Supply Chain Matters

JULY 6, 2023

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights and perspectives on reported June 2023 and Q2-2023 quarterly global and regional PMI indices. Global Manufacturing Activity Levels Global manufacturing activity as reported by the J.P. Global Manufacturing Activity Levels Global manufacturing activity as reported by the J.P.

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Freightos

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

In addition to the terrible human cost, the virus is also sending ripples throughout the global supply chain. China’s efforts to control the spread of the virus at the end of January started with shutting down the Yangtze River port city of Wuhan, an industrial city of 11 million people that ships 1.5 The (Digital) Rise of SMBs.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The award, based on beating the industry peer group on rate of improvement on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) while outperforming their peer group, is tough to achieve. Based in Paris, L’Oréal is a global personal care manufacturing company.

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Freightos

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Special thanks to Lars Jensen, CEO at Sea Intelligence Consulting and Zvi Schreiber, CEO of Freightos Group for their input and insights for this report. . It’s hard to predict what demand will be like for products like these ahead of time. More home purchases and home offices meant new home furnishings. It worked. .

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

More on Maersk’s transition to an end-to-end provider can be found in this 2020 report. On the horizontal carrier integration front, Maersk has doubled down on its extension from ocean consolidation (Hamburg Sud, 2017) to air cargo, increasing Maersk Air by 33% with three leased cargo planes and two new Boeing purchases.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Special thanks to Lars Jensen, CEO at Sea Intelligence Consulting and Zvi Schreiber, CEO of Freightos Group for their input and insights for this report. It’s hard to predict what demand will be like for products like these ahead of time. More home purchases and home offices meant new home furnishings.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 27, 2020

In many critical supply areas, such as biopharma, the now famous PPE, and high technology medical devices, not just calls, but screams for re-examining supply lines and explicitly, our reliance on China. With calls to shorten our supply lines and to become less reliant on China, comes tough questions. Not so fast….

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Pivot88

APRIL 17, 2017

For many years, many strategic sourcing and procurement professionals have been using the cost reduction playbook as a guide for all of their sourcing and procurement activities. THE GAME CHANGER…VALUE PROCUREMENT. Procurement officers are under pressure to deliver value added performance.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

I will be speaking and working with clients in wonderful locations in Brussels, China, Germany, London, Mexico, Peru, and South Africa. In the process I needed a visa for China, and I wandered into an old-fashioned photo shop to have my picture taken for the visa application. One of my clients waits four days for a custom report.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 3, 2023

To date, most of our content has covered topics related either to logistics or manufacturing outsourcing. Meanwhile, countries in Southeast Asia, such as Vietnam and Cambodia, are enjoying growth as offshore manufacturing centres.

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Requis

MAY 22, 2020

He is the Bank of America Distinguished Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management at NC State University, and is a prolific author of articles and books, most recently The LIVING Supply Chain (co-authored with Tom Linton). In the 1990s, purchasing managers were focusing on how to beat up their suppliers in order to buy cheaper.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 1, 2016

We will feature our 5 main categories all week: Logistics , Manufacturing , Supply Chain , Transportation , and Freight. In modern manufacturing and transportation, savings are everything. Most industry experts rate the cost of logistics as very costly. 5 Most Popular Freight Blog Posts of 2016.So So Far. . >>>Read

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Prior to 2018, when an ocean carrier booked a shipment they had to provide a chassis. Truck drivers report that maintenance issues are a constant nightmare. Manufacturers build “control towers” but there no network dial tone between parties to enable prescriptive analytics and alerting.). Why I Am Worried.

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Requis

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Today, as the founder and managing partner of USM Supply Chain Consultants she has put her expertise in supply chain, procurement, finance and project management to work to help her clients achieve greater profitability. In the end-to-end supply chain there’s procurement, logistics, operations, and warehousing.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Whether you''re a manufacturing company in China, a sourcing agent in London or a world''s leading company in Silicon Valley, we''re all in a global supply chain networks. Therefore, a firm would be well served to develop a supply chain strategy as described in my book: Supply Chain Transformation.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 11, 2015

China Approves Merger of Cosco, China Shipping (WSJ- sub. According to a report in Re/code: The trailers won’t be used to deliver packages to customer doors. Establishing new hours-of-service supporting document (shipping documents, fuel purchase receipts, etc.) Strictly prohibiting commercial driver harassment.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Returning containers is an ongoing issue resulting in some manufacturers investigating a return to break-bulk shipping (container free). Prior to 2018, when an ocean carrier booked a shipment they had to provide a chassis. Truck drivers report that maintenance issues are a constant nightmare. Trade continues to be imbalanced.

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EMERGE App

JULY 16, 2018

These two e-commerce business models have really taken off in the past decade, helped no doubt by the resurgence of China as the world’s manufacturing hub, the app economy and the convenience of an always-on mobile web. For all purposes, the best place to find stuff is in China.

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EMERGE App

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Today your wholesale suppliers are likely to be from China. China’s manufacturing prowess and efficient supply chain make it the de facto production capital of the world. Nonetheless, verifying wholesale suppliers in China can be challenging because of language barriers, fraud, and geography. Introduction.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

APRIL 8, 2014

Industrial Manufacturing. Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. Abstract Technologies such as Social networking, mobile, analytics and cloud computing have been shaking the IT industry for past several years. Ironically, facebook is blocked in China.

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Zipline Logistics

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Tender rejections, a metric used to determine how much contracted freight is rejected and sent to the spot market, have been hovering around 25% for the past few months. Costco has reported strong sales since the spring, which currently shows no signs of slowing down. Since the end of April, rates have steadily climbed week over week.

Freight 52

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 18, 2024

That number is the highest reported since 2014, including the period of the Covid-19 pandemic during the years 2020 to 2023. Thus, this commentary will not be a regurgitation of media headlines and reporting. That is already occurring not only in mass media but industry focused reporting.

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Supply Chain Opz

JANUARY 7, 2013

Annual Report (SEC Filing) is analyzed and simplified supply chain processes are constructed as below, Supply Chain Planning at Apple Inc. Information from the annual report is also used to produce the Apple Supply Chain Map. Apple Inc purchases raw materials from various sources then get them shipped to an assembling plant in China.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Today only 12% of supply chain teams are driving improvement, performing better than their competitors and driving value (as determined by Price to Tangible Book Value). These architectures are evolving and will be deeply rooted in the evolution of prescriptive and cognitive analytics. 3) Rethinking Manufacturing.

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Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 11, 2017

A few years ago I purchased a sofa from a well-known furniture store. We have to order it from China,” was the answer from the sales assistant. But it only takes a ship two weeks to travel from China to Australia [where I live], so what is happening for the other 10 weeks?” For example, to ship goods from China to the U.S.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 5, 2017

In countless surveys over the past decade, manufacturers and retailers rank “improving supply chain visibility” as one of their top priorities. As reported in the Wall Street Journal last week: “Automotive value chains are international. N suppliers have manufacturing sites in a X mile radius of the epicenter. struck Vietnam.

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Zipline Logistics

JANUARY 6, 2020

Loads on the spot market, in which retailers and manufacturers buy trucking capacity as they need it, rather than through a contract, have fallen by a chilling 62.6% (in 2019),” according to an article published by Business Insider. Trucking Insurance Costs on the Rise. That half-year closure figure outpaces the entirety of 2018.

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Provenance

AUGUST 13, 2018

A report proposing three system solutions that could reshape the industry and set the clean energy technology sector on a path to sustainability. Read the short version of this report on Medium. Since the 1990s, China has supplied the lion’s share of the world’s demand for REEs. The result?

Modeling Software 56

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Freightos

JULY 23, 2015

Supply chain platform matching drop-ship retailers, manufacturers, distributors and freight forwarders. Log-book and tracking system for trucking companies, with app for drivers. China) primarily for SME shippers. Information and predictive analytics on vessel activity. shipping address for E-Commerce purchasing.

Logistics Network Optimization Software 120

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EMERGE App

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Or follow your savvy suppliers and manufacturers as they open production lines in another country. Just like looking for suppliers and manufacturers in China, you may have to apply the same principles and common sense in evaluating business partners. Repeat purchases beat finding new customers any time.

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EMERGE App

MAY 14, 2020

Books and volumes have been written about, for example, social media marketing and search engine optimisation alone. It has spawned countless books, consultants and companies in a very lucrative industry that is almost like a dark art. Web Analytics. When we talk about web analytics we are really referring to Google Analytics.

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EMERGE App

MAY 14, 2020

Books and volumes have been written about, for example, social media marketing and search engine optimisation alone. It has spawned countless books, consultants and companies in a very lucrative industry that is almost like a dark art. Web Analytics. When we talk about web analytics we are really referring to Google Analytics.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

I thought I understood all the major supply chain implications of the pandemic until I began reading Yossi Sheffi’s new book The New (Ab)Normal: Reshaping Business and Supply Chain Strategy beyond Covid-19. The potential supply chain impacts of this conflict dwarf any other supply chain news that might be reported. Oil Prices Jump.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 13, 2017

After decades of jobs moving overseas, the tide has turned in favor of reshoring , reports the Reshoring Initiative in its latest annual report. added 77,000 jobs in 2016, with an additional 13,000 reported for the previous six years, for a total of 338,000 manufacturing jobs reshored since 2010.

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BlueYonder

JUNE 1, 2018

Federal Reserve sees signs of manufacturing growth; Softbank Robotics gets ready to scale up their business; Brazil reaches a deal to end its truck drivers’ strike; and Alibaba leads a $1.38 Fed’s Beige Book Shows Manufacturing Gearing Up. According to a Federal Reserve report released Wednesday, most U.S.

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BlueYonder

JUNE 1, 2018

Federal Reserve sees signs of manufacturing growth; Softbank Robotics gets ready to scale up their business; Brazil reaches a deal to end its truck drivers’ strike; and Alibaba leads a $1.38 Fed’s Beige Book Shows Manufacturing Gearing Up. According to a Federal Reserve report released Wednesday, most U.S.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Yet all of the functions that we now associate with Supply Chain have been around for a very long time: Planning, Inventory Management, Logistics, Procurement and Purchasing, Warehousing and many more.”[2] ” Coining a term and defining the term are two different things.

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