Cathy Roberson

MAY 25, 2025

The topic/report will be on the logistics M&A so far this year. The report will be available free for paid Substack subscribers but I’ll provide a summary and a link to the report in case you’re interested in either purchasing it separately or paying for an anuual subscribtion to my Substack articles.

Purchasing Skills 67

Purchasing Skills Negotiating Skills Price Reduction Vendor Strategies 67

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 24, 2025

This was evident in the apparel industry, where brands such as Nike faced delays after tariffs on Chinese textiles prompted a shift to suppliers in Vietnam and Bangladesh. With 2025 tariffs increasing component costs, Apple has accelerated efforts to diversify its supply chain. Department of Agriculture report estimated that U.S.

Price Reduction 97

Price Reduction Supply Chain Planning Software Cost Reduction Strategies Inventory Reduction 97

NC State SCRC

MAY 23, 2025

I recently learned that Walmart is currently moving all of their product shipments to June and July, in effect hoping to receive a bulk of their goods for 2025 prior to adoption of the tariffs in August on China, India, Bangladesh, Vietnam, and other Asian countries. Ocean freight lead times have also escalated to 65 days on average.

Negotiate Pricing 52

Negotiate Pricing Negotiating Skills Manufacturing Procurement Purchasing Skills 52

Material Handling & Logistics

MAY 2, 2018

billion metric tons—gets lost or wasted. What’s more, net food losses in developed countries (222 million metric tons) equate to nearly all of the food produced in Sub-Saharan Africa yearly (223 million metric tons). From the wholesale manufacturers in Iowa to the farmers in Bangladesh, change is coming.

Waste Reduction 91

Waste Reduction Food Procurement Analytics Vendor Strategies 91

Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 3, 2019

Sustainability is created in the textile factories of Bangladesh. As we’ve learned from Kotter’s 8 Step Change Model (hyperlink), utilized as a framework to implement and achieve organizational change, the first 2 steps to create change boil down to one thing: People. Gauge Output, Report and Refine. Suppliers and partners.

Sourcing Strategies 74

Sourcing Strategies Purchasing Skills Sourcing Sustainability 74

Jaggaer

APRIL 14, 2020

Define your procurement response strategy. Yet with the autobahns, motorways and highways largely free of traffic apart from freight, goods are generally getting through and we are yet to see long-term shortages of food and other essential items. Adapting to the present and future challenges of COVID-19.

Supply Chain Disruption 52

Supply Chain Disruption Europe Cost Reduction Strategies Material Savings 52

EMERGE App

JULY 16, 2018

Best of all, rather than bore you with a dry report and statistics on creating private label products for Amazon FBA, I will weave everything around a completely fictitious example, which might very well work for you in real life! She was going to extend her stay in Guangzhou anyway until she signed a purchase agreement.

Manufacturing Procurement 71

Manufacturing Procurement Purchasing Skills Just-in-Time Modeling Software 71