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The World’s Most Vulnerable Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology won the Financial Time’s business book of the year award. While Apple designs the most advanced chips for their smartphones, only TSMC can manufacture them. These chips are currently manufactured at a single site in Taiwan.

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Global PMI Levels in August Remain Sluggish

Supply Chain Matters

The August numbers once again signal a continued downturn in global manufacturing conditions as output and new order rates continue to fall. The three specific regions of concern are the Eurozone, United Kingdom along with Taiwan. Global Wide Manufacturing Activity Levels Global manufacturing activity as reported by the J.P.

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September and Q3 Global PMI Levels Remain in Contraction

Supply Chain Matters

With the closing of the third quarter, the numbers once again signal added contraction in global manufacturing output as product demand levels weaken. The three specific regions of concern remain the Eurozone, United Kingdom, along with Taiwan. This index has now remained below the 50.0

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January 2023 PMI Reporting Points to Some Signs of Global Wide Easing

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters provides monthly highlight commentary and perspectives on published January 2023 global manufacturing PMI and supply chain activity indices. Our previous posting in this series of global wide manufacturing PMI highlights was in early January summarizing both December and Q4-2022 reported indices data. increased 0.4

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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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Who Should Be In The Winner’s Circle?

Supply Chain Shaman

Heavily booked and running from meeting to meeting, I was late. Only 29% of manufacturers easily manage total cost trade-offs. There is no correlation between technology or consulting partner selection and market capitalization or Price to Tangible Book. You know, the look of peers communicating the signal, you are late.)

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US Air Force Defense Acquisition and Contract Officers Come to NC State

NC State SCRC

We also looked at the supply chain for the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, and contemplated the net impact of a Chinese attack on Taiwan, and the devastation wrought on the global economy. We hope to host more Air Force acquisition officers here on campus in the future!