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Global Manufacturing Activity Levels Continue to Stabilize in March and Q1-2023

Supply Chain Matters

However, we discern some added signs excess inventories and of production sourcing shifts. Global Manufacturing Activity Levels Global manufacturing activity as reported by the J.P. From our lens, the latter is evidence of recessionary manufacturing conditions that are now stabilizing. That stated, the reported 49.6

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GrandVision: “We are changing completely as we become demand driven”

Supply Chain Movement

the world’s largest network of optical retail stores is far along the path from historically being supplier-led to having a strong demand driven supply chain. After that it quickly went on to buy many other optical retailers including the French based, multinational GrandVision SA in 2005. Grandvision has grand plans.

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Who said supply chains are boring?: AMR's Top 25 Highs and Lows

Supply Chains Rock

One company I am glad to not see in the list this year is Zara, the Spanish clothing retailer. I still have bitter memories of all the T-Mobile shops in Austria running out of iPhones on the launch day. Manufacturing Central. Apple continues to hold the #1 spot. ILOG Supply Chain Applications BLOG. Industrial Interface.

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Eco-friendly Food Packaging: 8 Trends in Food & Bev Explained

Unleashed

73% of consumers say they ‘”definitely or probably” will change their consumption habits to reduce their environmental impact ( Nielsen ), presenting a huge opportunity for food manufacturers. This means they are backed up by a authoritative certification, such as: The European OK Compost Home standard (from TÜV Austria).

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Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech- May 12 2023

Supply Chain Matters

On May 4, we featured for readers the industry breaking news that Flexport will acquire the logistics the logistics fulfillment operations of online retail platform provider Shopify. In this edition, we include six added news capsule events that has occurred across the supply chain technology spectrum: Livent Corp. to Combine with Allkem Ltd.

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The History and State of Vehicle Routing!

Supply Chain Game Changer

On top of that we have all other forms of economic growth, the expansion of outsourcing and global sourcing, all of which drive ever increasing demand on the over the road transportation of goods. The movement of goods between manufacturers, distribution centres, warehouses, retailers and consumers is happening at unprecedented levels.

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The Great Maersk Shift

Freightos

The following is a 5,000 word exploration of Maersk’s strategic shift to end-to-end logistics services, based on open sources. Other sources reported that DB Schenker was not the only forwarder making this shift. This spans platform companies connecting fashion manufacturers or commodity traders directly to the buyers.