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Disruptive advice

Supply Chain Movement

The current digital revolution is even causing management consultancy firm McKinsey to recruit a different kind of person: mainly data analysts who do not work under the rigid ‘up or out’ policy but instead follow a ‘grow or go’ model. According to A.T. Incidentally, company founder Christoph Hardt has a doctorate in supply chain management.

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

Supply Chain Matters

The PMI values reflective of Germany and Austria both reached 34-month lows in March while both led in the expansion of post-production inventories. Manufacturing output volumes reportedly grew marginally in March. Further concerning was that the volume of warehouse finished goods inventories rose to the greatest extent in four months.

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Who said supply chains are boring?: Mini Supply Chain Problems at.

Supply Chains Rock

Another interesting supply chain point about the Mini Countryman is that it is being made in Styria, Austria, land of delicious pumpkin seed oil -- trust me it is delicious. Public Policy & Sustainability Blog. I am told they should arrive on Saturday, but I am hearing that not everyone is so lucky. Latin American Logistics.

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September and Q3 Global PMI Levels Remain in Contraction

Supply Chain Matters

Reportedly, with the exception of Greece , all other EU countries registered PMI declines, with Germany and Austria having the fastest rates of production declines. Zhao Qinghe, a senior NBS official, indicated in a statement that “ positive factors in economic performance increased in September as policies have started to take effect. ”

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This Week in Logistics News (January 27-31, 2014)

Talking Logistics

Robinson Opens Austria Office. ” Gary Hufbauer, senior trade expert at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, put it best in a quote from the Wall Street Journal : “[Reid’s opposition] is a one-two punch against trade policy.”. Trucking Leaders React to the State of the Union.

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Who said supply chains are boring?: Mission Impossible

Supply Chains Rock

Living in Switzerland and before now in Austria it is much, much easier to find locally manufactured products from pens and pencils to clothes. Public Policy & Sustainability Blog. While, yes I live in Switzerland, for some reason its much cheaper to buy in the US. Why should you care? Latin American Logistics. MIT Supply Chain 2020.

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

Supply Chains Rock

I still have bitter memories of all the T-Mobile shops in Austria running out of iPhones on the launch day. Public Policy & Sustainability Blog. While they are second to none in getting clothes from the catwalk to the shop floor, they suffer in quality and anyone that shops at Zara would back me up here. Toyota is also curious at #10.