Supply Chain View from the Field

DECEMBER 16, 2013

I’ve had the good fortune to be presented with opportunities for compelling discussions with a significant group of leading thinkers, senior executives in procurement, logistics, and technology management over this past year. With globalization, the need to partner with local logistics service providers becomes an imperative.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The regions reported as having the most declines in production volumes were noted as Brazil, Canada, Japan , and the United Kingdom. The now reported September and Q3 PMI data continues to reinforce a period of muted product demand levels among multiple industry sectors.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

These are, historically, the biggest disruptors that occur in our industry: Chinese New Year (aka Spring Festival). The 9 th annual BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) summit is being held in Xiamen September 3-5, 2017 (the summit location rotates between its member countries). BRICS summit.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 25, 2024

Workers from picking and packing to planning and procurement are in short supply, stimulating interest in increasing productivity of the existing workforce. Consider a planner in Brazil working with the previous lead time prediction example, who has forgotten how to update the parameters.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Technology can have a significant impact on supply chains, but supply chain digitization still lags behind digitization of other areas of business across many industries. Cloud technology allows organizations to combine all supply chain and logistics information into a single, central solution. That’s an increase from 17% in 2017.

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QAD

APRIL 4, 2023

Updates in the past few months address new requirements for Brazil, India, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, United States and other global regions. With this release, an integration with QAD EQMS is available to feed QAD SRM supplier ratings with quality and logistics related data, strengthening supplier management decision-making.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 5, 2024

These latter two dimensions are a reflection of overall multi-industry supply network activity levels and momentum. Output reportedly rose in China, India, Brazil and the United States , while declines continued in the Eurozone , Japan and the United Kingdom. The February 2024 reading of 50.3 compared to a January reading of 50.0,

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6 River Systems

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The world of supply chain and logistics is changing every day. Each one is featured as having done something unique to reinvent their supply chain and logistics. Coyote Logistics @CoyoteLogistics Coyote Logistics prides itself on its innovative logistics and supply chain philosophy.

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EcoVadis

DECEMBER 8, 2019

PARIS/NEW YORK – (December 11, 2019) — EcoVadis , the world’s leading provider of sustainability ratings, today announces its sustainable procurement partnership with Klabin , Brazil’s largest paper and board producer and exporter. Founded in 1899, it has 18 industrial units in Brazil and one in Argentina.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

OCTOBER 14, 2015

The conference was a great opportunity to interact with logistics and procurement executives in an environment of open dialogue and discussion. All of a sudden, everyone is “knocking on the door” of procurement and logistics, asking for cost improvements.

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6 River Systems

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Technology can have a significant impact on supply chains, but supply chain digitization still lags behind digitization of other areas of business across many industries. Cloud technology allows organizations to combine all supply chain and logistics information into a single, central solution. That’s an increase from 17% in 2017.

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Resilinc

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

While supply chains are starting to stabilize, Resilinc hopes the pandemic’s lessons will lead procurement and supply chain managers to shift to more regionalized sourcing models. and global OEMs have optimized and globalized sourcing and procurement to reduce labor and other input costs. Over the past 40 years, U.S.

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Jaggaer

JANUARY 22, 2019

and the European Union and examines how procurement organisations can best prepare in the new year. With Brexit looming and the possibility of World Trade Organisation rules coming into effect in UK/EU trade, the European procurement and supply chain markets look unsteady. Primarily, what will the future trade agreement look like?

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Resilinc

JULY 25, 2023

Sidney has over three decades of global direct and indirect procurement and supplier management experience. As Head of Procurement at Harman International to VP of Global Supply Chain Management at Aptiv, we learned about this supply chain thought leader’s extensive experience in the world of supply chain and procurement.

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Resilinc

JULY 20, 2021

In the decades since, Linton and his teams at IBM, LG, Flex and other companies have driven billions in annual procurement to China and other Asian countries, helping to create the Asia-centric manufacturing supply chains of today. Logistics infrastructure needed. There’s already some of that in Puerto Rico and Brazil.”.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 26, 2021

Some of the most notable include: Steve Madden , shoe and bag retailer: Moving production to Cambodia, Brazil, Mexico, and Vietnam. Although there is little evidence that the incentive has stimulated re-shoring to any great extent, some 900 Japanese companies have chosen to begin procuring supplies from countries other than China.

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Elementum

APRIL 4, 2018

And these were just the first industries to be affected. Called “the first of many” trade actions against China, the taxes will target technology used in aerospace, computing, and communications, among other industries. The solar industry, which relies on imported parts for 80 percent of its supply, is more vulnerable.

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Elementum

APRIL 4, 2018

And these were just the first industries to be affected. Called “the first of many” trade actions against China, the taxes will target technology used in aerospace, computing, and communications, among other industries. The solar industry, which relies on imported parts for 80 percent of its supply, is more vulnerable.

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