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Who Should Be In The Winner’s Circle?

Supply Chain Shaman

Heavily booked and running from meeting to meeting, I was late. After six months of analysis, we decided the best fit was the combination of growth, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital. Note that while the company drove improvement in margin, there is underperformance in inventory turns. The reason?

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From Globalization to Glocalization

Enterra Insights

.”[8] She also told participants, “Supply chain resiliency involves more than shifting from ‘just-in-time’ to ‘just-in-case’ inventory levels. Geopolitical risks, such as the Russo-Ukrainian War and U.S.-China ” At the same time, Wolf cautions we must not let the benefits of globalization be lost. .

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Recap: State of the Supply Chain in 2022, Live Chat with Tom Linton

Resilinc

Readers of Resilinc’s blog will likely be familiar with Tom Linton, the supply chain veteran, senior McKinsey advisor, member of Resilinc’s executive advisory board, and author (whose most recent book Flow: How the Best Supply Chains Thrive with co-author Rob Handfield is now available). Invasion of Taiwan and China Dependency.

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Global PMI Levels in August Remain Sluggish

Supply Chain Matters

The three specific regions of concern are the Eurozone, United Kingdom along with Taiwan. Continued Deterioration in Taiwan The August S&P Global Taiwan Manufacturing PMI® report was headlined with persistent deterioration in manufacturing conditions with production and new order volumes continuing to show a sharp fall.

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From Taiwan to the U.S.—Duty-free

3PL Insights

About half of the 132 containers filled with tires, were en route from Taiwan, headed to the East and West coast ports. “We Upon arrival at the warehouse, the containers were unloaded, inspected for damage, and inventoried by SKU and documentation. The inventory list had to be error-free otherwise FTZ status could be jeopardized.

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September and Q3 Global PMI Levels Remain in Contraction

Supply Chain Matters

The three specific regions of concern remain the Eurozone, United Kingdom, along with Taiwan. Reportedly, destocking activities increased with finished product and raw materials inventories decreasing by the end of the quarter. The reported September PMI reported value 49.1 was relatively unchanged from the 49.0 reflecting a 0.4

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Comparing the 2023 National Defense Industrial Strategy (NDIS): A Critique and Comparison to Supply Chain Immunity

NC State SCRC

Dan Finkenstadt used his Chat GPT programs to analyze the NDIS and compare it to the recommendations developed in our book, Supply Chain Immunity: Overcoming our Nation’s Sourcing Sickness in a Post-Covid World. We will need to establish real-time visibility into inventory and material, and be able to react to unexpected events as they occur.