a manufacturing facility. That might mean transporting something from a manufacturer to a distributor, or from a distributor to a customer. How Would you Define “Transport” and Transportation?

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Further reported is that BYD continues with its global expansion plan by consummating partnerships with in-country dealers across Europe and Australia. © Copyright 2022, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. Reader Takeaways. No company seems immune. Bob Ferrari. All rights reserved. . .

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Industrial Manufacturing. Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. View all Infosys blogs. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Automotive. Financial Services.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 14, 2023

In a blog post, Yum noted it is transitioning away from plastics and developing new packaging solutions as part of that policy. The chain has also purchased most of its paper-based packaging with fiber from responsibly managed forests and recycled sources. Today, Huntsville Utilities, Toyota Alabama and Toyota Tsusho America, Inc.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The goal is to create redundant sources based on supplier-specific and country-of-origin, to ensure that each product category has redundancy as a form of insurance on the supply chain. Andrew Partis shared his views from ThermoFisher, a global contrat manufacturer for the pharmaceutical industry.

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QAD

JULY 14, 2020

Several studies show that Australia has the largest home sizes in the world, as shown by the graph below. Source: The Globe and Mail. Sustainable Manufacturing. 007 metric tons per capita, but Nepal has little manufacturing, and much of that is agrarian. . Sustainability is the Responsibility of Each Manufacturer.

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NC State SCRC

JUNE 15, 2016

Today’s guest blog is posted by Timothy Barnes, who I met through the SCRC. Tim is a global supply chain executive originally from Australia, who has been studying the evolution of the Trans Pacific Partnership closely, and is writing a book on the subject.

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NC State SCRC

APRIL 22, 2022

What will happen to those manufacturers that can’t or won’t convert? The authors then used industry sources to project demand and revenue for thee fossil fuels (oil, gas, coal) vs. seven “green” metals (aluminum, cobalt, copper, lithium, nickel, silver and zinc) that are critical to building an energy economy.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 21, 2017

If you’ve been following the fortunes of Kmart Australia, you’ll know that it’s a company enjoying good fortunes after a tremendous turnaround a few years ago, in which a change of supply chain strategy played a major part. An Introduction: and a Little Disambiguation.

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QAD

JULY 14, 2020

Several studies show that Australia has the largest home sizes in the world, as shown by the graph below. Source: The Globe and Mail. Sustainable Manufacturing. 007 metric tons per capita, but Nepal has little manufacturing, and much of that is agrarian. . Sustainability is the Responsibility of Each Manufacturer.

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QAD

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

In addition to its economic might, Japan has long been a model for manufacturers throughout the world. Manufacturing in Japan. Though, as the country has relied less on nuclear energy and imported fuels, thermal power has become the country’s largest energy source. Australia, South Korea and Saudi Arabia. of Japan’s GDP.

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EMERGE App

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

At the end of this blog post, we hope that you appreciate the steps, twists and turns that are involved in importing goods from abroad. This should serve as a general framework to source products from different countries according to their strengths. Australia , for example, prohibits the import of dangerous dog breeds.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 31, 2022

If you follow the Logistics Bureau blog, you might recall that we have, once or twice, made passing reference to the concept of the circular supply chain , primarily in our articles focused on developing trends in the supply chain and logistics sector. Anyone in sourcing who buys large quantities of copper will already know what I mean.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 23, 2017

The situation is changing however, as more and more MHE manufacturers bring warehouse robotics to market. The first driverless car trials in Australia took place in Adelaide last year and automated trucks have already been a reality in Western Australia’s mining industry for some years. Best Regards. Rob O’Byrne.

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EMERGE App

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

At the end of this blog post, we hope that you appreciate the steps, twists and turns that are involved in importing goods from abroad. This should serve as a general framework to source products from different countries according to their strengths. Australia , for example, prohibits the import of dangerous dog breeds.

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2014

China’s rising cost and China’s RMB appreciation have motivated some western firms to source their products from other low-cost countries in South-East Asia. Walmart, H&M, Mango, and Adidas) to source their apparel products due to its low labor cost (US$ 2 per day) and loose or unenforced regulations. 

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The Lean Supply Chain

JULY 7, 2015

Actual Systems has successfully expanded beyond North America and penetrated Australia, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Ireland and Spain.  Who are the top vendors ( called “Best of breed” ) on the market? Manufacturing trucking assets that move between buildings are monitored using YMS. YMS vendors : High Jump.

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