Exiger Perspectives

JULY 14, 2023

The New Trade Controls Will Likely Prompt Companies to Identify Alternative Sourcing Methods China’s move to restrict exports of two metals used in chipmaking and other goods poses a new threat to global supply chains, and makers of consumer electronics, solar cells, and semiconductors could see disruptions soon. In the U.S.,

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 2, 2020

China says almost all of its major industrial companies have resumed production and that its ports are again running at near-full capacity after a two-month Coronavirus-linked shutdown. When it comes to air freight, global capacity is down 22 percent compared to last year, with further declines expected. Air Freight. Ocean Freight.

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

To meet this demand and ensure a sustainable supply chain, Australia, Chile , China, and Brazil are proactively ramping up their lithium production. The decreasing cost of lithium, which dropped by 35% from $66,123 in June 2022 to $42,650 in June 2023, is worth noting, as it underscores the expanding global production capacity.

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ModusLink Corporation

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Carrier rates are declining across the board, and Seatrade Maritime News reported an “expected trough of freight rates to mid-2023 from 2024 with a lower demand forecast and a higher than expected effective capacity increase due to the unwinding of congestion. KPMG Australia. 12 October 2022. 30 November 2022. <[link]. <[link].

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 29, 2021

Australia too sent immediate support package of ventilators, oxygen tanks and PPE Kits. High capacity oxygen tankers were airlifted from UAE. The USISPF through donations from its member companies also sourced 1,00, 000 portable oxygen concentrators for home and hospital use.

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Freight Plus

JULY 17, 2020

He then decided he wanted a career change and moved to pharmaceutical manufacturing in Australia. Following this, he ended up working for a business in Australia called Logistics Bureau. Let's discuss Coronavirus from the logistics point of view - what was your experience with coronavirus over in Australia?

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Freight Plus

JULY 17, 2020

He then decided he wanted a career change and moved to pharmaceutical manufacturing in Australia. Following this, he ended up working for a business in Australia called Logistics Bureau. Let's discuss Coronavirus from the logistics point of view - what was your experience with coronavirus over in Australia?

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Resilinc

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Geopolitical conflict with Australia—source of 10% of China’s coal imports—have contributed to the coal shortage. Some rate increases have been allowed in the last weeks, but it’s unclear how much generation capacity can be increased given the coal shortages.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 20, 2022

to Australia are wrestling with a shortage of chemicals used in X-rays, while real-estate projects are held up by delayed materials. Bloomberg reporters note, “While ‘supply chain disruption’ is emerging once more as the most repeated phrase of corporate earnings season, the impact goes beyond multinationals’ profits.

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Unleashed

MAY 22, 2022

Dairy alternatives haven’t, so they’ve outgrown the capacity globally of manufacturers.” So our business in Australia is much more developed, and we are 100% grocery distribution in the duopoly of Woollies and Coles. “In The lesson? SMEs need to walk the line between aligning with category growth and running out of stock.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 7, 2017

MercuryGate Announces Dynamic Exchange Offering Faster, Easier Access to Capacity. Blackbay, headquartered in the UK with offices in Australia and New Zealand, will fully integrate with the global BluJay team. In this week’s supply chain and logistics news… BluJay Solutions Acquires Leading Mobility Solutions Provider Blackbay.

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NC State SCRC

APRIL 22, 2022

But nobody is talking about the supply chain for these vehicles, and the capacity required to build them. And is there enough capacity to produce the new types of vehicles? The winners are the electrostates: first Australia which has all of the metals in the green seven; Second Chile (which has 42%. They go out of business?

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Gone are the days of manual data entry and the need for humans to aggregate and analyze data from multiple sources. The solutions optimize source, make and deliver within silos, but lack the ability to drive alignment and improve agility. ” Automation and autonomous vehicles. This includes your supply chain.”[6]

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 11, 2022

As our production volumes continue to grow, it is becoming increasingly challenging to secure vehicle transportation capacity and at a reasonable cost during these peak logistics weeks. Further reported is that BYD continues with its global expansion plan by consummating partnerships with in-country dealers across Europe and Australia.

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SupplyShift

JANUARY 7, 2022

Ideally, procurement teams should be consulted at this stage as they are likely to do most of the sourcing and ensure compliance. Performing assessments to ensure compliance with any regional modern slavery legislation (such as in California, France, United Kingdom, or Australia).

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

The August report cited new order intakes declining for the second consecutive month with indications that excess capacity may be building among the global manufacturing sector. The top three regions exhibiting PMI growth were noted as India, Australia and Thailand. The bottom three were listed as Poland , Taiwan and Myanmar.

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SupplyShift

JANUARY 7, 2022

Ideally, procurement teams should be consulted at this stage as they are likely to do most of the sourcing and ensure compliance. Once your internal policies are squared away, you can begin assessing suppliers to get a better sense of their standing.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 3, 2021

Supply chains are continually disrupted by container shortages, a lack of air freight capacity, and movement restrictions implemented by governments to combat the pandemic. Woolworths (Australia). Coles (Australia). Kmart (Australia). Localising, nearshoring, and reshoring inventory sources. Tesco (UK).

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

OCTOBER 17, 2022

However, measures such as alternative factories, dual sourcing and more generous safety stocks go against the well-versed philosophy of lean supply chains that has prevailed in recent decades,” he says. Inventory and Capacity Buffers. Increasing buffer capacity is a straightforward way to enhance resilience. Multi-Sourcing.

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Unleashed

MAY 10, 2022

The benefits of this are huge, however, given the ability to source materials and products at more competitive prices in some jurisdictions, as well as the fact that different skill-sets and labour are available.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 25, 2022

A growing global warehouse capacity crunch. Fruit and vegetable shortages in Australia. Indeed, companies in the United States, Italy, Canada, Brazil, Australia, and China are already experiencing difficulties arising from t ier 2 supply interruptions. Warehouse Capacity Under Pressure. The grain blockaded in Ukraine.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 9, 2020

China’s decision to quarantine the city of Wuhan, where the virus was first detected, and to close factories, enforce massive lockdowns, and institute surveillance measures countrywide, has caused disruptions in Australia’s outbound supply chains. How Australia’s Reliance on China has Evolved. Source Australian Bureau of Statistics.

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Unleashed

AUGUST 18, 2021

Not every manufacturer will have the capacity to recycle returned goods, but businesses are innovating to find new ways of recycling. Kua Coffee Kua Coffee is a social enterprise in Sydney, Australia, that employs reverse logistics to make its practices more sustainable. 3 examples) 1.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 19, 2021

In my time heading up logistics and fulfillment at Tile, our team opened Australia and UK DCs, upgraded the US operation significantly, and changed out all of our carriers (import and outbound parcel) to reduce cost and improve service levels. What are you working on these days? I spent 2020 asking, “Why?”

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The framework covers: freight traffic intensity choice of freight transport mode capacity utilisation energy efficiency switching to low carbon energy There is no “silver bullet” instead a bundle of decarbonisation enablers needs to be activated. Open source is a way to spread the benefits of these technologies.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 15, 2021

Essentially, demand for deliveries skyrocketed yet the capacity of delivery firms shrunk. However, even pre-COVID, the APAC region has faced a number of major interruptions to the supply chain, mostly driven by extreme weather events – typhoons in Japan, bushfires in Australia or mass flooding in the Philippines.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 22, 2022

The two new prototypes are both based on the Hummingbird, which Wing says can carry about 2 pounds and has made hundreds of thousands of deliveries in Dallas suburbs, Virginia, Australia, and Finland. Customers in Singapore will also benefit from increased European inbound capacity. East/Gulf Coast ports were up 40.3

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 10, 2022

”[2] The lead researcher of the study, Professor Colin Binns from the Curtin School of Population Health in Australia, states, “Climate change has had a detrimental impact on health and food production for the past 50 years, and far more needs to be done to overcome its adverse effects.” ”[9].

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ToolsGroup

AUGUST 12, 2022

By connecting their systems and utilizing a single source of truth for operational inventory, they can get real-time data on how transactions are affecting inventory levels across locations. Customer data is also available through a variety of other sources, such as customer loyalty programs and POS data. Inventory Visibility.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JUNE 30, 2022

Sourcing, manufacturing and consumption models will continue to evolve and the supply chain industry is positioned as a strategic partner to support companies in rationalising future decisions. Today, a dominance of production and sourcing is considered far-sourcing, driven by attractive labour rates in Asia.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 17, 2018

Kuebix Announces New Service to Provide Shippers More Truckload Rates and Available Capacity. Any Parcel capacity providers not already on the network can be integrated in just two short weeks, free of charge. BluJay Acquires UK Customs Solution Provider, Grosvenor Systems. project44 Launches Global Parcel Visibility.

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Resilinc

JANUARY 2, 2024

However, with geopolitical situations and increased legislation causing sourcing disruptions, companies and governments are under pressure to find ways to mitigate risk and achieve better visibility into their multi-tier supply networks. I took part in a round table in DC a couple of months ago with AUKUS—Australia, U.K.,

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Resilinc

APRIL 19, 2022

Not only are these minerals necessary for a wide range of products and industrial processes, they are also essential for a transition to low-carbon energy sources (along with rare earth elements). manufacturers decided to source REEs from foreign countries. On March 31, President Biden ordered the U.S. Warning that the U.S.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 17, 2020

Even before the novel coronavirus outbreak, Thami Croeser and Lucy Gunn, researchers from the Center for Urban Research at RMIT University in Australia, report there were increasing calls for de-populating cities. The main argument, they write, is that “city living is unpleasant.

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Material Handling & Logistics

MAY 2, 2018

For organizations that source products from suppliers in remote regions, blockchain can provide clarity in an otherwise murky journey from harvest to retail. For organizations that source products from suppliers in remote regions, blockchain is an essential tool that can provide clarity in an otherwise murky journey from harvest to retail.

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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? Second, raw materials needed to assemble batteries are projected to be in short supply over the next decade as demand grows faster than extraction capacity.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Check out our roundup of nearly 100 digital logistics/supply chain sources. Cutting capacity hasn’t worked. Now, responding to a shortage of bricklayers in Australia, robots are building houses. Freight and logistics trends that rate in the news. DECEMBER 2015. We summarize key monthly trends in six sections.

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